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Bally Bagayoko explained that his group abstained during the vote on a wish presented by the opposition elected officials from the Socialist, Environmentalists, and Citizens group at the municipal council. The text focused on the protection of girls and women against excision and female genital mutilation, as well as the adoption of a comprehensive law against sexist and sexual violence (SSV). He said that his group supported the fight against mutilations and reminded that nearly 500 patients received follow-up each year in the municipality. He also praised the work of the Women's House, Delafontaine Hospital, and various associations, and asked the State to strengthen the resources allocated for prevention and medical follow-up. According to Bally Bagayoko, the abstention concerned the request to quickly adopt the law on SSV. He indicated that the bill had been significantly amended in committee at the National Assembly the week of the municipal council, and its content remained uncertain. His group had asked to remove references to this law from the wish in order to be able to vote in favor of the text on the fight against excision, but the opposition had refused, he wrote. He believed that this refusal had hindered the pursuit of an agreement and denounced a political instrumentalization of the issue. The group ultimately abstained in order not to block the wish, which was adopted, while not supporting all of its content, he noted. #Excision #DroitsDesFemmes #LutteContreLesViolences (translated)

The cabinet has held a positive first conversation with social partners about a social agreement, during which trade unions confirmed that actions have been suspended and there is consensus on the urgency to continue negotiations. #sociaalakkoord #vakbonden #onderhandelingen (translated)

Maranello Paddock wrote that Lewis Hamilton had formed a team of engineers at Ferrari that included people outside the historical circle of the Scuderia. According to the post, sources close to the driver described a method different from the usual routine, which relied on his feedback to better identify the car's problems and the priorities to address. The seven-time world champion was also said to have been recruited to help evolve working methods, thanks to his experience in winning teams and his influence. His approach reportedly elicited mixed reactions within the team. The post estimated that the group formed around Hamilton constituted the strongest core of this approach, but the next step was to broaden the consensus. It claimed that Hamilton had leeway to analyze the functioning of the team that Fernando Alonso had not benefited from and that Sebastian Vettel had even less. Carlos Sainz had reportedly established a methodical dialogue with the engineers. According to the post, Hamilton could bring a different experience and contribute to change, a mission that would have been implicit from his arrival. Maranello Paddock also wrote that Charles Leclerc, who had spent his entire career at Ferrari, did not have the same external benchmarks and often had to compensate on track for unresolved issues. However, the post indicated that Leclerc had moved closer to his teammate's perspective, which he found interesting. It was estimated that this convergence could strengthen the drivers' demands if their different approaches led them to face the same difficulties. According to the post, Hamilton's recent statements reflected this evolution: he still wanted changes but had to convince the management to accept new technical practices, using arguments, evidence, and a broader consensus. Maranello Paddock added that he needed to prioritize internal dialogue and avoid putting pressure on Frédéric Vasseur. Discussions about the future of the director could have complicated the process, while support for Vasseur could, according to the post, help continue the changes already underway. Finally, Maranello Paddock called Hamilton's podium finish in Sepang an encouraging sign and estimated that his influence would depend on the ability to extend the method developed with his engineers to the entire team. The post referred to an article by Giuly Duchessa for more information. https://t.co/lzVgcJhYJp) #Ferrari #Hamilton #F1 (translated)

This article discusses the position of Boris Dilliès, the Brussels Minister-President, who prioritizes consensus within his executive, similar to Alexander De Croo, but risks seeing his party, the MR, lose influence against its socialist partners. #BorisDilliès #PolitiqueBelge #Consensus (translated)

"What is certain is that one cannot claim to have a dialogue and then make decisions or measures that are brutal or, in any case, do not rely on a consensus arising from a dialogue," asserted French Minister of Foreign Trade Nicolas Forissier to AFP. #Gazole #UnionEuropéenne #PrixDeLénergie (translated)

