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Towards a sustainable and inclusive internationalisation for Guadeloupe: Production Transformation Policy Review | OECD
Summary: The OECD Production Transformation Policy Review for Guadeloupe emphasizes strengthening internationalisation, regional autonomy, and competitiveness to maximise EU and France Relance resources. Key points include: - Increase involvement of regional authorities in strategic planning; support private co-funding of transformative projects; foster game-changing initiatives with broad spillovers. - Shift policy design toward stronger synergies and coordination across loc
2026-05-25Fed up with being overlooked, France's Guadeloupe turns to the far right - RFI
Summary: - Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, has shown strong support for the far-right National Rally in European elections, signaling widespread discontent with cost of living, basic services, and immigration policies. - Voters complain of recurrent drought, neglected infrastructure, and water shortages, with 60–70% still facing regular cuts despite government promises to overhaul water networks. - This disillusionment correlates with very low turnout in parliamenta
2026-05-25OECS – Guadeloupe: International Ambition for Guadeloupean Youth
Summary tailored to your query: - OECS membership expands Guadeloupe’s foreign policy reach beyond Hexagonal France, embedding the territory in a Caribbean regional bloc focused on economic integration, governance, climate resilience, and youth opportunities. - Since joining as an Associate Member (March 14, 2019), Guadeloupe leverages regional cooperation to address local-to-regional challenges: employment, training, energy transition, and Sargassum management. - The Region
2026-05-25How the Caribbean became a front line in France's fight against the cocaine trade - RFI
Summary: France is expanding military and police presence in the Caribbean (Guadeloupe and Martinique) to curb escalating cocaine trafficking and related violence. Measures announced by Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez? (reported asRetailleau visiting Antilles) include 13 additional investigators for Ofast, a new local ballistics lab, two mobile gendarmerie squads, two marine units, radar monitoring of Dominica and the Saintes channels, drone surveillance of Guadeloupe’s coast
2026-05-25Assembly Considers Integration of French Caribbean with Caricom – MartiniqueTimes
Summary: - France–Caribbean Agreement is poised for final approval (France’s National Assembly and previously the Senate) to integrate French Caribbean territories, including Martinique and Guadeloupe, into CARICOM. - The agreement removes legislative barriers for accession, enabling each island to negotiate its terms of entry into CARICOM, with Martinique and Guadeloupe already positioned to benefit. - Proponents (e.g., Béatrice Bellay and Christian Baptiste) frame it as ess
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