Pierre Gaudin

🎤 I was honored to present the results of two recent Plan Bleu socio-economic publications at the event "Which bottlenecks and solutions exist for strengthening policy coherence in the Mediterranean?" organized by the Horizon Europe-funded CrossGovProject (Frioul). Key takeaways: 🌊 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a significant role in local economic dynamics. 🐟 The most significant benefits of protection measures are those associated with biodiversity and ecosystems (estimated benefits of €21.6million/year in the case study of Cerbère Banyuls Reserve, €48.7million/year in Port-Cros National Park), and those associated with society and local communities - benefits of collective interest. 🌱 Positive impacts and associated benefits are often the result of the entirety of protection measures, which have a cumulative impact. ⚖️ General recommendations for the fisheries sector include moving away from capacity-enhancing subsidies, towards fisheries management measures, support for research and development, and support for establishing and protecting marine protected areas. 🌐 Economic incentives and political support should be given to small-scale fishing activities to preserve coastal culture and traditional techniques, and support eco-friendly practices. Thank you to the organizers Pierre Strosser Dr Sašo Gorjanc for this opportunity to share our insights and engage in this key dialogue.

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Intriguing and exciting discussion with a colleague! I told him about this paper by Stephane Foucart who explored how religious and economic narratives are intertwined. The paper is in French and here is the gist: Market as a Modern #Myth? Some scholars suggest the language used in #economic #news strangely #resembles religious texts. They see the market as a powerful entity with its own set of "commandments" and "prophets." Is the Market #Divine? ⚖️ This perspective challenges the traditional view of the market as a perfectly self-regulating force. Critics point out historical and contemporary examples where the market hasn't delivered on its promises. Beyond the #Market Gospel? The discussion encourages us to critically examine our economic assumptions. Perhaps it's time to explore alternative models that prioritize social well-being and environmental sustainability. https://lnkd.in/eZWp6KFt

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Luxembourg is in the vanguard! The country's data protection authority has been designated as the national competent authority until the EU's AI Act.

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#REPLAY 🎥 Following the results of the French Elections last Sunday, don't miss the replay of our webinar held last night on "France elections, impact on current & future foreign investments?" with Karl (Hepp) de Sevelinges M&A Partner and Co-Managing Partner Jeantet - avocats, and Guillaume Labbez, Chairman of CommStrat - Communication Stratégique and Professor in Public Affairs.   ✔️ Key points:   🔹Will France keep its attractivity for international investors following the elections? 🔹What impact would different scenarios of potential governments have on the tax and regulatory framework? 🔹How are French companies and economic players preparing for the various possible scenarios?   Replay available here 👇 https://lnkd.in/em-PaKCk

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Important insights from co-creating solutions at #scale, by leveraging data and engaging local ministries. #cocreation #education Building Evidence in Education (BE²)

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European Union Artificial Intelligence Act #EUAIAct #AIAct In a statement, the French Ministry of Culture formalizes the referral of the Superior Council of Literary and Artistic Property “Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique” (#CSPLA) on the subject, with two distinct missions. The first must “expertise the scope of the transparency obligation provided for in Article 53 of the European regulation on #AI”, and establish “the list of information that should necessarily be made public by #AIProviders, according to the cultural sectors concerned, to allow authors and holders of neighboring rights to exercise their rights”. A second mission will look at the mechanisms ensuring that “rights holders have the guarantee of the effectiveness of their rights when their works are used by AI providers”. #IPRights #CopyRights #EthicalAI #TrustworthyAI #ResponsibleAI It will also analyze “the underlying economic issues related to access to cultural and heritage data when these are used by AI”. https://lnkd.in/ek_U36SA

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🔵In a new interview for Carenews, le média des acteurs de l'engagement 🌍📗, VOICE Director Maria Groenewald discusses the indispensable collaboration with the European Union, particularly with DG ECHO. Despite substantial support, the #funding remains insufficient – with only 40% of the humanitarian financial needs being met in 2023. As we step into 2024, it is clear that the available budget of €1.8 billion will not suffice, especially amidst increasing demands due to ongoing #humanitarian crises worldwide. As VOICE champions for enhanced EU and Member States budgets for humanitarian aid, it is crucial to remember that each negotiation and #partnership aims to improve the implementation of humanitarian programs, emphasizing the importance of initiatives like the Grand Bargain and the humanitarian-development-peace #Nexus. VOICE continues to seek new members from countries where humanitarian aid needs stronger representation and advocates for increased transparency in aid reporting. 🔽For more details on how #VOICE is driving change and representing European NGOs in the humanitarian landscape, read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/dxmpdFKa

