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«Fühlen uns nicht gehört»: Tennis-Star Bencic fordert bei den French Open mehr Geld

Blick.ch - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 17:24
Die Stars machen an den French Open ihre Boykott-Drohung wahr – und kritisieren im Preisgeld-Streit wiederholt die Veranstalter. Auch Belinda Bencic hat eine starke Meinung dazu.

Először találkozott személyesen a magyar és az ukrán külügyminiszter

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 15:30
Először találkozott személyesen Orbán Anita magyar és Andrij Szibiha ukrán külügyminiszter, és megállapodtak, hogy a jövő héten folytatódnak a kétoldalú szakértői konzultációk a nemzeti kisebbségekről - jelentette be az X-en az ukrán diplomácia vezetője.

Reality check on donor expectations: do GovTech initiatives help autocrats?

International donors commit substantial resources to GovTech projects (the application of information and communication technologies to government functions). World Bank GovTech investments alone have exceeded $118 billion over the last three decades. Donor strategy documents consistently frame digital transformation not only as a vehicle for improved effectiveness but also for strengthening democracy.
Autocrats are equally invested in these tools. Globally, at least 88 authoritarian regimes currently operate GovTech projects, and electoral autocracies receive the largest share of GovTech aid (48.6 per cent of commitments). Beyond well-known surveillance applications, autocracies deploy GovTech for service delivery, grievance redress and even citizen engagement. These platforms are deployed to project an image of responsiveness and legitimacy. Our experimental evidence from Turkey shows how efficiency-enhancing GovTech tools, when paired with sophisticated regime communication, can durably entrench autocratic rule. We designed a survey experiment focused on CIMER, Turkey’s widely used citizen petition platform, to examine how citizens respond to the government propaganda surrounding it. The results show that the government’s framing of CIMER as an effective tool that “gets things done” significantly increased trust in authoritarian institutions, even among regime opponents. The effect extended beyond attitudes to behaviour: Asked to allocate a hypothetical donation of money among state institutions, independent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or themselves, anti-government respondents exposed to messages on the platform were significantly more likely to give the money to state institutions. Our recommendations are as follows:
• Donors must take the second-order effects of GovTech initiatives seriously and develop mechanisms to carefully evaluate the risks of unintended consequences. In many cases, support for GovTech projects is overly optimistic regarding their effects on political openness. Adopting a more context-sensitive and realistic approach demands detailed political economy assessments before supporting GovTech projects and developing monitoring metrics that capture potential regime-legitimation effects.
• Donors need to build stronger safety guardrails into these projects. Depending on the political economy assessments, such measures could include the institutional involvement of international organisations or, if feasible, local NGOs (as conditionality) in platform oversight, mandatory independent audits and open data standards by design, among others.
• Finally, donors need to consider actively participating in public communication on these platforms, with visible donor branding, to counter government-controlled propaganda, claim credit for service delivery and strengthen trust in donor countries and organisations.

Reality check on donor expectations: do GovTech initiatives help autocrats?

