Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 12:10
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BenoitFabre
in EU in the world (807 views and 1 comments)
Nous sommes embourbés dans quelques pays du Tiers-monde : Afghanistan, Irak, Kosovo, où nous déployons le maximum de nos capacités déportables sans succès.
Imaginez un instant que la dictature chinoise paranoiaque, qui n'est pas en voie de démocratisation par l'économie, mais ressemble plutot à un virus mutant, aie une poussée de fièvre militariste, contre Taiwan tout d'abord, puis contre le Vietnam, la Corée et le Japon, sans parler de ses rivalités avec l'Inde. Que serions nous en mesure de faire ?
Je rappelle que la Chine nous tient en nous jouant les uns contre les autres dans la compétition économique, qu'elle a acheté les meilleurs sous-marins soviétiques, qu'elle peut faire exploser en vol nos satellites espions, qu'elle a 3 millions d'hommes sous les drapeaux complètement fanatisés, que sa population est nationaliste car ignorante des enjeux internationaux, donc prête à une longue et dure guerre. Et nous ?
Pour moi, la nouvelle doctrine anti-dictature devrait englober une vaste alliance OTAN_bis:USA+Europe_PESD+Russie, alliée à l'Inde, au Japon et à la Corée du Sud. Il y a urgence à ne pas s'endormir sur nos lauriers, et à décripter le véritable langage de rapport de force de la dictature chinoise.
read morePublished Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 09:57
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Editor
in EU in the world (848 views and 0 comments)
Published Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 10:52
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Editor
in EU in the world (874 views and 2 comments)
Social democratic
European foundations are working hard to contribute to a PES
manifesto based on progressive values. The first meeting of the
European Network of Social-Democratic Foundations (ENSoF) took
place on 29 March 2008 in the beautiful city of Sofia, under the
coordinating wing of the Institute for
Social Integration of Bulgaria, to debate issues related to the
manifesto theme ‘EU in the world’.Published Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 04:16
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frederic.vareillas 
in EU in the world (887 views and 10 comments)
Hi,
Dmitri Medvedev has just been chosen by 70 % of the Russian voters to become next President of Russian federation (with Putin as Prime Minister).
1/ This election has been only PARTLY democratic but a vast majority of the people in Russia are supportive of Putin's policies and are behind Medvedev (more than 60% of th total Russian population. So, Medvedev IS representative of the russians as much as Bush is representative of the americans.
2/ Russia has 10000 nuclear warheads targeting western Europe because of the American project of an anti missile "shield" (!) in Poland and Chzec Republic.
3/ America is a debtor nation , diving into a great depression, with no cash or oil left,
whereas Russia is on the rise : A new middle class, Oil, Gas, Coal, Gold, Diamonds, A new banking, trading, commercial and economic booming system.
4/ (and most important) : Look at your geographical maps : Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg, Moscow and most of the big Russian cities ARE in EUROPE.
5/ A bit of history : The forefathers of the white Russians where the "Varegs", Vikings coming to the region of Moscow around the tenth century A.D.
Russians Are europeans, and live mostly on the European continent.
That is to say : Most of the modern european Russians have SWEDISH ancestors : Sweden happens to be a member of the U.E. and is getting ready to join the € zone and the Schengen agreement.
6/ USA are...
read morePublished Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 22:54
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carl0s
in European democracy & diversity (1109 views and 3 comments)
I've heard it said that Russia could now be described as a "managed democracy." Control of the media and state apparatus is said to have tilted the electorate in a way that democratic debate exists within a pre-defined criteria.
President Putin, who appears to be popular anyway, can point out that many Western democracies also function in a similar way. The parameters in which they operate are often determined by access to money and media, and these often implicitly or explicitly contain an ideology. An example of this could be the "Cola" Presidents, whereby different soft drinks companies back presidential candidates in the US. Of course, this is generally to achieve the opening of new markets overseas for their companies. So the implicit ideology here is free trade, to the point of bargaining the right to sell fizzy drinks to poor countries.
In such an environment, should the EU attempt to curtail the concentration of political power in corporate hands and act to regulate all corporate lobbying of government within its jurisdiction? Should it be passing laws to ensure a plurality of media, and preventing singularly powerful figures from owning large chunks of various media outlets?
The EU can only set an example to the world, as perfect democracy is hard to find. But if we are serious that the EU should be the benchmark for democratic standards, then the way our electorates are influenced and cajoled should be examined. The end...
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