L'actualité du capital social, de la vie en société et des options de société.
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| Civil society - Climate - Social capital | ||
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Civil society unleashes its activists into battle
The Copenhagen Climate Conference, how many participants? The organizers of the event, the UN and Danish authorities alike, had no idea late Sunday afternoon, a few hours before the inauguration ceremony. Their respective information services were happy to repeat that the complex where the meeting is to be held from December 7 to 18, the Bella Center, can hold 15,000 people at most but that the ...Read More >>
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| Civil society - Taxes | ||
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The Flat Tax, spearhead of the necessary tax reform?
As opposed to the progressive tax, the "flat tax" is proportional, that is to say it applies the same tax rate to all taxable income. It thus puts an end to all discrimination by income, grouping or composition of the tax household. The flat tax is a daily subject of discussion in the United States, in particular to simplify the current old tax code; it has already come into force in countries such as Russia, Estonia and Slovakia. The debate opposes, on the one hand, th...Read More >>
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Hello week: basic gestures
If you spontaneously say "hello" to a stranger on the street between May 5 and 9, all you risk is winning 25 or 25,000 euros. Members of “Message sans nom”, a group which campaigns for a more friendly and caring society, will indeed walk the streets in search of these spontaneous “hellos” during “Hello Week”. “Message without a Name” is based on the principle that small changes are enough to make socie...Read More >>
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| Belgium - Civil society - Social capital | ||
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Microsociology of daily life
On November 20, 2005, a couple of African origin approached a lady while she was at the Bancontact self-banking machine at the ING bank in La Hulpe, asking her to explain how the machines worked. The victim turns around to discuss and one of the two perpetrators manages to steal his bank card from the device. The victim then gives up her place t...Read More >>
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NGO: the wheat and the chaff
The European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, today suggested the creation, by the NGOs themselves, of a “high authority” responsible for setting and monitoring their intervention rules in order to avoid any deviation as with Zoé's Ark in Chad. “NGOs would have every interest in building a sort of deontological order, of high authority, which would establish (…) the rules of intervention...Read More >>
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To detox from tobacco or from the State?
Smoking at work, in high schools, shopping centers or even hospitals is now prohibited in France, but “nicotine addicts” can still “toast one” at the local café, at least for a few months. The ban initially concerns businesses, educational establishments, administrations, shops, shopping centers, health establishments, train stations, airports, sports halls, performance halls, etc., and all means of public transport. In eleven months...Read More >>
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Blair rediscovers civic engagement
The Government is to recruit 100 people to help ministers to shape policies on the public services for the next decade, ministers will announce today. The people, to be selected by market-research organizations as a cross-section representative of the population, will be asked to put themselves in the shoes of the Government's decision makers and advise on thr...Read More >>
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