Effective consumer protection policy ensures that the single market functions properly. It safeguards consumers’ rights against merchants and provides extra protection for vulnerable consumers. Consumer protection rules can boost market outcomes overall. They promote fairer markets and, with better consumer information, foster greener, more social outcomes. Empowering consumers and safeguarding their interests are key EU policy goals. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as data services, now surpass traditional telephone services in importance for both consumers and businesses. With the surge in on-demand content and 4G/5G growth, the EU has introduced a telecommunications regulatory framework. This encompasses all types of telecommunications, including broadcasting. Research indicates that telecommunications services, network equipment, content and applications contribute up to EUR 1 trillion to the EU’s GDP annually, representing about 4.7% of the EU’s GDP. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Youth is a national policy area, so EU-level harmonisation is not possible. The EU therefore plays a supporting role, especially when it comes to mobility and opportunities across the EU. For instance, Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ programme about mobility for individuals encourages exchanges of young people within the EU and with third countries. Over the past few years, the European Union has strengthened its policies towards young people, as illustrated by the European Solidarity Corps programme and the DiscoverEU project. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

As the second pillar of the common agricultural policy (CAP), the EU’s rural development policy is designed to support its rural areas and meet the wide range of economic, environmental and societal challenges they face. Greater flexibility (in comparison with the first pillar) enables regional, national and local authorities to formulate their rural development support schemes based on a ‘menu’ of EU-wide measures. Unlike the first pillar, which is entirely financed by the EU, second-pillar programmes are co-financed by EU funds and regional or national funds. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The European Ombudsman conducts inquiries into cases of maladministration by European Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, acting on their own initiative or on the basis of complaints from EU citizens, or any natural or legal person residing or having their registered office in a Member State. The Ombudsman is elected by the European Parliament for the duration of the parliamentary term. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Il est venu avec son To'ere Rima, un petit To'ere qu'on peut tenir à la main. Avec sa casquette de chanteur dans les deux groupes «Oke AA» et «Akeke Crew», mais aussi celle de professeur au conservatoire de musique.

Ukraine was granted EU candidate status in June 2022. Accession negotiations were opened in June 2024. While bilateral screening meetings of three thematic clusters have been completed, negotiations proper have not yet started, pending unanimous agreement of EU Member States. The European Parliament is calling for the timely organisation of subsequent intergovernmental conferences. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The internal market is an area that fosters prosperity and enables the free movement of goods, services, people and capital. As the world’s largest single market, it leverages its scale to create jobs, drive business opportunities and promote European standards globally. It also tackles ongoing global challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, which have led to restrictions of free movement and shortages of goods and services. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The EU’s relationship with the Pacific region has political, economic and development dimensions. The EU is the Pacific region’s second largest trading partner. Australia and New Zealand are the EU’s like-minded partners, facing common geostrategic challenges and promoting multilateralism and a global rules-based order. In June 2018, negotiations were launched for a comprehensive EU-Australia free trade agreement (FTA) and the fifteenth round of negotiations took place in April 2023. The EU signed an FTA with New Zealand in July 2023.Under the Samoa Agreement the EU has a partnership with the 15 Pacific Island Countries (PICs) that centres on development, fisheries and climate change. It also has partnerships with the three Pacific Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Teva Rohfritsch, sénateur de Polynésie française, était l'invité café de notre matinale radio ce jeudi 5 juin. Il est revenu sur les sujets qui font l'actualité de ces derniers jours : le sommet mondial sur l'océan qui se tient prochainement à Nice, le projet de loi sur l'aide à mourir et enfin le rapport sur le mode de scrutin des élections territoriales, rendu le 4 juin par les députés Polynésiens.

This briefing analyses the reasons behind changes to national Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs) and identifies potential drivers. It provides a reflection on the transparency of the process which may be of relevance to the remaining remaining duration of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), set to expire in August 2026, as well as the design of future EU instruments. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The EU launched digital partnerships with several Asian countries and Canada in 2022 and 2023, to promote human-centric, responsible, sustainable and inclusive technology governance. These partnerships help the EU to address vulnerabilities like foreign technology dependence and cybersecurity threats, aligning with its Indo-Pacific cooperation strategy. The EU and the partner countries usually meet once a year at ministerial level to discuss topics of mutual interest. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

This study focuses on the recent development of the market for plant-based seafood substitutes and the challenges that it has generated for the EU fisheries sector in terms of labelling. The study shows that potentially non-compliant marketing strategies indeed exist on a large scale, and provides an overview of national initiatives to tackle such issues. Finally, it proposes some adjustments to the current EU legal framework, to ensure that the labelling of novel products provides accurate information to consumers. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

453 agents contractuels dans les communes et établissements publics communaux votent ce mercredi 4 juin. Ils élisent leurs cinq représentants syndicaux qui siégeront au sein de la commission consultative paritaire. Une première pour ces agents non-fonctionnaires. Dans cet article, on s’intéresse à la commune de Papeete qui accueille le plus grand nombre de contractuels, soit 104 agents. Cette commission paritaire comptera dix membres : cinq représentants syndicaux et cinq employeurs dont des maires. Elle s’exprimera sur les licenciements, les congés spéciaux ou encore sur les autorisations de temps partiels ou de télétravail.