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Last month, I had the chance to go to the #MonacoOceanWeek 🇲🇨 with local & international experts and civil society organizations, including professionals from the Ocean & Climate Platform, to attend their two side-events related to public policies implemented by the French Secretariat of State for the Sea and Biodiversity (Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité) and also to interview professionals in the field: 1️⃣ Adapting coastal cities and communities to tackle sea level rise 🌊 Global sea level rise is caused by the increased melting of land-based ice, such as glaciers and ice sheets. With ocean warming and high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, sea level will continue to rise at higher rates, according to experts. This phenomenon results in extreme weather events and major repercussions for coastal cities: land loss, flooding, coastal erosion, ecosystem degradation, and so on. In its Global Risks Report 2024 (https://lnkd.in/epZpQCgf), World Economic Forum showed us that extreme weather events were seen as “the second-most severe risk over the two-year time frame", and also, nearly all environmental risks featured among the 10 global risks over the longer term (ten-years time frame): extreme weather events, critical change to Earth systems, and biodiversity loss. Sea level rise and coastal adaptation still remain under-addressed but they recently have been defined as a clear political priority. They will be addressed and discussed at the next United Nations Ocean Conference #UNOC3 🇺🇳in Nice in June 2025, during an inaugural international event. ➡️To better understand this phenomenon with Lisa Devignol : https://lnkd.in/eYbAJB9p 2️⃣ “Let's Be Nice to the Ocean”: an initiative to prepare for the UNOC 3 In June 2025, the Governments of France and Costa Rica 🇫🇷🇨🇷 will co-organize the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice. They have mandated Remi Parmentier (The Varda Group) and Loreley Picourt (Ocean & Climate Platform) to co-facilitate the participation of civil society in Nice. Civil society organizations play a crucial role in ocean governance, their voices need to be heard and their ideas need to be taken into account. 💬They were invited to share their innovative, actionable and relevant ideas to https://lnkd.in/e7M_igSS in order to protect the ocean. 🔔Find out more about this initiative (all the interviews are in English with French subtitles) :  - Interview with Rémi Parmentier on “3 immediate opportunities” : The Deep Sea, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and the Mediterranean : https://lnkd.in/e7KhUvFj  - Interview with Loreley Picourt on the role of #civilsociety organizations ⬇️ #UNOceanConference #sealevelrise #coastaladaptation

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Very interesting study showing that age and the medium you trust will impact your perception and exposure to foreign narratives - at least in France. All the more worrying as social networks are giving up on fact checking and content moderation.

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🚨 Breaking News on Financial Afrik this Morning 🚨 Explosive Headline: "Syria on the Brink: A Terrifying Chaos Unfolds!" 🔥 A hard-hitting analysis of the volatile situation in Syria and the terrible chaos looming on the horizon. 🌍 In a geopolitical masterstroke, President Joe Biden takes his ultimate gamble: 👉 Redrawing the geopolitical map 👉 Consolidating U.S. dominance amidst Middle East turbulence 🔎 What does this mean for global stability, power dynamics, and the future of the region? Dive into the exclusive article, now live on Financial Afrik, for a sharp, unparalleled insight into the next chapter of history unfolding before our eyes. 👉 Read now and join the global conversation! 💡 #Geopolitics #MiddleEast #USForeignPolicy #SyriaCrisis

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🧱𝑼𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒖 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 ? Dans cet article du 11 mai 2024, The Economist développe l'idée que le #droit #international #public serait en train de disparaître⤵️. La preuve en serait le nombre de #vetos au Conseil de Sécurité, la multiplication des #procés devant des juridictions comme la Cour internationale pénale et la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme contre des #Etats ou leurs dirigeants qui n'affectent pas ceux-ci. Ainsi l'ambition même de "principes universels", pouvant protéger les êtres #humains devrait être abandonnée, face à la Russie et à la Chine qui développent d'autres conceptions que celles portées par l'Occident. C'est sans doute une raison de plus de soutenir le Droit de la #Compliance qui compte sur les opérateurs #économiques #cruciaux pour tendre vers la réalisation de #butsmonumentaux, non pas parce qu'ils seraient les auteurs d'atteinte à ces principes fondamentaux mais parce qu'ils sont de plus en plus les seuls à même, les seuls "en #position" d'agir pour les prendre en #considération et protéger les êtres humains, même ceux lointains dans l'espace et dans le temps. ________  🧱mafr, "L’usage des puissances privées par le droit de la compliance pour servir les droits de l’homme", in Andriantsimbazovina Joel (dir.), Puissances privées et droits de l'Homme. Essai d'analyse juridique, éditions Mare et Martin, coll. "Horizons européens", 2024, pp. 279-295 ➡️https://lnkd.in/efc23DAk ________ The world’s rules-based order is cracking https://lnkd.in/ePEuCKHf from The Economist

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🇷🇺⚔️💲🇨🇳 The private military and security sector (#PMC) has experienced significant growth in recent decades, particularly in the African 🌍market. 1/3 The rise in security crises on the continent, such as the increase in terrorism threats, intercommunal conflicts, civil wars, and insurgencies, combined with the difficulties some African governments face in addressing them, has led to an increasing reliance on PMCs. In addition to local companies, many foreign PMCs have established themselves in Africa, providing services ranging from protecting foreign nationals to supporting local military operations. Russian and Chinese companies have been particularly active in this space. Since the 2000s, China and Russia have emerged as major international security players, expanding their influence in Africa through their PMCs. 🇨🇳#China's PMC expansion in Africa has primarily focused on securing the interests of Chinese nationals—over a million of whom reside on the continent—and China's economic investments, as the country is Africa's largest trading partner with $282 billion in trade in 2022. Companies like Frontier Services Group (#FSG) identified Africa as their largest revenue source in 2019.

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Today at the invitation of Lars-Hendrik Röller, President Emmanuel Macron attended the Berlin global dialogue, focusing on EU Competitiveness, building on his speech at the Sorbonne last April, on the Letta and Draghi reports and on the German-French contribution for Growth adopted in Meseberg in May, largely reflected in the new European Commission policy guidelines for the next five years. Time for the EU to deliver its own agenda! From President Macron’s « Europe can die » to Mario Draghi’s risk of a « slow agony », Europe’s growth and social model is at risk, even after strong and united EU responses to the Covid pandemic and to the Russian agression in Ukraine. The EU is lagging behind the US and China. It needs to reshape its growth model, invest and deliver more, particularly on climate change, AI, defence industry, to be more competitive. Five steps will be crucial : 1) The EU needs a simplification shock with its regulations, as it faces the risk of a technological desynchronisation with the US and China, to keep its attractiveness and deepen its Single Market in key sectors (energy, telcos, financial services). 2) The EU should use its instruments to enforce and restore a level playing field in trade relations with competitors, as they do not follow WTO rules anymore. Not to become protectionists: just to be fair to EU companies, industries, farmers, as they face Chinese overcapacities and subsidies as well as the impacts of the American IRA. The EU shouldn’t be naively continuing to play by the book and ignoring it has become an adjustment factor for international players. 3) The EU needs to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 with an industrial base. We need to deliver on a Clean Industrial Deal, building on energy autonomy and based on technological neutrality (net zero industry Act, Carbon border adjustment mechanism, etc.). 4) The EU needs to deliver an industrial strategy on key sectors identified in the Versailles Summit and the German-French contribution in Meserg so as to keep the technological edge, reduce dependencies and strengthen its resilience and sovereignty: IA, quantum computing, energy, biotechs/healthcare, defence, semiconductors, etc. We need to help EU players to innovate and scale up. 5) The EU needs to invest much more in these key sectors, mobilising both public and private support. As the EU budget is not sufficient, the EU also needs to build on innovative ways that have increased its investment capacity, such as the Juncker Plan and then the first common borrowing capacity for with NextGenerationEU. The EU also needs to mobilise private money, to channel the abundant European savings so that they stay in Europe to support the clean and digital transitions as well as the European defence technological and industrial base. This means more investments in equity and achieving the capital markets union. Time for an efficient EU to rush to deliver on this agenda!

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The General Recommandation 40 adopted by the CEDAW Committee is the major instrument for global and sustainable change in line with the implementation of the Beijing 30 Platform.

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Delighted to share this interview I conducted with Institut Montaigne on the history, challenges, and possibilities of governing under divided government in the United States https://lnkd.in/eRjUvFnP Office of Research School of International Service (SIS) Bridging the Gap

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My first #CoRPlenary ! More concretely the 160th plenary of the European Committee of the Regions. Incredibly exiciting to see the work of the different members of the CoR come to life in this occasion. This plenary covered very wide topics that touch all European citizens ✅EU Elections ✅Cohesion Policy ✅Child protection services ✅Mental Health ✅Energy ✅Affordable housing ✅ even cycling 🚴! The opinions adopted today mark the cornerstone for tomorrow’s legislation for regions, cities and all Europe! #eulocal #corplenary #euelections2024

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Here is a peak at meaningful insights by selected chapters of the Plan Bleu report "Unraveling the Impact of Environmentally Harmful Subsidies in the Mediterranean". From fishing subsidies to energy transition, #Mediterranean authors provided valuable analyses highlighting paths for sustainable reform. Up next: we are actively at work on a follow-up report on "Environmentally Virtuous Tools in the Mediterranean". Stay tuned! #Sustainability #Mediterranean #SustainableFinance

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PUTIN STRATEGY There is no "ideological choice on the part of the Kremlin. This relies on all the forces capable of fragmenting society, of weakening its cohesion, on the extreme right as well as the extreme left. For at least ten years, throughout Europe and in the United States, the Kremlin has been striving to accelerate and amplify the polarization of political debates, and to amplify all divisive debates likely to favor the extremes in the to the detriment of the government parties. Anti-system parties have thus very often become objective allies of the Kremlin."

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