Europe in the World

Europe’s Place in the World
in the 21st Century

In light of probable increasing threats to Europe during the 21st century, we need a more coherent and effective EU as an actor on the international stage. None of the 25 nation states of the EU (even the most powerful) can be truly effective or sometimes even relevant acting alone. Our publics (...)

Sunday 30 September 2007

The End of Unilateralist Illusion

The escalation of attacks by insurgent groups believed to be linked to al-Qaeda reached its climax on 12 April 2007, when a suicide bombing struck the Iraqi Parliament. The bomber penetrated the Parliament’s cafeteria where the lawmakers were gathering for lunch. This was in the heart of the (...)

Sunday 16 September 2007

Humanitarian Aid Today

In today’s conflicts there are more than not just two sides: a part from two armies fighting each other there are many organizations that try to alleviate the sufferings of the populations living in conflict zones. We interviewed a professional humanitarian aid worker to better understand this (...)

Thursday 6 September 2007

EU Energy Policy: A late awakening

The world-wide high demand of electrical power risks to explode in the following years, whereas it is not sure that the offer could be carried out. The increase of price, that is the supply rupture, threatens the independence of national electrical power and we can only imagine the economic and (...)

Wednesday 22 August 2007

The House of Change: high time for a new Romania

Friday, 2nd August 2007, ‘’The Biggest Exhibition about Romanian Communism, at the National History Museum’’: museums begin to react, society seems to awaken. Is this the beginning of a long trial of memorial and judgment, or are we just in the middle of a general confusion? The European Union (...)

Monday 13 August 2007

Vladimir Putin - friend or foe

Today everybody from the Atlantic to the Ural speaks about Putin. The Mass Media in Russia abounds in rapturous panegyrics to his strength, beauty and intellect. The Media in the rest of the world condemns him for his authoritarianism. Russian women go crazy about him and succumb to his (...)

Thursday 31 May 2007

The Motor of the Balkans

The first turn of the EU Presidency in 2008 is going to Slovenia, the first country of the newcomers entering the European Union in 2004 to be given such a role. Thus, demonstrating that the Adriatic state occupies a first class position, and, as Barroso stated in one of his official visits in (...)

Sunday 27 May 2007

How can Europe help Ukraine to preserve the achievements of the Orange revolution?

These days Ukraine is once again facing tensions after the pro-Western President Yushchenko decided to dissolve the Parliament and called new elections. The events of the last days are likely to produce a civil war or put an end to the Orange Revolution. Let us return to one of the principals (...)

Wednesday 11 April 2007

Bosnia and Herzegovina 6 Months After Elections: Far from Normality

On the 1st of October 2006 the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina voted for a new parliament, a new presidency, a new assembly in the Republika Srpska, a new parliament in the Bosniak - Croat Federation and new cantonal parliaments in the Federation. Half a year after the elections, the worst (...)

Thursday 5 April 2007

Belarus a year after

Last year thousands of demonstrators gathered in the streets of Minsk, protesting against rigged results of the Presidential elections. For many the events were expected to be the beginning of the end of Lukashenka’s more than 10 years dictatorial rule. Despite the almost non-existing election (...)

Wednesday 21 March 2007

Belarus: A Dictatorship Next Door

“A strong civil society is not forbidden at all. The president of a country that doesn’t possess nuclear weapons and that depends economically on other countries cannot be a dictator. […] Belarus lies in the middle of Europe, we share the same values but sometimes our interests differ from one (...)

Saturday 17 March 2007

Kazulin, a political prisoner in Belarus as many others…

Alaksandar Kazulin, the leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly) “Hramada”, in opposition to the ruling Alexander Lukashenka, has been kept in prison for more than nine months now. Why is that? Simply because presidential elections were held one year ago in Belarus - on March (...)

Thursday 15 March 2007
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