Le comité d’organisation des Jeux du Pacifique 2027 organise « Te Moana Day ». Une journée sportive, culturelle et environnementale prévue ce dimanche 8 juin à la pointe Vénus de Mahina. Des initiations sportives seront proposées, mais aussi des ateliers de familiarisation à la culture et à l’environnement. Les précisions dans cet article.

The European Union (EU) is seeking to boost its competitiveness to help ensure the well-being of its society in the face of global challenges. Central to this objective is the EU's innovation ecosystem, which has fallen behind the United States (US) and China. As innovative European companies grow, they struggle to attract the necessary technical and financial support within the continent. The European Commission plans to put forward a legislative proposal for a 28th regime as part of a programme of measures to boost the EU's innovation ecosystem. The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) is preparing a legislative-initiative report to inform the development of this proposal. This briefing, produced at the request of the committee, seeks to support its work on the file. The research identified four issues that are relevant for EU action: (1) the EU financial system has a low appetite for risk; (2) innovative companies struggle to attract workers (within the EU and beyond) with the relevant skills; (3) innovative companies face a high cost of failure and/or restructuring; and (4) there is high variation in laws affecting companies across the EU. While the proposed Savings and Investments Union could help to address the immediate and pressing demand for capital from innovative European companies, other measures such as the 28th regime could be complementary and offer European added value. Establishing one common set of EU-wide rules and introducing an EU stock option plan could boost the regime's attractiveness for innovative European companies. Embedding links to the EU innovation ecosystem and 'European preference' incentives could also be beneficial. Levelling the playing field for innovative European companies, particularly by reducing the period of time to establish a company, complete funding rounds and advance through the lifecycle, could help to attract venture capital and boost the number of innovative scale-ups. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Innovation plays an increasingly important role in our economy. As well as benefiting the EU’s consumers and workers, it is essential to creating better jobs, building a greener society and improving our quality of life. It is also key in maintaining the EU’s competitiveness on global markets. Innovation policy is the interface between research and technological development policy and industrial policy. It aims to create a framework conducive to bringing ideas to market. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Over the past decade, the EU has experienced major macroeconomic imbalances and serious divergences in competitiveness. These have both exacerbated the negative effects of the financial crisis that began in 2008 and prevented the effective use of common monetary policy measures to resolve them. In 2011, the EU set up the macroeconomic imbalance procedure to identify and correct such imbalances at national level, particularly those with the potential to spill over and affect other EU countries. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

EU-Russia relations have been strained since 2014 because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, support for separatist groups in eastern Ukraine, destabilisation policies in the neighbourhood, disinformation and interference campaigns and internal human rights violations. After Russia launched its unprovoked, unjustified and illegal war of aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the remaining political, cultural and scientific cooperation was suspended. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The Banking Union is based on a proposal that the European Commission presented in 2012, a few years after the severe financial crisis had started to unfold in the EU. The key innovation was to transfer responsibility for the day-to-day supervision of the largest banks in the euro area from national to European level. From then on, the European Central Bank (ECB) was put in charge of supervisory tasks, which it needed to keep strictly separate from its activities on monetary policy. Another institution – the Single Resolution Board (SRB) – was set up at European level to deal with the failure of large banks. The Commission had proposed a third element – a European deposit insurance scheme – but so far this has not found the necessary political support. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The European Economic Area (EEA) was set up in 1994 to extend the EU’s provisions on its internal market to the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) countries. The EEA’s parties are Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Switzerland is a member of EFTA, but not of the EEA. The EU and Nordic EEA EFTA partners (Norway and Iceland) are also linked by various ‘northern policies’ and forums that focus on the rapidly evolving northern reaches of Europe and the Arctic region as a whole. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Les Jeux du Pacifique avancent à grands pas. Deux ans avant le début de la compétition reconnue par le comité olympique, le comité organisateur local, commencent déjà à fédérer la population autour de l’événement futur. Le Te Moana sera gratuit, ce 8 juin à la Pointe Vénus.

L’école de Pamata’i utilise son aire marine protégée pour faire connaître la faune marine à ses élèves. Un moyen pour eux d’apprendre de façon pratique, les noms des animaux marins.

La maladie était présente chez nous en 2014, 2015 : elle a touché ¾ de la Population et aujourd'hui, les autorités veulent empêcher son retour. Le virus est déjà au stade épidémique à La Réunion. Il a causé le décès de 6 personnes.

L’eau courante de Papeete est 100% potable depuis 30 ans. Une piqûre de rappel donnée par la municipalité pour les personnes qui auraient peut-être oublié. Elle a convié les médias ce mardi matin pour rappeler et inciter ses usagers à consommer son eau courante.

