The European Union provides farmers with income support or ‘direct payments’ to function as a safety net and make farming more profitable, guarantee food security in Europe, assist them in the production of safe, healthy and affordable food and reward farmers for delivering public goods not normally paid for by markets. They are managed jointly by the Commission and the Member States through a number of schemes. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Common rules have been drawn up to ensure that passengers receive at least a minimum level of assistance in the event of serious delays to or cancellation of their journey, irrespective of the mode of transport used, and, in particular, to protect more vulnerable travellers. The rules also provide for compensation schemes. However, a wide range of derogations may be granted for rail and road transport services, and court actions challenging the application of the rules are still common. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

EU regulations on maritime transport focus on the application of the principle of free movement of services and the correct application of competition rules, while ensuring a high level of safety, good working conditions and environmental standards. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The European Social Fund (ESF) was set up under the Treaty of Rome to improve workers’ mobility and employment opportunities. Its tasks and operational rules have since been revised and complementary EU instruments have been integrated to enhance coherence and synergies, and reflect developments in the economic and employment situation in the Member States, as well as the evolution of the political priorities defined at EU level. As a result, ESF+ has become the main EU instrument for investing in people. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The action of the European Union (EU) in the field of budgetary control is based on two principles: on the one hand, ensuring that the EU’s budget is properly spent and, on the other, protecting the Union’s financial interests and combating fraud. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has the power to investigate fraud against the EU budget, corruption and serious misconduct and develops anti-fraud policy. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) investigates, prosecutes and brings to justice crimes against the EU budget. Even if their primary focus is not strictly on protecting the Union’s financial interests, EUROPOL and Eurojust provide additional support. Finally, the anti-fraud landscape will soon be marked by a further decentralised EU agency, the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

80 ans jour pour jour que l'Allemagne nazie a capitulé face aux alliés pour mettre fin à la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ce moment a été célébré à plusieurs endroits en Polynésie française : aux monuments aux morts à Papeete mais aussi aux Marquises, à Hiva Oa. Les traditionnels dépôts de gerbes se sont faits en présence d'élus, de militaires et d'anciens combattants. Des décorations ont été remises.

Ce sont les mots du Père Abraham, prêtre de la paroisse catholique de Saint-Joseph suite à l'élection du nouveau pape Léon XIV. Âgé de 69 ans, il est considéré comme un homme d’écoute, de synthèse, modéré, et ayant une expérience significative du terrain ainsi que des rouages du Vatican. Quelles sont les réactions des catholiques du fenua ?

Robert Francis Prevost vient d'être élu par le conclave. Il a choisi Léon XIV comme nom de pape

On 26 February 2025, the European Commission presented the Clean Industrial Deal, a new EU plan to support competitiveness and decarbonisation of EU industry. The Deal focuses mainly on energy-intensive industries and clean technologies (clean tech). Both sectors face high energy prices, intense global competition and complex regulations. The Clean Industrial Deal includes several solutions to address this situation. It aims to bring energy costs down, boost demand for clean products, reduce EU dependency on raw materials, improve circularity and restore domestic manufacturing. Planned legislative initiatives in the energy field include a new electricity grids package, revisions of the energy security framework and Energy Union governance, as well as an Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act and a delegated act on low-carbon hydrogen. Recommendations and guidance documents are also planned, for instance on network charges, energy taxation and the design of long-term instruments for electricity supply. In the short term, the Clean Industrial Deal aims to mobilise over €100 billion through boosting EU-level funding, leveraging private investments and enhancing State aid. The key EU funding sources will be the Innovation Fund, Horizon Europe, InvestEU and a new Industrial Decarbonisation Bank. In the next long-term EU budget, the Competitiveness Fund will support EU investments in research and innovation, industrial deployment and scale-up, manufacturing, clean tech and industrial decarbonisation. The European Parliament is currently working on a resolution on the Clean Industrial Deal. The vote in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is expected in June 2025, while the plenary vote is planned for July 2025. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

President Donald Trump threatens that the US will take back the Panama Canal, a strategic maritime route for global trade, because of perceived Chinese influence in the Canal Zone. In fact, a Hong Kong-based private company owns two of the canal's five port terminals at strategically important points. The Panama Canal is a key maritime trade route that handles about 40 % of US container traffic and approximately 5 % of world trade. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The European Union complements the Member States’ activities with regard to the right of workers to information and consultation by adopting minimum requirements by means of directives or through measures designed to encourage cooperation between the Member States. A number of EU directives protect the rights of workers to information and consultation by establishing rules for both the national and transnational levels. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Free movement is one of the four freedoms enjoyed by EU citizens. This includes the rights of movement and residence for workers, the rights of entry and residence for family members, and the right to work in another Member State and be treated on an equal footing with nationals of that Member State. Restrictions apply for the public service. The European Labour Authority serves as a dedicated agency for the free movement of workers, including posted workers. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The European Union (EU) considers language learning an important priority as part of its efforts to promote mobility and intercultural understanding. It views multilingualism to be an important element of Europe’s competitiveness and funds numerous programmes and projects in this area. One of the objectives of the EU’s language policy is therefore for every citizen to master two languages besides their mother tongue. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The ‘Horizontal’ Regulation on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy (CAP) provides the legislative framework for adapting the financing, management and monitoring rules of the CAP to its new delivery model. It seeks to achieve more subsidiarity and simplification, with greater responsibility given to Member States, showing a shift from ensuring compliance to monitoring performance and reduced administrative burdens for the Member States. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