Heinen calculates a 2% return for 'small savers and investors'. I want to show you how ridiculously low that is. The average return on stocks is 12%: - S&P 500 or AEX - Over 40 years - With reinvestment of dividends It is distributed like this: - 25% of the years have negative returns (average -15%) - 75% of the years have positive returns (average +20%) In the positive years, you already pay tax with a 20% return on an asset of 5,000 euros and a tax-free result of 1,000 euros. Now the tax-free asset limit is 59,357 euros. Soon, the equivalent for investors will be 5,000 euros. "Yes, but many people are savers." That's right. That's exactly what we want to move away from. If there is one thing that we can agree on in Europe and the Netherlands, it's that people need to invest more. By the way, I think we should completely abolish the tax-free result and translate it into a lower rate. It's a logical concept for vab, but it mainly causes disruptions for vwb. #beleggen #rendement #financiën (translated)

Le Parti Québécois s’engage à défendre la laïcité québécoise Je réitère aujourd’hui mon engagement envers le consensus québécois sur la laïcité. Alors que certains partis politiques seraient tentés de faire reculer le Québec s’ils étaient portés au pouvoir, le Parti Québécois fera tout le contraire. Non seulement nous allons défendre notre modèle de laïcité au Québec, qui sera attaqué dans les prochains mois et dans les prochaines années devant les tribunaux canadiens, mais nous allons également bonifier la loi sur la laïcité. Bien que cette loi comporte des avancées, elle demeure néanmoins imparfaite, puisqu’elle n’a pas su empêcher les épisodes d'entrisme religieux, notamment à l’École Bedford. Le Parti Québécois s’engage donc à maintenir les acquis de la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État dans sa forme actuelle, notamment les lois 21 et 94, et à reconduire l'usage de la clause dérogatoire. Il s’engage également à ajouter les mesures suivantes, à la lumière des constats dressés sept ans après l’adoption de la loi : 🔹Cesser le financement des écoles religieuses, c’est-à-dire des écoles qui bénéficient du crédit d’impôt à titre d’organisme religieux ; 🔹Interdire, pour tous les élèves du primaire, le port des tenues et signes religieux ostensibles dont le port conduit à se faire reconnaître immédiatement par son appartenance religieuse ; 🔹Interdire les partenariats entre les écoles et les lieux de culte ; 🔹Mieux encadrer les organismes religieux et communautaires en : -modifiant la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État pour enregistrer les lieux de culte sous une vraie dénomination de lieu de culte ; -modifiant la Loi sur les impôts pour exiger la déclaration des dons étrangers faits aux organismes religieux ; 🔹Documenter l’entrisme et les influences religieuses dans les écoles québécoises ; 🔹Augmenter la vigilance en matière de protection de la jeunesse pour protéger les mineurs qui sont entraînés dans des sectes. Les Québécois sont attachés à la laïcité et peuvent être certains qu’en appuyant le Parti Québécois, ils auront le meilleur parti pour défendre ce principe qui leur est cher. #Laïcité #Québec #PartiQuébécois

L'ambassadeur de France au numérique, Adrien Abecassis, affirme qu'un consensus international minimisé sur la régulation de l'intelligence artificielle est possible, malgré les rivalités entre grandes puissances, afin de prévenir les risques liés à cette technologie en pleine expansion. #IntelligenceArtificielle #GouvernanceInternational #SécuritéNumérique

Trump a raison. Il ne faut pas se leurrer. Il n'y aura jamais de consensus international pour limiter l"évolution de l'IA. Donc, s'imposer des barrières, c'est simplement laisser d'autres pays aller de l'avant et finir par dominer les autres. Le pays qui progressera le plus rapidement dans le domaine de la "super intelligence" sera celui qui se hissera au sommet de la chaîne alimentaire mondiale. https://t.co/llSscj3aDz #IA #IntelligenceArtificielle #Innovation

Støre, Stubb & others must give their negotiators clear instructions: don’t allow a few countries opposed to rules to set the ceiling for everyone else. Secure a mandate to negotiate a new treaty—and, if consensus is once again used as a veto, take negotiations elsewhere #Negotiations #Treaty #Consensus #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