L'exercice ORSEC 2025, en cas de tsunami, a été organisé aujourd'hui par les services de l'Etat. Il vise notamment à tester les dispositifs d'alerte et de coordination de la sécurité civile en cas de raz de marée. Le système national d'alerte sur téléphones mobiles et les sirènes dans les communes concernées ont été délenchées, après un avertissement d'activité sismique d'ampleur par le laboratoire de géophysique. Durant cet exercice, la chronologie de la réponse à l'alerte tsunami a été respectée du début à la fin. Les services de l’État, du Pays et des communes, ainsi que les opérateurs et acteurs impliqués dans la gestion de crise, ont tous été mobilisés.

Une grande figure du paysage sportif polynésien s'en est allée. Errol Bennett est décédé à l'âge de 75 ans.

Differences between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) over the regulation of online platforms have taken on a new dimension under the Trump administration. Senior members of the US administration have strongly criticised the EU for 'limiting free speech' and have called the EU's content moderation law 'incompatible with America's free speech tradition'. Much of the debate is informed by misconceptions and misunderstandings. The differences between the US and EU hate speech regimes are striking, largely for historical reasons. The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides almost absolute protection to freedom of expression. By contrast, European and EU law curtails the right to freedom of expression. Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, which applies to all EU Member States, states that freedom of expressions 'carries with it duties and responsibilities'. In a democratic society, restrictions may be imposed in the interest, among others, 'of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others'. EU legislation criminalises hate speech that publicly incites to violence or hatred and targets a set of protected characteristics: race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin. Even though legislation in EU Member States varies widely, many have extended protection from hate speech to additional characteristics. In light of the exponential growth of the internet and the use of social media, the debate about hate speech has essentially become about regulating social media companies. The focus has been on the question of whether and to what extent service providers are responsible for removing hate speech published on social media platforms. The US has opted not to impose any obligation on social media companies to remove content created by third parties, merely granting them the right to restrict access to certain material deemed to be 'obscene' or 'otherwise objectionable'. By contrast, the EU has adopted regulation that obliges companies to remove offensive content created by third parties, including hate speech, once it is brought to their attention. Social media companies also self-regulate, by adopting community guidelines that allow users to flag hate speech and ask for its removal. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The Trans-European Networks (TENs) are jointly funded by the European Union and the Member States. Financial support from the EU serves as a catalyst, with the Member States providing the bulk of the financing. The financing of the TENs can be complemented by Structural Fund assistance, aid from the European Investment Bank (EIB) or contributions from the private sector. A major reform was introduced across the TENs with the establishment of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in 2013, renewed in 2021. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The World Trade Organization (WTO) works to guarantee a rules-based international trading system. Despite the impasse in trade negotiations, ways to modernise WTO rules and address new global challenges are being explored. Under the Lisbon Treaty, Parliament legislates jointly with the Council, has to approve any changes or new WTO agreements and has an important scrutiny role on international trade policy. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

On 1 July 2013, Croatia became the 28th (now 27th) Member State of the European Union. Since then, no other countries have joined the EU, and the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020. Accession negotiations and chapters have been opened with Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and Türkiye. North Macedonia opened accession negotiations in July 2022, and Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2024. Kosovo submitted its application for EU membership in December 2022. In December 2023, the EU decided to open accession negotiations with Moldova and Ukraine and to grant candidate country status to Georgia. In late November 2024, the Georgian Government decided not to pursue the opening of accession negotiations and rejected EU financial support until 2028. (5.5.6 and 5.5.7). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The EU’s Eastern Partnership policy, initiated in 2009, covers six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. It was created to support political, social and economic reform efforts in these countries with the aim of increasing democratisation and good governance, energy security, environmental protection, and economic and social development. All the participating countries (except Belarus whose membership is suspended) send delegations to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The origins of the European Parliament lie in the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which became the common assembly of the three supranational European communities that existed at the time. The assembly subsequently acquired the name ‘European Parliament’. Over time, the institution, whose members have been directly elected since 1979, has undergone profound changes, evolving from an assembly with appointed members to an elected parliament that is recognised as a political agenda-setter of the European Union. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Fierté des jeunes et reconnaissance des parents... Ils étaient 31 lycéens âgés de 16 à 18 ans à avoir participé au dispositif Volontaires Jeunes Cadets. Ce lundi matin a eu lieu la cérémonie de clôture de leur promotion. Un évènement rempli d'émotions.

Une délégation d'une trentaine de danseurs, danseuses, musiciens et choristes du groupe O Tahiti E a quitté Tahiti samedi 31 mai, direction les îles Hawaii. Leur mission : représenter la richesse de la culture polynésienne au Hawai‘i Kuauli Pacific & Asia Cultural Festival. Un événement culturel majeur qui célèbre pour la 8e fois la diversité des traditions du Pacifique et d’Asie.