Council Directive 2011/64/EU, known as the Tobacco Taxation Directive (TTD), entered into force in 2011 with two main objectives: to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market and provide a high level of public health protection. More than ten years after its adoption, the directive is no longer fit for purpose. The European Commission's 2020 evaluation highlights several key issues regarding the TTD's effectiveness, and recommends updating it to address emerging tobacco products, such as e cigarettes. As part of the EU's Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission suggested revising the TTD to achieve the target of a tobacco-free generation by 2040. In July 2025, the Commission presented its proposal for a revision of the TTD, focusing on three main aspects: i) increasing the EU's minimum tax rate to address disparities between Member States; ii) extending the directive's scope to new products, such as e cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches, which would make them subject to new minimum taxes; and iii) strengthening controls on raw tobacco to prevent diversion to illicit markets. This implementation appraisal (IA) analyses the existing legal framework and outlines its core components. It also examines the key findings of the 2020 evaluation and the main features of the Commission proposal for revision of the TTD. Finally, it considers the European Parliament's position, the written questions submitted by its Members and the views of a sample of relevant stakeholders, including institutional bodies. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

At no point in more than 30 years have Armenia and Azerbaijan been closer to achieving lasting peace, and yet the so far bumpy road to peace continues to appear vulnerable to domestic and external factors. On 8 August 2025, in Washington DC, the leaders of both countries signed a Joint Declaration committing to achieve peace and initialled a 17-article peace agreement, the product of months of closed-doors and exclusively bilateral negotiations between the two countries. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in conflict over Nagorno Karabakh since the end of the Cold War, in the longest-running conflict in the post-Soviet space. Two bloody war episodes, in the 1990s and in 2020, have alternated with periods of frozen conflict over three decades, leaving behind more than 30 000 casualties, over a million displaced people from both sides, and a long list of seemingly inextricable mutual grievances running deep in both countries' societies. Decades of international mediation, within the OSCE Minsk group, then in parallel strands under the aegis of Russia, the EU and the US, ended abruptly in September 2023, with Azerbaijan's lightning military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, leading within days to the dissolution of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and to the forced exodus of some 100 000 ethnic Armenians. In the dangerous security vacuum created after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which altered the power balance in the region and discredited the role of Russia as security guarantor and peace broker, fears over a third war intensified. Against all odds, after months of exclusively bilateral negotiations, both parties announced in March 2025 that they had agreed on a draft peace treaty, establishing the basis for future peaceful mutual relations but leaving aside contentious issues, such as border delimitation and connectivity. However, the announcement came with Azerbaijan's precondition, ahead of the final signature, of removing from the preamble of the Armenian constitution a reference that Azerbaijan considered to be an implicit territorial claim. The seemingly impossible task for Armenia, where a constitutional change must be approved by popular referendum, appeared to put the peace process in limbo sine die. The 8 August Washington Summit gave a decisive new impetus to the process, although Azerbaijan maintains its precondition regarding what it sees as necessary changes to the Armenian constitution. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

La Direction de l'environnement a installé son village environnemental au Tahiti Soul Jazz Festival ce samedi 25 octobre. Gratuit et ouvert toute la journée dans les jardins du musée de Tahiti, cet événement familial a réuni une quarantaine d'acteurs locaux engagés dans l'éco-responsabilité.

La professeure de chant lyrique Emmanuelle Vidal-Hiomai épouse Cavallo est décédée dans la nuit du 24 octobre 2025. Première cantatrice tahitienne et figure majeure de la scène lyrique locale, elle a consacré sa vie à prouver que la voix polynésienne avait sa place dans l'opéra et que la langue tahitienne pouvait résonner dans les plus grandes œuvres du répertoire classique.

Ce samedi 25 octobre, une quarantaine d’étudiants de la prépa HEC du lycée Paul-Gauguin se sont mobilisés pour une grande opération de nettoyage sur les plages d’Ahonu et d’Orofara, aux côtés de l’association Mama Natura.

