Year: 2018

“CV-Video for employment, innovative web platform for employment and equal opportunities

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The association Foundation Act Against Exclusion “FACE Tunisia” launched Friday the project “the CV-Video for employment”, an innovative web platform for employment and equal opportunities (www.facealemploi .TV) “The particularity of this digital platform is to introduce the concept of video CV and video job postings, which will make it easier to find suitable profiles for companies that will better identify candidates and gain time and resources”, said Zahra Ben Naser, President of FACE Tunisia during a ceremony held in Tunis. “Considered as a lever for social inclusion, this project aims…

EU report welcomes work to strengthen EU-Tunisia relations

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The European Commission and the European External Action Service have published a progress report on efforts to strengthen EU-Tunisia relations. Significant work has been undertaken over the last 12 months to strengthen EU-Tunisia relations, and the new report by the two organisations comes ahead of a meeting of the EU-Tunisia Association Council in Brussels, Belgium, next Tuesday (15 May). The report identifies a number of key areas in which the partners aimed to make progress over the last year, and concludes that tangible improvements have been made across many sectors. These include:…

Tourism to ‘prevail’ over terror threat

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Tourism growth “will prevail” over security threats from terrorism, Tui Group chief executive Fritz Joussen has insisted. Tui returned to Tunisia from the UK last week for the first time since the massacre of 38 people, including 30 Tui UK customers, in Sousse in June 2015 and Joussen said: “Sousse was an incredible tragedy. These are scenes you do not forget.” Speaking at the release of Tui half-year results in Hamburg on Wednesday, Joussen said: “Terrorism is not only an issue for tourism. You see it in major cities. It…

Arab Index: 74% of Arabs support establishment of democratic regime in their countries

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The results of the survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies showed that 74 per cent of the respondents in 11 Arab countries support democracy, compared to 16 per cent of the respondents who reject the establishment of democracy in their countries. These results were announced at  a press conference, on Wednesday at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, to launch the 2018 Arab Index survey. The Arab Index surveyed 18,830 citizens in Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq,…

Libyan-Tunisian trade set to increase in 2018 : General Union of Libyan Chambers

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The head of the General Union of Libyan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Mohamed al-Raeid, predicted a rise in trade between Libya and Tunisia this year due to measures put in place to facilitate trade between the two countries, the Tripoli-based LANA state news agency reported today. “The volume of trade between the two countries is expected to reach about LD 900 million dinars (US$ 643 million) in 2018, compared to about LD 500 million (US$ 357 million) in 2017’’, he said. Raeid said the reason for last year’s decline…

Privatization of Tunisia’s Bankrupt Public-Sector Companies: A Necessary Evil

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The Tunisian government finds itself compelled to start implementing its privatization plans and permanently eradicate the daunting influence of the labor unions.  Momentum is building round the government’s intention to privatize public-sector companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy or simply limit its ownership to a small share and relieve itself of their burden. The debate is heating up while the UGTT, the biggest labor union in the country, still refuses to support the government’s privatization plans, stating unconvincing reasons related to the country’s economic structure and to the…

EBRD projects growth rate of 2.7% in 2018 and 3% in 2019 in Tunisia

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The growth rate in Tunisia is projected to be 2.7% in 2018 and 3% in 2019, according to the latest forecasts of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in its Regional Economic Prospects report released Wednesday. The EBRD pointed out an improvement in the growth rate in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region as projected to increase from 3.7% in 2017 to around 4.4 and 4.8% in 2018 and 2019, respectively, on stronger external demand, rising investment and improved competitiveness as well as recovery in tourism on the…

150 participants gathered for the 6th edition of the MedUni

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The 6th edition of the Mediterranean University on Youth and Global Citizenship – MedUni – started Tuesday in Tunis. Once again, it provides a space where different national and international organisations run training activities within a multilateral cooperation context facilitated and coordinated by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe in partnership with National Youth Observatory of Tunisia. This year, the MedUni encompasses eight activities, which will allow young people, youth-related institutions and youth decision makers to meet, debate and develop capacities to better cooperate in democratic processes and contribute to the…

Benghazi Rebuild conference opens with participats from 18 states

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The International Conference for the Reconstruction of Benghazi and its accompanying exhibition started on Saturday at Benghazi’s Tibesti Hotel. Organizers say representatives of 18 different states took part. The opening ceremony was attended by a number of members of the House of Representatives (HoR), the Mayor of Benghazi, and a number of officials of the eastern-based Interim Government, the former Governor of the eastern Central Bank of Libya, and a number of local and international company representatives, the eastern-based LANA state news agency reported. “The conference has seen the submission of more…

Reducing meat consumption to reduce CO2 emissions: a sustainable challenge

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Eating habits are responsible for carbon dioxide emissions and many countries could improve their carbon footprint by changing them. European countries are not all equal in terms of CO2 emissions, but an effort could be made. A study published by the nutrition store nu3 shows how Northern European countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway could do better to decrease their CO2 emissions by eating in a more sustainable way: they are all in the top twenty of countries who could replace animal products with non-animal ones. In their case,…