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Il y a comme une injustice à l'étonnant manque de reconnaissance dont est victime aujourd'hui encore le Congrès pour la liberté de la culture. Pourtant, pendant presque 30 ans, il a bâti et animé dans plus de 35 pays à travers le monde un impressionnant réseau d'actions et d'entraide au service de la liberté de penser, de s'exprimer et du respect de la diversité des opinions. Roselyne Chenu entra au secrétariat international du Congrès en 1964. Collaboratrice de Pierre Emmanuel, elle y travailla sans relâche pour le programme européen : attribution de bourses de voyage et d'étude, organisation de colloques internationaux, suivi des activités des correspondants et comités locaux, envois de livres et de revues, gestion d'un fonds d'aide pour des écrivains et artistes contraints à l'exil. Son parcours est l'occasion d'emmener le lecteur à la rencontre de quelques-uns des plus importants intellectuels de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle qui, en Europe et ailleurs dans le monde, souffraient du besoin de s'informer, d'échanger, de se parler, de se lire, ce qui fut rendu possible par l'action du Congrès. Puisant dans ses souvenirs, ses journaux, ses archives personnelles et celles du Congrès, Roselyne Chenu, seule survivante du secrétariat international, nous livre ici un témoignage sur cette formidable aventure culturelle. --

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In December 2020, the Multiannual Financial Framework regulation was adopted after over 2 years of legislative procedures between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. Covering the period of 2021-2027, the new MFF defines the financial commitments of the EU in different policy areas, including external relations and development cooperation. Since the first MFF in the 1980s, budget allocation greatly evolved, particularly with a shift from older sectors like agriculture and cohesion to newer priorities, such as research or climate change. Climate mainstreaming started timidly in the 2007-2013 MFF and was greatly enhanced since, with the introduction of climate spending targets and methodology for tracking and reporting. As such, the 2021-2027 MFF has now a climate spending target of 30% of the overall budget. It however remains a non legally binding objective. Nevertheless, climate spending targets of the 2021-2027 MFF appear to be more ambitious compared to the previous budget and 14 programmes now have expected contributions included in their basic act, compared to 5 previously. EU development cooperation has considerably evolved as well and even more so with the NDICI – Global Europe, the renewed financing tool for EU cooperation. It marks a radical change in the EU development policy and spending. It put more emphasis on bilateral cooperation and geographic programmes, and it puts the EU priorities at its core. The green transition appears to be one of the main priorities of cooperation with third countries. One of the main changes in the budget is the merger of ten previously external financial instruments and programmes into the NDICI. Like with the rest of the budget, the NDICI mainstream climate as well. The programme has a climate spending objective of 30%. The ability for the EU to reach its climate spending objective for the 2021-2027 MFF is however put into question by the ECA, as it concluded in a special report that the 20% objective of the previous MFF was not reached, despite the claim of the Commission. Issues in climate spending tracking and reporting has been identified as the cause of this overestimation. To answer these limitations, the Commission improved its methodology for a more efficient and coherent climate mainstreaming within the EU budget.