L'ancien locataire de la rue Oudinot a été auditionné par la délégation aux Outre-mer de l’Assemblée nationale, le 21 octobre. Il reconnaît que sa proposition de «souveraineté avec la France» à Deva était un projet d'État associé. Concernant Bougival, l'audition de Manuel Valls ne lève en rien les ambiguïtés autour de la notion de «projet d'accord» ou «d'accord» soulevées par le FLNKS.

Face au fléau des violences intrafamiliales, le conseil économique, social, environnemental et culturel lance une étude de quatre mois pour dresser un état des lieux sans concession et proposer des solutions concrètes.

La Hawaiki Nui Va'a 2025 approche à grand pas. Nombre d'équipages, nouveauté, contrôle anti-dopage, recommandation... Louis Mai'otu'i, vice-président du comité organisateur de la Hawaiki Nui Va'a, était l'invité de notre journal télévisé ce vendredi 24 octobre.

C'est une première en Polynésie française. Le Haut-commissaire Alexandre Rochatte vient d'ordonner la fermeture d'un établissement de restauration rapide boulevard Pomare, condamné pour blanchiment. Une mesure rendue possible par la loi anti-narcotrafic de juin 2025.

C’est l’incertitude concernant la participation de l’équipe de boxe Polynésie française aux prochains Jeux du Pacifique. En cause, l’absence de délégation de service public. Depuis 2023, aucune des deux fédérations de boxe présentes en Polynésie n’a reçu cet agrément. Et sans cette DSP, pas d’équipe de boxe aux prochains Jeux qui se dérouleront au fenua du 24 juillet au 6 août 2027.

Jean-Marie Collin, directeur d'ICAN France, et le journaliste Nic Maclellan étaient ce vendredi 24 octobre à l'Assemblée pour sensibiliser sept élus indépendantistes aux enjeux du Traité d'interdiction des armes nucléaires. Une rencontre qui pointe le double discours de l'État français.

Entre ralentissement économique, promesses sociales contre la vie chère et affirmation politique sur l'autodétermination, les orientations budgétaires 2026 de la Polynésie française dessinent une navigation délicate pour le gouvernement Brotherson à mi-mandat.

Hawaiki Nui Va'a J moins 5 ! Le Tahiti nui et le Tahiti nui 8 ont commencé à embarquer les V6 prévues pour la course entre Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa et Bora Bora ! Au total, 243 va'a évolueront sur le plan d'eau des îles Sous-le-Vent toutes catégories et courses confondues. Ce vendredi, il fallait faire attention à bien disposer la centaine de pirogues dans le bateau de la flottille administrative.

Rebondissement dans l'affaire JPK. L'ancien président Gaston Flosse a été auditionné en tant que témoin, pour la première fois, dans cette affaire de la disparition non élucidée du journaliste et opposant Jean-Pascal Couraud en 1997 en Polynésie française, selon le procès-verbal dont l'AFP a pris connaissance jeudi.

This study investigates the integration and effects of artificial intelligence and algorithmic management (AM) technologies within European workplaces, extending beyond the realm of platform work. It thoroughly examines the European regulatory framework for the use of AM technologies, engages in stakeholder interviews, and analyses case studies within the logistics, healthcare, telecoms, automotive and manufacturing sectors, revealing notable gaps in worker protection and regulatory oversight. The study estimates that exposure to AM could rise from 42.3 % to 55.5 % in the medium term, generating productivity opportunities but also challenges in employment relations, working conditions and workers' wellbeing. It identifies key regulatory gaps in AM use at work, and explores the role EU legislation could play both in addressing the gaps and in guaranteeing responsible use of AM in the workplace. It develops three policy options: adopting a recommendation; amending a package of existing legislation; and adopting a new legislative instrument to regulate the use of AM. The added value of acting at EU level has been identified in ensuring the same level of protection for all workers, improving working conditions and safeguarding fundamental rights. For companies, having a common set of rules would enhance the level playing field and increase legal certainty. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