La désindexation des retraites vu l'état cataclysmique de nos finances publiques ne devrait même pas faire débat. Il devrait y avoir un grand consensus sur le sujet. Une société n'a de sens que pour sauver les générations futures. Même les retraités devaient y voir leur intérêt, #Retraites #FinancesPubliques #Consensus #FR

Funny how pacing AI down became consensus overnight but saying it 6 months ago would've gotten you called a luddite and AI doomer. I'm used to it because my work warns about tech overtaking humans, but now that even the tech giants agree I understand I might've underestimated it. https://t.co/eR3vxvy5mp #AIEthics #TechDebate #Luddite #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

Consensus Is Not an Argument “Historians agree that Nazism was right-wing” is not an argument. It is intellectual outsourcing: replacing evidence with the number of authorities who repeat the same conclusion. Ideologies require criteria. You cannot cherry-pick political characteristics, notice that they fit your preferred category, and then pretend the classification has been demonstrated—especially when virtually every item on the list exists on both sides. Nationalism? Both. Militarism? Both. Protectionism? Both. State intervention? Both. Economic planning? Both. Collectivism? Both. Welfare policy? Both. Authoritarianism? Neither side has a monopoly. So what actually makes Nazism “right-wing”? The economic argument collapses even faster. Nazi Germany heavily directed its economy. So did the United States and Britain during the same period of war preparation and total war. If state direction proves socialism, then your criterion suddenly makes the Allies socialist too. If it doesn’t, stop using it selectively to classify Nazism. You cannot rig the test and then celebrate the result. And here is the inconvenient part: if economic policy cannot independently resolve the question, then the Nazis’ own ideological claims cannot simply be dismissed because they are inconvenient. Their party was literally called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, and they repeatedly described their movement as socialist. No, self-description does not automatically make them socialist. Political movements can lie. But rejecting their description requires an actual criterion demonstrating why it was false. “Because historians say so” is not a criterion. It is an evasion. The deeper problem is that modern political taxonomy often works backwards: decide the label first, then curate the evidence until the label looks inevitable. That is not historical analysis. It is circular reasoning wearing an academic costume. So ask the question that actually matters: was Nazism committed to individual liberty—or to subordinating the individual to the collective, the state, and the nation? If Nazism is right-wing, prove it from coherent ideological principles

Minister Hermans over westnijlvirus: ‘Voorkom muggenbeten, slaap onder een klamboe’ https://t.co/63QlALcdQR Onder de #klamboe in het bos. Onder de klamboe in het park. Onder de klamboe op de fiets. Onder de klamboe in de auto. Onder de klamboe over straat. Onder de klamboe bij het hardlopen. Onder de klamboe bij het wandelen. Onder de klamboe in de supermarkt. Onder de klamboe bij de visboer. Onder de klamboe in de kroeg. Onder de klamboe in het theater. Onder de klamboe bij een concert. Onder de klamboe in het restaurant (behalve als je zit). Onder de klamboe in de sportschool. Onder de klamboe op school. (Alleen op de gang). Onder de klamboe bij de dokter. Onder de klamboe in het ziekenhuis. Onder de klamboe op de operatiekamer. Onder de klamboe tijdens het skiën. Onder de klamboe in de ski-lift. Onder de klamboe in het vliegtuig. Vergeet ik dan nog iets? Oh ja... Sex onder de klamboe. Maar alleen op zijn hondjes. Zonder klamboe mag u alleen maar thuis blijven. Maar wel onder de klamboe. En er moet een klamboe-OMT komen. En een RedKlamboe-team. Heeft @KlokPieter al een Klamboe-consensus afgekondigd? En is Klamboe-Maarten al in stelling gebracht. Is @MarionKoopmans al op zoek naar de oorsprong van de Klamboe-mug? En is er al een Klamboe-vaccin? Boe. Gewoon boe. Klamboe. #westnijlvirus #klamboe #gezondheid