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JEF Free Belarus Action – Schweigen für mehr Demokratie

Vorgestern haben junge Menschen in mehr als 100 Städten auf der ganzen Welt Demokratie für Belarus gefordert. Tausende Statuen wurden geknebelt – symbolisch am Sprechen gehindert, um die Situation unserer europäischen Nachbarn zu verdeutlichen.

samedi 18 décembre 2010

JEF Free Belarus Action – as silent as a loud voice for democracy

Yesterday in over 100 cities all over the world young people are demanding democracy for Belarus. Thousands of statues are being gagged – symbolically prevented from speaking, to symbolise the situation of our European neighbours. Just 3 days prior to the presidential elections, inside Belarus (...)

vendredi 17 décembre 2010

To vote or not to vote – that’s the question…

…at least if you look at the disastrous low turnout predictions for the European Parliament elections. Lets look at the elections more bluntly and determine if to vote or not to vote by asking ourselves 3 metaphysical questions : Question 1 : Is there a European Parliament ? The EP has gained (...)

samedi 6 juin 2009

Humble Socialists will never make Europe democratic

Socialist leader Martin Schulz is not interested in power. Not for Europe’s Socialists nor for its voters. This very humble position might help against the picture of politicians as power maniacs, but it will hardly contribute to a more democratic EU. Schulz is against the notion of a Socialist (...)

vendredi 8 mai 2009

EU weakness legitimizes Lukashenka

Last week a positive spirited Solana visited Belarus and Lukaschenka, leaving complaints and demands on the side. Isolation has for sure never been a good recipe to cure an autocracy but I wonder if Solana’s uncritical handshaking with Europe’s last dictatorship is the right alternative ? In (...)

lundi 23 février 2009

PES campaign launch without flesh - where is their candidate ?

This Tuesday the Party of European Socialists (PES) launched their election manifesto. But as long as PES fails to nominate their candidate to the position as Commission president we have to ask our self how serious they are in profiling themselves as one political party and giving Europe’s (...)

vendredi 13 février 2009

Russia : a one-party state again ?!

The Duma elections are over – an excellent performance in state managed democracy with Putin as the big theatre director. The election that took place last Sunday, are criticized sharply by OSCE and the results confirm Russia as a renewed one-party state. In Sunday’s Parliamentary elections in (...)

mardi 4 décembre 2007

Mini-treaty means mini-progress :
We expect more from Europe !

Now both the Dutch, the Czech and the British governments are chickening out about the Constitution. The question is what they have to offer instead and how seriously this threatens the important institutional changes the EU so desperately needs. The suggestion to make a “mini-treaty” and at the (...)

mardi 24 avril 2007

Muzzled Europeans deserve more attention

In Minsk, a European city closer to my home in Stockholm then Brussels, civil society engagement is illegal, journalists work under threat and state critique can lead to long prison sentences. On the 19th of March, JEF, just as last year, leads the way in a massive Pan-European action demanding (...)

dimanche 18 mars 2007

Föderalismus : Vom Bedürfniss zum Rezept

Dass Föderalismus ein großartiges und auch ein notwendiges Rezept für Europa ist, wissen wir schon lange. Manchmal kommt es einem allerdings vor, als ob dieses Rezept einfach von oben zu uns gekommen sei, vielleicht vom „heiligem Kochbuch der staatliche Systeme“. Glücklicherweise gibt es aber (...)

samedi 24 février 2007

Renvoyez l’État-Nation au fin fond des livres d’Histoire !

L’État-Nation, ce pauvre vieux, s’en prend de tous les côtés. Après des décennies de mondialisation et d’intégration européenne, la couronne souveraine du vieux monarque ne brille plus des mêmes feux que par le passé. Et à l’intérieur même du château, il semble qu’un mouvement se fasse avec le soulèvement (...)

vendredi 12 janvier 2007

Expel the nation state to the history books !

The poor old nation state is being kicked at from above and below. After decades of globalization and European integration the old monarch’s sovereignty crown is not shining quite as brightly anymore. And within the castle it seems to be movement toward uprising with a majority of Scots now (...)

jeudi 14 décembre 2006

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