Europe, Europe, Europe
Can not be too welcome the popular ratification of the Lisbon Treaty Irish. Indeed, the vote boosts the dynamic integrationist Europe after the disastrous releases of the Constitution in Spring 2005. Certainly, Czechs, Poles and Britons remain opposed to the movement and the risk of explosion still exists. Time will tell if Europe is still dreaming these former members of Comecon, or if their entry into the Union has not been somewhat hasty. Already, the decline in popularity grew during the European elections this spring. Although the real motivations of voters were related to the internal political situation of each State, made up of European political landscape integration, low electoral mobilization does pose questions about the democratic reality of the European movement.
This brings us back to why the Irish turnaround. The economy of this little "Tiger" Europe has suffered the brunt of the recession begun a year ago. This economic background of the constitutional debate is eerily reminiscent Irish conditions for the failure of France in 2005. At that time also, the rejection of Europe was based on economic dogmas necessarily absent from the fundamental political text. Where French had found too much liberalism in 2005, the Irish had not quite found three years later. The economic crisis has shown them that without Europe - but she was actually part - Ireland invariably returned to the potato fields of Connemara.
Is this real? No, of course. With or without Europe, the economic choices still belong largely to the states and companies to host their territory. The current crisis has not challenged this inversion of common sense which means subjecting the public good with economic realities, political choices referring to simple arbitrage backyard. Naturally, the construction Europe, but especially in our contemporary societies can not be satisfied with this approach. Civic Responsibility policy is too often forgotten, both by themselves and their constituents. And Irish constitutional debates show us how Europe does not exist. The recipe used was the same in France for the vote of Maastricht where the text was accepted, where we were promised the seven plagues of Egypt.
is not achieved a European consciousness, based on a desire to live together on such criteria. Unfortunately!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Sick Family Member Quotes
Where is Europe?
The new cease-fire in Gaza encouraged to ask some questions, not on the merits of this new war unproductive, but on the responsibility of the international community, particularly on the European game? The Union is indeed the main contributor to the reconstruction of the Palestinian territories since 1993. We recall that French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated twice the Gaza port, the airport was left to others ... Each time, for each building, an Israeli offensive had come to wipe out European investments. It's not about that ticket to question the merits of each operation Israeli military more than we already have. It's just one point through actions to wars contemporary theorized that the Warden General in early 1990.
What did he say? Broadly, he felt that to subdue an enemy, it was methodically destroying its potential resistance from the executive to infrastructure. The air is clear primacy in this strategy and all armies have used, not only since the first Gulf War, but since the world began. The ancient Greeks, by ravaging the territory of the cities they attacked, had realized that we could win a war without fighting, or doing the least possible. Nonsense of the war of missiles, as memory retraining without the benefits of artillery, and its corollary of missile defense, here is a false problem. Each operation starts well in an air strike, right?
Not unlike other armies, the IDF uses these precepts in his battles against the Palestinians. In response to homemade rockets, how much Iranian technology itself - the payload and the guidance system are the only important things, and this game, Hamas still has work to do - there was no need to target police stations, schools and hospitals. To separate the population of its Islamist leaders, it was a plea. Again, we do not comment on operational results.
We recall only that the reconstruction is a major victory, as well as military operations having rushed. But in the Israeli perspective, since their failure in 1982, this part is not greater role. It lies much to the European Union. From infrastructure to training staff, Europe is involved in the process of building Palestinian national. For this reason, she feels legitimately weariness to the destruction inflicted on its investments Israelis.
But what does it do to protect them? Obviously, it is unrealistic to pretend that Europe should oppose fighting for a sovereign respect for its sovereignty. But simply, it must be remembered that the EU brings with it, through its diplomatic inconstancy, a responsibility, not in Israel's offensive, but in the radicalization of Hamas. After asking, if imposed democratic elections in Palestine, it has enabled the Palestinian people to play the card of Hamas. And what was the first attitude of the European Union? Suspend aid to the Palestinian administration, which proved unable to pay salaries of civil servants ... Thus, the Union was jeopardizing its investment, just not afraid of offending Israel and the United States. It is true that it was undergoing "global war against terrorism" - it is always ... And that this justified right.
The new cease-fire in Gaza encouraged to ask some questions, not on the merits of this new war unproductive, but on the responsibility of the international community, particularly on the European game? The Union is indeed the main contributor to the reconstruction of the Palestinian territories since 1993. We recall that French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated twice the Gaza port, the airport was left to others ... Each time, for each building, an Israeli offensive had come to wipe out European investments. It's not about that ticket to question the merits of each operation Israeli military more than we already have. It's just one point through actions to wars contemporary theorized that the Warden General in early 1990.
