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  • pattosociale31 Gennaio 2018
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    China wants to build a high-speed railway linking Sweden and Norway. The project could cost almost €17.3 billion

    A delegation from the China Association for Promoting International Economic & Technical Cooperation visited Oslo to discuss a potential project that would see a high-speed railway link Stockholm with Oslo in under three hours, reported Swedish radio Severige.
    “We discussed how China can assist, possibly, with funding and expansion capacity and competence,” said Alf S. Johansen of the Bordercomittee of Värmland-Østfold.

    One component of the project calls for rebuilding and repairing existing railways, estimated around €5.1 billion. The second, more costly, alternative involves building an entirely new railway system valued at €17.1 billion.
    Beijing’s investments in the EU continue to climb, which increased by a shocking 76 percent in 2016, alone.
    “It’s in Norway and Sweden’s, as well as China’s, interests to build a profitable, safe, environmentally friendly and fast high-speed rail between Oslo and Stockholm. This will contribute to better cooperation in the Nordic region and faster development” said Huang Xin, the leader of the Chinese delegation in an interview with the Norwegian Dagsavisen daily.

    While Norway has been receptive to the Beijing proposal, Sweden appears to be lukewarm to the offer, with debates in the country focusing mainly on Beijing’s growing investments linked to port construction plans in Lysekil.
    The project could be profitable after only a few years, as the project’s main target would be commuters who usually fly between the two cities, said Johansen.

  • International News10 Gennaio 2018
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    HandsAway: Brussels wants to use bait women to catch harassers

    Nearly nine out of ten women in Brussels have already been confronted with some form of sexual harassment, but Brussels residents will soon be able to report such incidents via a special app.

    No less than 88 % of the women surveyed have already experienced a form of sexual harassment. One in three still experiences negative consequences every day. This is shown by a study by Ghent University at the request of the Brussels secretary of state for Equal Opportunities Bianca Debaets (CD & V). Half of the women surveyed were confronted with physical violence.
    This makes Brussels worse than in previous European figures. It showed that 30 % of women had to deal with street violence and 60 % were victims of intimidation.
    ‘There is too little respect for women’, Debaets told the Belgian newspaper De Tijd. ‘If women get sexually insulted insults on the streets, that is not a minor crime. I am horrified by that term. The research shows that women often still avoid certain neighbourhoods years later or adjust their behaviour because of some sexual verbal violence of the past. ‘
    Earlier Debaets launched the awareness campaign Meld Meld, which encouraged women in cases of street intimidation to file a complaint with the police. In March she will go one step further when HandsAway Brussels becomes available, an app similar to the successful French app HandsAway. Women and men who are harassed on the street or in public transport can indicate what and where something happened. This can be done via a simple click to keep the registration as low as possible.
    The app must go further than collecting numbers. Victims can share their experiences and ask bystanders to help. Those who witness an incident on the street can also report this via the app.

    In addition, Debaets also calls for more attention for this type of violence. ‘Why do not we use bait women to catch and punish perpetrators? It works in the Netherlands, why not in Brussels?’

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