In this paper, we propose a multistep algorithmic method that enables us to determine the seat allocation for the European Parliament on a permanent basis applicable across various scenarios, including different numbers of Member States and their population sizes. According to the Lisbon Treaty, the allocation of seats must take into account a number of constraints regarding the minimum and maximum number of seats allocated to each Member State, the maximum size of the European Parliament, and degressive proportionality. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

This briefing outlines recent and past developments concerning Romania's fiscal situation and the steps taken under the Excessive Deficit Procedure. On 4 June 2025, the Commission issued a recommendation stating that Romania had failed to take effective corrective action. The Council adopted a decision in this regard on 20 June. In July 2025, the Council required Romania to present measures by 15 October 2025; Romania has since adopted two fiscal packages. Because of the June Council decision, the Commission would be obliged to propose the suspension of payments or commitments under the ESI Funds and the RRF. This briefing reviews Romania's macroeconomic and fiscal situation (Section 1), EDP developments including fiscal packages adopted (Section 2), Country-Specific Recommendations (Section 3), EU funds at stake (Section 4), the legal framework for suspensions (Section 5), and the role of the European Parliament with lessons from the 2016 Spain-Portugal precedent (Section 6). Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

The United States (US) Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is the world's largest, comprising over 60 000 companies and 1.17 million employees. It is dominated by five major corporations – Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman – which together account for around one third of US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts and half of the revenue of the top 100 defence companies in the world. While the DIB sustains US technological dominance, it faces challenges linked to market consolidation, supply chain resilience and workforce shortages. The 2023 Biden administration's National Defense Industrial Strategy seeks to address these issues, among other things, through enhanced supply chain resilience, workforce development and flexible acquisition. However, experts expect vast changes, including for the DIB, in strategy under the new Trump administration's national defence strategy that is currently being developed. By contrast, the European defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) remains fragmented, and has been under-invested in for decades. In 2024, EU defence spending reached €343 billion, roughly 2.5 times less than the US level (around €864 billion in 2024), with a large part of procurement sourced from the US. The 2024 European defence industrial strategy and the European defence industry programme aim to strengthen European defence industrial sovereignty, promote collaborative procurement, and emphasise a 'Buy European' approach. The European Parliament supports close EU–US cooperation but insists that EU programmes must primarily reinforce the EDTIB and increase strategic autonomy.  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 Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy is part of the European Union’s Green Deal, which aims to make the EU climate-neutral by 2050. The F2F Strategy is a policy framework setting out policy goals and initiatives designed to make the European Union’s food system more sustainable and environmentally friendly. The strategy comprises both regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives, with the common agricultural and fisheries policies as key tools to support a just transition. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Un touriste sexagénaire a été retrouvé sans vie, gisant «à moitié sur la plage» dans la matinée. Son entourage était sans nouvelle de lui depuis la veille.

Du 30 octobre au 2 novembre 2025, le Tahiti Tattoo Fest revient pour une 2e édition au Hilton Hotel Tahiti. Pendant quatre jours, 56 artistes locaux et internationaux célébreront le tātau, entre héritage ancestral et création contemporaine.

La championne du monde de pâtisserie, Nina Métayer, anime une battle culinaire à la Présidence, en présence de classes de 4e et transmise en direct pour les élèves des îles.

Un incident technique a contraint les pilotes d'un ATR 72 d'Air Tahiti en approche finale de la piste de Nuku Hiva à remettre les gaz. Cela s'est passé le 29 septembre dernier. L'appareil a ensuite atterri sans problème. Le BEA a ouvert une enquête.

Nommée ministre des Outre-mer dans le gouvernement de Sébastien Lecornu, Naïma Moutchou hérite de nombreux dossiers urgents à gérer, notamment celui de la Nouvelle-Calédonie ou encore la loi sur la vie chère. Elle a accordé un entretien à Outre-mer La 1ère.

Hinaupoko Deveze se donne les moyens pour faire briller la Polynésie à Miss France 2026. La grande soirée aura lieu le 6 décembre à Amiens. À quelques jours du départ, Miss Tahiti poursuit sa préparation avant de rejoindre les 29 autres candidates pour un séjour de cohésion en Martinique.

In October 2025, for the first time in its history, Japan elected a female prime minister. Takaichi Sanae won the race for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and was later elected by both chambers of the National Diet (Japan's parliament). She will lead a minority government, formed in a new coalition with the right-leaning Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai), after Kōmeitō ended its 26-year alliance with the LDP. Takaichi, known for her hardline stance, will face numerous challenges in her new role. She must focus on rebuilding public trust in politics, especially after her party's involvement in a slush-fund scandal, and navigate a fractured political landscape to pass crucial legislation. The government must address the Japanese public's main concerns, such as inflation and declining real wages. The task is complicated by modest growth (about 1 % of GDP) and high gross government debt (about 230 % of GDP), all against the backdrop of acute demographic crisis. Takaichi aims to implement an expansionary fiscal policy and limit the Bank of Japan's autonomy on monetary policy. Japan currently finds itself in a complex geopolitical environment, surrounded by authoritarian and nuclear-armed neighbours. The United States (US) – Japan alliance remains a cornerstone of Tokyo's foreign policy, but it has faced challenges under US President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to visit Japan in late October 2025. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

In this paper, we propose a multistep algorithmic method that enables us to determine the seat allocation for the European Parliament on a permanent basis applicable across various scenarios, including different numbers of Member States and their population sizes. According to the Lisbon Treaty, the allocation of seats must take into account a number of constraints regarding the minimum and maximum number of seats allocated to each Member State, the maximum size of the European Parliament, and degressive proportionality. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

In line with the Erasmus+ Regulation for 2021-2027, the European Commission conducted an evaluation covering Erasmus+ actions for the period 2014-2023. It comprises both an interim evaluation of the current 2021-2027 programme and a final evaluation of the 2014-2020 programme. Across both programme generations, the evaluation found that Erasmus+ delivered significant European added value, performing well against key evaluation criteria and effectively achieving its objectives. It yielded substantial benefits for individuals, organisations and the wider education, training, youth and sport sectors, providing opportunities for personal, educational and professional growth of learners and staff, for cross-border cooperation among organisations and for policy development. Erasmus+ funded learning mobility abroad for over 6.2 million participants in 2014-2020 and around 1.6 million in 2021-2023. The share of participants with fewer opportunities increased from around 10 % in 2014-2020 to around 15 % in 2023. Furthermore, Erasmus+ provided funding to over 136 000 distinct organisations in the 2014-2020 programme and more than 77 000 from 2021 to 2023. For most programme actions, demand for funding exceeded the available resources in both programming periods. The evaluation also highlighted areas for improvement to inform and support enhancements to the programme, such as reinforcing its inclusivity and accessibility, building greater synergies with other EU programmes, and widening international cooperation. Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

Invitée de Faustine Bollaert dans l'émission «ça commence aujourd’hui», la miss France 2019 a confirmé qu'elle avait repris ses études en sciences politiques, et «ambitionne peut-être plus tard, une carrière politique en Polynésie».

Sécheresse, vent et feu domestique mal maîtrisé. C'est la troisième habitation à être la proie des flammes, en moins de 10 jours. Il ne reste plus rien de l'annexe au fare familial, comme à Moorea la semaine dernière et Mahina le week-end passé.

Après avoir favorisé «le dialogue politique plutôt que la voie judiciaire», Moetai Brotherson passe à l'action, quelques semaines après avoir évoqué cette éventualité devant la 4ème commission onusienne à New York.

Remonter le plus grand archipel de Polynésie à bord de pirogues à voiles holopuni, c'est l'aventure que vivent actuellement des navigateurs. Leur arrivée hier à Makemo n'est pas passée inaperçue. Un premier tronçon accompli sur les 4 que compte leur périple.

La gendarmerie lance un appel à témoins concernant la disparition de Ionekura Maa, 16 ans, qui a fugué.

Les Américains n'hésitent plus à traquer les narcotrafiquants partout. Une nouvelle frappe américaine contre un bateau de narcotrafiquants présumés a fait deux morts, cette fois-ci dans l'océan Pacifique.