International donors commit substantial resources to GovTech projects (the application of information and communication technologies to government functions). World Bank GovTech investments alone have exceeded $118 billion over the last three decades. Donor strategy documents consistently frame digital transformation not only as a vehicle for improved effectiveness but also for strengthening democracy.
Autocrats are equally invested in these tools. Globally, at least 88 authoritarian regimes currently operate GovTech projects, and electoral autocracies receive the largest share of GovTech aid (48.6 per cent of commitments). Beyond well-known surveillance applications, autocracies deploy GovTech for service delivery, grievance redress and even citizen engagement. These platforms are deployed to project an image of responsiveness and legitimacy. Our experimental evidence from Turkey shows how efficiency-enhancing GovTech tools, when paired with sophisticated regime communication, can durably entrench autocratic rule. We designed a survey experiment focused on CIMER, Turkey’s widely used citizen petition platform, to examine how citizens respond to the government propaganda surrounding it. The results show that the government’s framing of CIMER as an effective tool that “gets things done” significantly increased trust in authoritarian institutions, even among regime opponents. The effect extended beyond attitudes to behaviour: Asked to allocate a hypothetical donation of money among state institutions, independent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or themselves, anti-government respondents exposed to messages on the platform were significantly more likely to give the money to state institutions. Our recommendations are as follows:
• Donors must take the second-order effects of GovTech initiatives seriously and develop mechanisms to carefully evaluate the risks of unintended consequences. In many cases, support for GovTech projects is overly optimistic regarding their effects on political openness. Adopting a more context-sensitive and realistic approach demands detailed political economy assessments before supporting GovTech projects and developing monitoring metrics that capture potential regime-legitimation effects.
• Donors need to build stronger safety guardrails into these projects. Depending on the political economy assessments, such measures could include the institutional involvement of international organisations or, if feasible, local NGOs (as conditionality) in platform oversight, mandatory independent audits and open data standards by design, among others.
• Finally, donors need to consider actively participating in public communication on these platforms, with visible donor branding, to counter government-controlled propaganda, claim credit for service delivery and strengthen trust in donor countries and organisations.

Ősszel kezdődik a próbagyártás a Volvo kassamindszenti üzemében

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 15:00
A terveknek megfelelően halad a Volvo Kassa melletti gyárának építése, ősszel kezdődik a próbagyártás, és 2027-ben indítják be teljes kapacitással az üzemet. Jelenleg 600 alkalmazottja van a gyárnak, júniusban még 70-et vesznek fel, az év végéig pedig további 700-at – közölte Marc Gombeer, a Volvo Cars Košice igazgatója.

A híd felújítása miatt szombaton lezárják a Diószeg és Nagyfödémes közötti utat

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 14:55
TASR: A Fekete-víz (Čierna voda) feletti M392-es híd felújítása miatt szombaton (5. 23.) 6:00 és 20:00 óra között teljesen szélességében lezárják a Diószeg és Nagyfödémes közötti másodrendű utat – tájékoztatta a TASR-t a nagyszombati megyeháza.

Felmérés – Hétpárti parlament: 1. PS, 2. Smer, 3. Republika

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 14:30
Ha május derekán parlamenti választást tartottak volna, a Progresszív Szlovákia győzött volna a szavazatok 19,7%-ával – derült ki az Ipsos ügynökség Denník N megbízásából készített felméréséből, amelyet május 15. és 20. között végeztek 1.009 személy lekérdezésével.

Autót emeltek ki a csatornából a tűzoltók Bögellőnél

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 13:29
Bögellőnél végeztek műszaki mentést a tűzoltók, ahol egy autó a csatornában kötött ki a közúti hídnál. A személyautóban nem volt senki, üzemanyag-szivárgás nem történt.

Veszélyes fenyegetés bűncselekményével gyanúsítanak egy fiatalkorút

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 12:59
A rendőrség veszélyes fenyegetés bűncselekményével gyanúsított meg egy fiatalkorút, aki szerdán Szobráncon fenyegetőzött, és egy éles tárgy is volt nála.

Ndiaye adamant Senegal are champions of Africa

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 12:43
Iliman Ndiaye insists Senegal are African champions in "many people's eyes" despite a legal wrangle over the ultimate destination of the 2025 Afcon title.

Ndiaye adamant Senegal are champions of Africa

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 12:43
Iliman Ndiaye insists Senegal are African champions in "many people's eyes" despite a legal wrangle over the ultimate destination of the 2025 Afcon title.