What did he say? Broadly, he felt that to subdue an enemy, it was methodically destroying its potential resistance from the executive to infrastructure. The air is clear primacy in this strategy and all armies have used, not only since the first Gulf War, but since the world began. The ancient Greeks, by ravaging the territory of the cities they attacked, had realized that we could win a war without fighting, or doing the least possible. Nonsense of the war of missiles, as memory retraining without the benefits of artillery, and its corollary of missile defense, here is a false problem. Each operation starts well in an air strike, right?
Not unlike other armies, the IDF uses these precepts in his battles against the Palestinians. In response to homemade rockets, how much Iranian technology itself - the payload and the guidance system are the only important things, and this game, Hamas still has work to do - there was no need to target police stations, schools and hospitals. To separate the population of its Islamist leaders, it was a plea. Again, we do not comment on operational results.
We recall only that the reconstruction is a major victory, as well as military operations having rushed. But in the Israeli perspective, since their failure in 1982, this part is not greater role. It lies much to the European Union. From infrastructure to training staff, Europe is involved in the process of building Palestinian national. For this reason, she feels legitimately weariness to the destruction inflicted on its investments Israelis.
But what does it do to protect them? Obviously, it is unrealistic to pretend that Europe should oppose fighting for a sovereign respect for its sovereignty. But simply, it must be remembered that the EU brings with it, through its diplomatic inconstancy, a responsibility, not in Israel's offensive, but in the radicalization of Hamas. After asking, if imposed democratic elections in Palestine, it has enabled the Palestinian people to play the card of Hamas. And what was the first attitude of the European Union? Suspend aid to the Palestinian administration, which proved unable to pay salaries of civil servants ... Thus, the Union was jeopardizing its investment, just not afraid of offending Israel and the United States. It is true that it was undergoing "global war against terrorism" - it is always ... And that this justified right.
Friday, September 19, 2008
How Can I Play Heartgold With .torret
The "barbarians" exist? The diagonal of rogue
By Hubert Vedrine
Le Figaro, 19/09/2008
Former foreign minister questioned the notion of "barbaric", often used to describe certain players in conflicts around the world and whose Tzvetan essayist Todorov believes it is alien to European culture.
Tzvetan Todorov would like the French, Europeans, Westerners continue to feed this famous "clash of civilizations" they claim to reject, release it, and see beyond. He puts all his talent is great, his conviction that feels every page, its philosophical culture that is never heavy, to exorcise this "fear" of "barbarians" (1) that has invaded the United States, and hence the entire West because of, or under the pretext of Sept. 11. It led to Manichaeism and simplistic mixtures of the "war against terror" Do Muslims see that through Islam, reducing Islam to Islamism and Islamist terrorism, to consider only the responses in strength to refrain from any analysis and policy response. Meanwhile, the American analyst Fareed Zakaria, in his book The Post-American World, was surprised to see the most powerful country in the world live in fear of everything and the others.
Todorov beautiful game with any player in good faith, to dismantle the historical use of the fantasy word "barbarians" - there is always someone barbaric - to explain that "collective identities" were certainly a heart, but they always was moving and never stopped to exchange and learn from each other, that the War of the Worlds, which appears inevitable, can be avoided, especially if it is known, regarding the relationship incandescent Islam / West "navigate the shoals."
For him, the idea of Europe - he mentions with accents inspired near Jorge Semprun, Bronislaw Geremek until his death, and Elie Barnavi until recently - contains the antidote to all these dichotomies dangerous. It is based on the acceptance of plurality, not as a historical legacy that handicapping is resigned to assume, but as a principle future policy and an asset.
We can be seduced by such an approach nevertheless requires both questions about America and Europe. This design is the exact opposite, absolute, ideology and politics of the Bush Administration for eight years, whose influence on Western public opinion, including French, has finally been enormous. Todorov wrote him, Countdown, "you can not erase centuries of history (...) in which the current" land of fear "(the West) have dominated the current" land of resentment "(the Arab -Muslims). "
In his eyes, "the prerequisite is that the Western elites continue to consider himself an incarnation of law, virtue and universal (...) and put himself above the law and judgments of others." But that is their consubstantial! "The right of military intervention, he insists, is likely to perceive the ideals defended by the West - liberty, equality, secularism, human rights - as a convenient camouflage of their will to power, and therefore, to discredit them. "Instead, he recommends," that the Muslim population countries (Arab) can turn his attention to the internal causes of its setbacks, we must remove the most conspicuous external causes - those that the West is responsible. " And cite Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan.
