Europe in the World

Goldstone Report: The Impact of International Fact-Finding

“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace, but rather the preconditions on which trust and, ultimately, a durable peace can be built.” Shortly after a Special Session of the (...)

Monday 7 December 2009

The Rich have already eaten and the poor are unorganized

There is a certain irony in the fact that when the UN system with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the lead holds a major conference on food issues, political matters are never clearly discussed. This was true of the recent 16-18 November 2009 World Food Security Summit held at (...)

Friday 27 November 2009

Cross-section view of the current Serbian political scene

As presented in the previous part of the article, current political scene in Serbia is deeply corrupted and driven mainly by day-to-day interests of the few undisputed political parties. The main scope of the hypothetical solution that I am hereby presenting is thorough change in the very core (...)

Friday 13 November 2009

US slowing down COP15 negotiations

In the last round of international talks on climate change in Barcelona (2-6 November) before the Conference of Parties (COP) are to gather in Copenhagen to strike a global new climate change deal it became evident that a legally binding document is out of reach. The Barcelona Climate (...)

Saturday 7 November 2009

Iceland’s accession bid: quo vadis?

The Government of Iceland submitted its application for EU-Membership to the current Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU in a letter dated on 16 July. At the Council meeting on 27 July, EU Foreign Affairs Ministers acknowledged Iceland’s application for membership of the European Union (...)

Thursday 5 November 2009

China 60 years on: What’s in for the future?

Sixty years ago, the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed by its founding father and leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mao Zedong. During those last sixty years, China has gone through a lot. It experienced 27 years of Mao’s rule during which Mao Zedong tended to give more (...)

Friday 30 October 2009

The Problem with Iran

Iran could make an atomic bomb, according to UN reports, having sufficient information to be able to design one. However, the real worry, as General James Jones, Obama’s National Security Adviser said, is Iran’s intent. UN’s sanctions on Iran, since 2005, have served little as a deterrent to (...)

Monday 26 October 2009

Guinea: A Wave of Horror But No UN Action

A wave of horror spread among the assembled delegates at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva as news of the 28 September shootings of unarmed participants in a political meeting in Conakry was known. It was the last days of the Council session which was then in its final stage of (...)

Thursday 22 October 2009

Japan’s elections and its implications on the rest of the world

Japan LDP party practically managed to revive Japan’s economy more than 5 decades ago. Now the party lies in ruins as their policies which once had been beneficial to the countries’ economy has nothing to offer anymore. It seems that for the very first time in a long time, people in Japan have (...)

Sunday 18 October 2009

Europe’s rush to the East: The next frontier

In the morning of 8 August 2008 Russian military forces invaded South Ossetia after a provocation by the Georgian army against this small breakaway region, and settled the debate that was going on for years in European capitals on how far the borders of the European Union could go. A year (...)

Friday 4 September 2009

The Honduras Coup; and why it was condemned by many

On 28 June, 2009, in Honduras there was to be a non binding referendum held in order to conduct changes in the Constitution which would amend the provision stating that a president must only be in office for one four year term, thus giving the then President, Manuel Zelaya, the chance to be re (...)

Tuesday 25 August 2009

Iceland’s accession bid and EU enlargement policy: quo vadis?

And the 28th member state of the European Union will be …? Croatia seemed to be the front runner for a long while, but an economic crisis and the ensuing financial collapse of Iceland could put a stop to Croatia’s position as the next country to accede to the European Union. Just as (...)

Tuesday 18 August 2009
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