Constructing policy (in)coherence in Germany's energy transition and impacts on (in)equality

Policy coherence is widely regarded as essential for achieving sustainable development, climate targets, and reducing inequality, as reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent scholarship has moved beyond technocratic approaches, drawing on comparative politics, particularly the “3 I's” of ideas, interests, and institutions, to highlight the inherently political nature of coherence. Yet even these studies often treat coherence as binary, easily observable, and intrinsically beneficial. Building on a coherence literature focused on discourses and frames, this paper challenges these assumptions by examining how policy (in)coherence is constructed and contested. Focusing on policy implementation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's coal heartland, we analyse two cases before and during the 2022 energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine: the commissioning of the Datteln IV hard coal plant in 2020, and the clearance of the village of Lützerath for mining in 2023. Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews with German energy, climate, and environmental experts, alongside policy and media analysis, we find that (in)coherence is greatly constructed and contested under shifting political and economic pressures, instrumentalised and legitimisatised by different actors to advance their interests, and profoundly shaped by temporal dynamics. Given recent findings that challenge the 2030 Agenda's assumption that policy coherence reduces inequalities, we also explore how (in)coherence is perceived to shape multidimensional inequality in the Energiewende more broadly. Here, we find that (in)coherence is most prominently perceived to cause delays in climate mitigation, disproportionately affecting youth, low-income households, migrants, and activists. In this context, (in)coherence is not merely technical, political nor constructed, but fundamentally a matter of justice, shifting the analytical focus from whether policies and their implementation are coherent to how, and for whom, coherence matters.

Constructing policy (in)coherence in Germany's energy transition and impacts on (in)equality

Policy coherence is widely regarded as essential for achieving sustainable development, climate targets, and reducing inequality, as reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent scholarship has moved beyond technocratic approaches, drawing on comparative politics, particularly the “3 I's” of ideas, interests, and institutions, to highlight the inherently political nature of coherence. Yet even these studies often treat coherence as binary, easily observable, and intrinsically beneficial. Building on a coherence literature focused on discourses and frames, this paper challenges these assumptions by examining how policy (in)coherence is constructed and contested. Focusing on policy implementation in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's coal heartland, we analyse two cases before and during the 2022 energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine: the commissioning of the Datteln IV hard coal plant in 2020, and the clearance of the village of Lützerath for mining in 2023. Drawing on 28 semi-structured interviews with German energy, climate, and environmental experts, alongside policy and media analysis, we find that (in)coherence is greatly constructed and contested under shifting political and economic pressures, instrumentalised and legitimisatised by different actors to advance their interests, and profoundly shaped by temporal dynamics. Given recent findings that challenge the 2030 Agenda's assumption that policy coherence reduces inequalities, we also explore how (in)coherence is perceived to shape multidimensional inequality in the Energiewende more broadly. Here, we find that (in)coherence is most prominently perceived to cause delays in climate mitigation, disproportionately affecting youth, low-income households, migrants, and activists. In this context, (in)coherence is not merely technical, political nor constructed, but fundamentally a matter of justice, shifting the analytical focus from whether policies and their implementation are coherent to how, and for whom, coherence matters.

Highlights - AFET Mission to South Africa - 25-27 May 2026 - Committee on Foreign Affairs

From 25 to 27 May, a delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) of six MEPs led by the Committee Chair David McAllister (EPP, Germany) will visit Cape Town, Pretoria, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
The delegation will meet South African political leaders and partners to discuss deepening EU-South Africa cooperation. Key topics include international relations in a changing geopolitical landscape, security, political ties, and the Global Gateway, the EU's strategy for global infrastructure investment.
AFET Missions
Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Declaraciones del Presidente António Costa en la rueda de prensa posterior a la reunión con el presidente de Guatemala Bernardo Arévalo

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 10:08
El presidente del Consejo Europeo, António Costa, presentó durante una rueda de prensa conjunta los principales resultados de las conversaciones mantenidas con el Presidente Bernardo Arévalo en Ciudad de Guatemala el 20 de mayo de 2026.

Media advisory – EU-Mexico summit of 22 May 2026

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 10:08
Approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

UPDATE - Press briefing - Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) of 22 May 2026 and General Affairs Council of 26 May 2026

Europäischer Rat (Nachrichten) - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 10:08
Press briefing ahead of the upcoming Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) and General Affairs Council will take place on Thursday, 21 May 2026 at 16.15.

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