La première grosse houle de l'année a été saluée comme il se doit. Nos surfeurs n'ont pas hésité à braver des vagues de 3 à 4 m tubulaires. Du grand art pour du grand spectacle.

Territorial supply constraints (TSCs) still constitute a barrier to the single market. TSCs are restrictions on the supply of goods that are linked to the territories in which sales are made at different levels in the supply chain. A study delivered for the European Commission in 2020 estimated that eliminating TSCs could lead to consumer savings of around €14 billion. In the absence of specific rules, this problem has been tackled at EU level by competition law, but with only partial success. Competition law is constrained by certain parameters, notably the requirement for agreements to exist between contracting parties or for one of the parties involved to have a dominant position on the market, which means that it is not suitable to tackle all instances of TSCs. The same phenomenon has been visible in the past in similar policy areas. For example, unfair trading practices in the food sector were also addressed, with partial success, by competition law, before specific legislation was adopted. To meet recent calls for action on TSCs, the same progression – from partial regulation through competition law to full internal market legislation – may be required. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

En 2023 en Polynésie française, 45 000 personnes étaient identifiées diabétiques par la Direction de la santé. La prévalence du diabète traité par médicaments était estimée à 22% dans la population âgée entre 20 et 79 ans, contre seulement 5,6% en France. Malgré une certaine prise de conscience, le constat reste alarmant avec 3 000 cas nouveaux de diabète diagnostiqués chaque année.

Dans le port de Los Angeles, la valse des grues déchargeant les conteneurs amenés d'Asie par d'immenses navires s'est déréglée depuis quelques jours : ce baromètre de l'économie américaine tourne au ralenti à cause de la guerre commerciale lancée par Donald Trump.

En séance ce mardi 06 mai, le 29 juin a été supprimé de la liste des jours fériés et remplacé par le 20 novembre, date du Matari'i i ni'a. Si le fait de célébrer l'entrée dans la période d'abondance met tout le monde d'accord, l'abolition du 29 juin est considérée par l'opposition comme une manière d'effacer une partie de l'histoire de la Polynésie, sans l'accord du Peuple.

Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (2009), the EU national parliaments have had the right to control the principle of subsidiarity through the Early Warning System (EWS). This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, examines how the EWS has worked over the past 15 years. It also looks into the interaction of Parliament, the European Commission, local and regional entities, the Committee of the Regions, the Court of Justice of the EU and the Council with national parliaments to this end. Moreover, it considers the principle of proportionality and the EU institutions’ relationship with it. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Once seen as a front-runner of the Eastern Partnership, Georgia's EU path has been de facto halted since June 2024. The country is engulfed in a political crisis following the contested October 2024 parliamentary elections. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

In April 2025, the European Commission presented a communication on the mid-term review of the EU cohesion policy, accompanied by a proposal for a regulation amending the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Cohesion Fund and the Just Transition Fund. The Commission aims to use the mid-term review to maximise the contribution of cohesion policy to the EU's current and emerging political priorities and to increase its impact on economic, social and territorial cohesion. According to the communication, the amendments to the regulatory framework of the cohesion policy funds seek to align investment priorities with the evolving economic, societal and geopolitical context, as well as with EU climate and environment objectives, and to introduce greater flexibility and incentives in order to facilitate the rapid deployment of resources. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

EU Member States have a shared responsibility to give protection to asylum-seekers, to ensure that they receive fair treatment and that their cases are examined in accordance with uniform standards. The common European asylum system (CEAS) establishes common standards for Member States in their procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection. A critical aspect of a common approach to international protection is the application of the 'safe country of origin' concept. In the context of refugees, the term 'safe country of origin' (SCO) has been used to refer to countries whose citizens should not, in theory, be granted international protection, since those countries are widely regarded as safe. The concept can refer to the automatic exclusion from refugee status of nationals originating from SCOs, or it can raise a presumption of safety that those nationals must rebut. Several international and regional human rights bodies have either raised concerns about the use of the SCO concept or proposed appropriate safeguards to ensure that fundamental rights of persons in genuine need of international protection, but who originate from SCOs, are respected. At EU level, the concept has gradually developed as part of the CEAS, culminating in the adoption of the provisions on the common EU list of SCOs. Many Member States have already established national SCO lists. With the new asylum legislation, transposition of the SCO concept will be mandatory for all Member States, which will also be able to retain or introduce national SCO lists other than those designated at EU level. This is an update of a 2024 EPRS briefing. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The coordination of social security facilitates the free movement of people within the EU. After a fundamental reform of legislation in this area in 2010, the Commission included proposals in its 2016 Labour Mobility Package to further reform the system and adapt it to modern economic and social realities in the EU. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The European employment strategy, dating back to 1997, established common objectives for employment policy and contributed to ‘soft coordination’ among the Member States. Creating more and better jobs was one of the main goals of the Europe 2020 strategy. In the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the Commission has proposed new and more ambitious targets in employment policy as well as concrete actions for a fair, equitable and well-functioning labour market. EU law is relevant in certain areas, even if the responsibility for employment policy lies primarily with national governments. Employment policy is monitored and assessed in the European Semester. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

