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European textile companies increasingly overburdened by regulation say each new piece of European Union (EU) regulation they face should be assessed on the grounds of how it helps industry succeed in an increasingly competitive market. They say more should be done to boost a sector that employs 1.3 million workers in 192,000 companies and provides more than EUR67 billion’s worth of exports to the 27-country bloc, according to the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex).…

While energy price rises have started levelling off after 2022 steep inflation, the need to boost sustainable electricity capacity in Europe, carried by strengthened transmission networks, boosting security of supply against unreliable partners such as Russia and further reduce carbon emissions, is becoming ever more pressing.…

Students in Burkina Faso and Niger blocked from attending courses in France through that country’s withdrawal of visa facilities are being urged to consider alternative higher education options for the upcoming academic year.

With the French government standing firm over its closure of consular services in these countries, and neighbouring Mali, all run by military governments having poor relations with Paris, their students are running out of time to take-up places in France universities.…

Humanitarians have claimed that sub-Saharan university students were part of mass border expulsions by Tunisian security forces in July as universities within the north African country note reduced registrations by black African students.

Tunisian humanitarian association Enfants de la Lune’s https://www.facebook.com/XPtunisie…

Tunisia’s clothing and textile sector driven ahead with its near-sourcing export promotion, despite the political turmoil facing the country, where President Kais Saied has since 2019 suspended parliament, dismissed governments, imprisoned opposition leaders, undermining judicial independence and helped fuel anti-refugee and migrant violence.…

A groundbreaking collaboration between Tunisia and China has yielded plans to develop a pioneering laboratory, solely dedicated to the realm of plasma physics, a key element of nuclear fusion research. The lab would be established in Tunisia’s prestigious National Engineering School of Tunis, within the University of Tunis – El Manar, in central Tunis, Tunisia’s capital.…

International AML/CFT rules and guidance have been designed to help governments crack down on criminals and terrorists, but there are few guiderails to prevent states from abusing these tools to target political opponents. Given the membership of FATF and FATF-style regional bodies, and the Egmont Group of FIUs is practically universal, that means AML/CFT systems are available to authoritarian states.…

Law professors, human rights lawyers and civil society groups have published a petition demanding the release of political prisoners in Tunisia, warning that such democratic regressions harm both the practice and teaching of law to the new generation of students.…

The University of Manouba in Tunis, Tunisia, has said it will withdraw the title of emeritus professor from a historian and former dean of its faculty of arts, letters and humanities over his participation in an international academic symposium in Paris alongside Israeli academics.…

Students from sub-Saharan African countries in Tunisia say that they are being discriminated against in the country’s banks and post offices, preventing them from receiving international money transfers to pay for essentials, including food.

They and executives of the Association for African Students and Stagiaires in Tunisia (AESAT – Association des Étudiants et Stagiaires Africains en Tunisie) told UWN that many banks and branches of La Poste Tunisienne are refusing to hand over the money sent by their parents and blocking them from opening personal bank accounts if they lack a full residency permit – a ‘carte de séjour définitif’.…