Although realistic Republicans and Democrats are trying to rethink U.S. foreign policy after the fiascos of the Bush Administration, will they go to such a challenge to the U.S. prior to the time when the emerging world challenges Western Rome? This would require at least one Baker-Hamilton for the whole region back to say how the realities and deal with all the "barbarians." As
European response, Todorov has the courage to admit: even thought as a strength, diversity is not enough. The idealism that is to project the situation of Europe on the rest of the world is "inadequate." Europe must become a "quiet power". It can not exclude in principle the use of armed force. Todorov is more realistic than those who dream of a Europe merely its "soft power" (his standards, his aide, its conditionalities, his speeches) and radiate through his example that democracy and its social model. It remains to convince the Europeans. Perhaps the summer of 2008 he will descillé the eyes of many in the real world, far more to establish an "international community"?
(1) Tzvetan Todorov, "Fear of Barbarians", Robert Laffont.
By Hubert Vedrine
Le Figaro, 19/09/2008
Former foreign minister questioned the notion of "barbaric", often used to describe certain players in conflicts around the world and whose Tzvetan essayist Todorov believes it is alien to European culture.
Tzvetan Todorov would like the French, Europeans, Westerners continue to feed this famous "clash of civilizations" they claim to reject, release it, and see beyond. He puts all his talent is great, his conviction that feels every page, its philosophical culture that is never heavy, to exorcise this "fear" of "barbarians" (1) that has invaded the United States, and hence the entire West because of, or under the pretext of Sept. 11. It led to Manichaeism and simplistic mixtures of the "war against terror" Do Muslims see that through Islam, reducing Islam to Islamism and Islamist terrorism, to consider only the responses in strength to refrain from any analysis and policy response. Meanwhile, the American analyst Fareed Zakaria, in his book The Post-American World, was surprised to see the most powerful country in the world live in fear of everything and the others.
Todorov beautiful game with any player in good faith, to dismantle the historical use of the fantasy word "barbarians" - there is always someone barbaric - to explain that "collective identities" were certainly a heart, but they always was moving and never stopped to exchange and learn from each other, that the War of the Worlds, which appears inevitable, can be avoided, especially if it is known, regarding the relationship incandescent Islam / West "navigate the shoals."
For him, the idea of Europe - he mentions with accents inspired near Jorge Semprun, Bronislaw Geremek until his death, and Elie Barnavi until recently - contains the antidote to all these dichotomies dangerous. It is based on the acceptance of plurality, not as a historical legacy that handicapping is resigned to assume, but as a principle future policy and an asset.
We can be seduced by such an approach nevertheless requires both questions about America and Europe. This design is the exact opposite, absolute, ideology and politics of the Bush Administration for eight years, whose influence on Western public opinion, including French, has finally been enormous. Todorov wrote him, Countdown, "you can not erase centuries of history (...) in which the current" land of fear "(the West) have dominated the current" land of resentment "(the Arab -Muslims). "
In his eyes, "the prerequisite is that the Western elites continue to consider himself an incarnation of law, virtue and universal (...) and put himself above the law and judgments of others." But that is their consubstantial! "The right of military intervention, he insists, is likely to perceive the ideals defended by the West - liberty, equality, secularism, human rights - as a convenient camouflage of their will to power, and therefore, to discredit them. "Instead, he recommends," that the Muslim population countries (Arab) can turn his attention to the internal causes of its setbacks, we must remove the most conspicuous external causes - those that the West is responsible. " And cite Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan.
Although realistic Republicans and Democrats are trying to rethink U.S. foreign policy after the fiascos of the Bush Administration, will they go to such a challenge to the U.S. prior to the time when the emerging world challenges Western Rome? This would require at least one Baker-Hamilton for the whole region back to say how the realities and deal with all the "barbarians." As
European response, Todorov has the courage to admit: even thought as a strength, diversity is not enough. The idealism that is to project the situation of Europe on the rest of the world is "inadequate." Europe must become a "quiet power". It can not exclude in principle the use of armed force. Todorov is more realistic than those who dream of a Europe merely its "soft power" (his standards, his aide, its conditionalities, his speeches) and radiate through his example that democracy and its social model. It remains to convince the Europeans. Perhaps the summer of 2008 he will descillé the eyes of many in the real world, far more to establish an "international community"?
(1) Tzvetan Todorov, "Fear of Barbarians", Robert Laffont.
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