La Toa Pro a lancé les hostilités ce mardi 6 mai, première journée de compétition sur les 3 prévues par la fédération tahitienne de surf. Focus sur les surfeuses du Fenua. Elles sont plus nombreuses que les années précédentes à pouvoir se qualifier pour les challengers series.

Les financements d’aides à la formation et à l’embauche sont en retard. Sollicitée par une représentante, la ministre du travail a reconnu parfois jusqu’à 6 mois de retard, pour un coût total de 100 millions de francs pacifique. Des retards de financements qui pourraient compromettre la tenue de certaines formations et l’envie d’embaucher, bien qu'ils soient en cours de régularisation.

Ce mardi, 114 personnes en situation de handicap ont participé à un job dating, à l'Assemblée de Polynésie. Une matinée durant laquelle une vingtaine d’entreprises privées et publiques étaient réunies. C’est une opportunité pour ces personnes en situation difficile qui peinent à trouver un emploi, même si la loi oblige les entreprises à en embaucher.

Les agents pénitentiaires et la direction du centre de détention de Tatutu sont retournés à la table des négociations. Ils espèrent, enfin, trouver une issue au conflit qui touche le centre depuis plusieurs semaines.

Le Falcon 50 remplace le Falcon 200 Gardian. Le nouvel avion aura un rayon d'action beaucoup plus étendu. Il devrait effectuer sa première mission de surveillance dans la zone économique exclusive au mois de juin.

Trois matchs, trois défaites, la Coupe du monde de beach soccer a été cruelle avec l'équipe tahitienne. Les Tiki Toa ont été sèchement battus, ce mardi 6 mai, aux Seychelles par les Espagnols, 8 buts à 3.

Situated at the intersection between economic and environmental interests, the term 'ecosystem-based approach' has shaped the discussion on fisheries management for many years and is currently widely used in the context of ocean governance. There is, however, not necessarily a common understanding of what the approach implies. Different terms as well as a number of different definitions and concepts exist, depending on the entity using them. Two major concepts, the incremental and the holistic method, can be applied for putting the approach into practice. The main difficulties hindering its further deployment in the context of fisheries policy are: knowledge gaps, complex decision-making, and a lack of an interdisciplinary implementing framework. Given these challenges, the common fisheries policy remains dominated by the conventional single-species approach. The European Parliament has repeatedly argued in favour of a further development of the approach in EU policies, and current research points in this direction. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

With the appointment of Apostolos Tzitzikostas as European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, tourism policy has received new impetus. In the European Commission's communications, returning policy objectives are geared towards making tourism greener, more digital, more competitive and – since the COVID-19 pandemic – more resilient. The Commission has also set out several initiatives to improve the travel experience by protecting the rights of passengers and making tourism more accessible for people with disabilities. In addition, the EU makes use of digital tools for issuing or refusing travel authorisations, processing biometric data and protecting travellers' personal data. Furthermore, it addresses the environmental impact of tourism with legislation that encourages energy efficiency and the use of alternative fuels. It also promotes eco-friendly accommodation and little-known destinations in order to cope with overtourism. Service providers in the travel industry face several challenges and opportunities. The sector is affected, among other things, by new taxation rules. Service providers will be able to collect more reliable information on hosts and their short-term rental properties. Funding for tourism is spread across several EU programmes. Some are meant to make the sector more resilient, others to support businesses, protect the environment or encourage cultural exchange. Looking ahead, the Commission work programme for 2025 envisages amending passenger rights, digitising passports and identity cards, facilitating consular protection and protecting travellers. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Improving health and safety at work has been an important concern for the EU since the 1980s. Legislation at European level sets minimum standards for the protection of workers, while allowing Member States to maintain or introduce more stringent measures. Health and safety at work is a key component of the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

A ‘posted worker’ is a worker who is sent by their employer to provide a service in another EU Member State on a temporary basis. Freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services are fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The principle governing the status of posted workers is ‘equal pay for the same work in the same place’. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP