Europe in the World

Beginning of the End of China’s One-Child Policy?

For the first time in 30 years, the authorities in Shanghai have started to urge the parents, who are themselves only children, to start planning their second child. This came as a result of increasing demographic imbalance which caused rising number of elderly people in the city and fears of (...)

Monday 10 August 2009

“Noisy” European absence in Moscow’s negotiations

On 7 June 2009, the summit between the US President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Russia took place in Novo Ogarevo. The two leaders-protagonists of the international political scene set the most acanthoid multidimensional issues of the current international system establishing (...)

Friday 7 August 2009

The War on Terror: A new strategy of crush the Taliban

In late May 2009, the Pakistani government launched a military operation against Taliban militants in the Swat valley in a bid to flush the Taliban out of Pakistani soil. In June, the Pakistani government launched another military operation in South Waziristan, another Taliban stronghold. In (...)

Tuesday 4 August 2009

Copenhagen Climate Change Summit: a series of unanswered questions to be addressed

To what extend are industrialized and rapidly developing countries such as China and India willing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions? Which are going to be the finance mechanisms for the poor countries to combat climate change and how are they going to be managed? These are only some of (...)

Thursday 30 July 2009

The eyes of the world on Iran: signs of a new ’coloured revolution’?

"Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary situation” : the analysis of a CIA report, not from 2009 but August 1978. Indeed, just six months before the Shah was ousted. As this demonstrates, the Iranian regime under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was not considered in danger of (...)

Sunday 26 July 2009

New Delhi Court takes promising step forward for LGBT rights in India

The High Court of New Delhi decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults in a July 2nd 2009 judgment on Section 377 of the Penal Code. This decision is the result of years of advocacy of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi- and transsexual) rights activists and comes at a time when India (...)

Friday 24 July 2009

The Uyghurs : The Periphery Moves

The abrupt departure of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, from the G8 Summit in Italy is a sign that the Chinese leadership considers the unrest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to be such that a collective decision of the ruling circle was necessary. The first decision was the classic (...)

Wednesday 22 July 2009

EU creates new divisions in the Balkans

Jacques Barrot and Olli Rehn will announce the Commission’s recommendation to lift the visa requirement for Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia (without Kosovo) by 1 January 2010 in Brussels next Tuesday. The initiative to create a Schengen White List for Western Balkan countries is the right step (...)

Saturday 11 July 2009

India’s road to success or failure?

The Congress Party won a landslide victory in the 15th general election since independence. Manmohan Singh is once again appointed prime minister of India. In his acceptance speech, Mr Singh said that among the main challenges he and his party are going to face for the next five years are the (...)

Friday 10 July 2009

Biden in the Balkans: United States Supports European Balkans

US Vice-President’s three-day tour of the Western Balkans is being interpreted as the confirmation of the increased interest of the new American administration in the region. Biden’s visit has a great political significance for the whole Balkans and it is expected to change relationships among (...)

Tuesday 7 July 2009

Cross-section view of the current Serbian political scene

It is a semi-serious folk joke that there are two things that every single person in Serbia knows how to do: one is to be a national selection football manager and the other one is how to run the Country. Mix that fact with complex political and social past of Serbia (Balkans for that matter) (...)

Friday 3 July 2009

Yes We Can! Even in the Muslim World!

‘We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning,’ Barack Obama declared to the Muslim crowd in the Cairo University. This is certainly a far cry from George Bush’s aggressive policy against the Muslim World which comprises 1.4 billion of the (...)

Tuesday 16 June 2009
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