Microplastic pollution has been found in all human semen samples tested in a study, and researchers say further research on the potential harm to reproduction is “imperative”. Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades and 40% of low counts remain unexplained, although chemical pollution has been implicated by many...
The President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that a referendum on the independence of the Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held, and its date has yet to be determined....
Get into the car in the morning and drive through France into Belgium on the way to the Netherlands. And the only sign of change of country is a sign along the road that I almost missed. Nobody checked our (German) IDs and we did not need a passport.
Living in the #EU, we tend to take it for granted that we can easily cross borders. But it's an wonder, an achievement, something worth fighting for.
Comment l’extrémisme religieux chrétien se fédère en Europe pour «restaurer l’ordre naturel»
Auparavant rassemblés sous l’organisation Agenda #Europe, née en même temps que La Manif pour tous, les mouvements antichoix se multiplient en Europe. Dans la ligne de mire de cette galaxie chrétienne conservatrice, le droit à l’avortement et les personnes LGBT+.
🇪🇺 💥 Battle related deaths in #Europe, estimated by #UCDP
The chart shows how many deaths related to wars have been in Europe since 1989
🇷🇺 #Russia has been the country most involved in these deaths: about 20.000 in wars internal to russia (mainly in #Chechnya), and 175.000 in external wars (🇺🇦 #Ukraine, 🇬🇪 #Georgia, 🇲🇩 #Moldova)
Then the wars in 🇧🇦 🇷🇸 🇭🇷 🇽🇰 former #Yugoslavia with 57.000 deaths, and in 🇦🇿 🇦🇲 #NagornoKarabakh with 14.000
Back in November 2023, I wrote about the looming backlash in environmental politics in the EU for Yale E360. Now the Union and its parties are entering the decisive phase of this struggle, both with the ongoing elections, which will result in a new parliament and commission, and with the imminent decision of the Council of member states about the #NatureRestorationLawhttps://e360.yale.edu/features/europe-environment-backlash#EU#Euelection#Europe#climate
Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing at #Normandy, #France, where ~160k #Allied troops pulled off the largest invasion by sea in history. From that point on #America was in charge of #AlliedForces & it was the beginning of the end of #WWII
Le retour de l’austérité en Europe? Le débat Clément Beaune et Aurore Lalucq
Le porte-parole de la campagne de Renaissance et la colistière de Raphaël Glucksmann s’opposent sur le nouveau «pacte de stabilité» adopté par le Parlement européen. Ils confrontent leurs idées sur les moyens fiscaux d’abonder le #BudgetEuropéen, et sur l’état du système bancaire en #Europe.
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
La hiérarchie de Libé qui protège Quatremer en louant son talent alors qu’il publie des horreurs sur Twitter X et notamment un tweet raciste sur Boyard représenté en porcinet et un militant LFI en Jafar, le vilain d'Aladin… Pour info, je l'avais critiqué et il m'avait menacé de me dénoncer à mes patron en DM sur Twitter. Le talent, soit-disant, alors que n’importe quel journaliste serait bon après 30 ans à vivre sur Bruxelles.
Renforcer la défense de l'Europe: #Berlin et #Paris veulent développer des armes à longue portée
Les consultations franco-allemandes au château de #Meseberg visent à améliorer la capacité de défense de l'Europe. Paris et Berlin souhaitent développer conjointement des #missiles à longue portée. L’industrie de l’armement devrait également en bénéficier.
La #LDH appelle à voter aux #Électionseuropéennes pour une #Europe qui lutte contre le sans-abrisme et mette en place un droit inconditionnel à l’hébergement pour tous et toutes.
Nouvelle fiche : une #éponge (pas facile à discriminer de certaines copines sans exam' des #spicules) de Manche et probablement Méditerranée, un peu hirsute :
L'éponge-buisson plat orange.
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko signed a law suspending Belarus's involvement in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in #Europe (CFE), which was designed to establish limits on the number of arms and equipment in #NATO and #WarsawPact countries.
The law was registered in Belarus' online legal portal on May 29.
The CFE Treaty was negotiated between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries at the end of the Cold War to limit the size of forces that could be used in a swift offensive.
The treaty was signed in Paris in November 1990 and was initially agreed upon by 16 NATO members and six countries of the former Warsaw Pact
Caretaker medical health minister Pia Dijkstra is planning to experiment with compensating women who have undergone female genital mutilation for the cost of operations if they suffer sexual or psychological complications....
Contaminated water labelled a ‘political failure’ as ‘alarming’ levels of toxic TFAs found.
Europe’s rivers, lakes and ground water contain “alarming” levels of a pesticide-like forever chemical Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). #ClimateChange#Europe#Pollution#Chemical
Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study (www.theguardian.com)
Microplastic pollution has been found in all human semen samples tested in a study, and researchers say further research on the potential harm to reproduction is “imperative”. Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades and 40% of low counts remain unexplained, although chemical pollution has been implicated by many...
Milorad Dodic (President of the Republika Srpska): We will hold a Referendum on the independence of Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina (sarajevotimes.com)
The President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that a referendum on the independence of the Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held, and its date has yet to be determined....
Minister backs trials in paying for more FGM reconstruction (www.dutchnews.nl)
Caretaker medical health minister Pia Dijkstra is planning to experiment with compensating women who have undergone female genital mutilation for the cost of operations if they suffer sexual or psychological complications....