member of JEF Belgium and freelance writer
There are financial crises, economic crises, but Belgium is experiencing what for many looks like a perpetual, political crisis, already since the last federal elections in 2007. That year, the Flemish Christian Democratic party (CD&V) won almost by a landslide in Flanders with a campaign (…)
samedi 26 juin 2010
La demande d’adhésion de la Serbie déposée le 22 novembre 2009 marque un nouveau pas dans l’élargissement de l’Union Européenne (UE). Un pas de géant pour certains, pas seulement pour les pays actuels de l’UE mais notamment pour les Balkans. Cependant la candidature du pays et sa probable (…)
mercredi 27 janvier 2010
With the Serbian application for EU membership submitted on 22 December 2009 a new step towards enlargement of the European Union was made. One could see this even as a giant step, not only for Europe but for the Balkan countries as well. However, several issues could arise with this rather (…)
lundi 11 janvier 2010
En janvier 2006 la fourniture de gaz vers l’Europe s’est arrêtée pour environ un jour, en raison d’un conflit commercial entre Gazprom de la Russie et Naftogaz de l’Ukraine. En même temps, les capacités de stockage disponibles ont limité les problèmes provoqués par la perturbation. Cependant, en (…)
samedi 9 janvier 2010
As the Copenhagen Climate Summit has drawn to its end without a real perspective on further cooperation concerning Climate Change, several weaknesses have been laid bare. Most amazing of all was the deafening silence of the European Union during the conference. Despite its new Lisbon Treaty, (…)
mercredi 6 janvier 2010
At the current energy consumption rate Europe’s future imports, and accordingly its import dependency, will rise. World demand for fossil fuels is rising and supply is likely to drop, due to ending reserves and a lack in new investments. Environmentally the current situation won’t last as well. (…)
dimanche 27 décembre 2009
From the start of the European integration process, energy has always been important. The European Coal and Steel Community (1952) and Euratom (1957) both demonstrate this. During the last years energy became a hot topic once again. The gas crises of January 2006 and 2009 revealed Europe’s (…)
vendredi 25 décembre 2009
In January 2006 gas supply to Europe halted for approximately one day, due to a commercial dispute between Russia’s Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz. At the time, available storage capacities alleviated the problems caused by the disruption. However, in January 2009 another gas dispute arose. Now (…)
jeudi 19 novembre 2009
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 later (…)
vendredi 4 septembre 2009
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 (…)
mardi 18 août 2009
"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 (…)
dimanche 26 juillet 2009
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