Russia and China… friends or foes?
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From the Chinese perspective: 1. Internal circumstances of China’s foreign policy • Traditional Chinese vision of world order (Sinocentrism and Confucianism) • The concept and practice of “three circles” • Reasons for the collapse...
The Closer
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ROUND UP Markets were spooked by fresh Eurozone fears today, as the ECB failed to commit to any large-scale sovereign bond purchases. The S&P 500 fell 0.74 per cent. (Bloomberg)....
LA to San Francisco and the Vandenberg airbase
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It was time for our last rail voyage today: the Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Oakland, just outside San Francisco. For inexplicable reasons, the train became increasingly delayed, so that we arrived in San Francisco only at midnight. But the tr...
Comment on Beja Airport – The Ghost Airport of Alentejo by JL
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Indeed ANA and TAP will be privatised later this year - this was agreed last year. ANA tried negotiating with Ryanair, Easyjet and other low-cost since before the airport opened. As far as I'm aware Ryanair showed interest early last year but th...
Comment on Beja Airport – The Ghost Airport of Alentejo by Tom Carney
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Thanks for all the comments and contributions posted on the delay and mismanagement of Beja airport. I think it is important that we create discussion and maybe ANA airport operators will wake up and listen to all the criticism online?
As the scales tip in Labour's favour, this is a pivotal moment for Ed Miliband | Polly Toynbee
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Unlike David Cameron, the Labour leader knows what he wants. And he knows radical steps are necessary to achieve itPresident Hollande this week launched the first tranche of France's financial transaction tax. Ed Miliband has just been greeted at the...
On the 32nd anniversary of the Bologna bombing, the pain for victims' families lives on
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The date is 2nd August 1980. An explosion. A deafening sound. A clock, that stops showing twenty five past ten on a hot Italian morning. A time that hasn't changed in all these years. A city, Bologna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, that can't...
Compiled: how do our six MEPs feel about a potential In/Out referendum on the UK's EU membership?
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As the calls increase among the UKIP and Conservative Party ranks for a straight In/Out referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union, the Gibraltar Chronicle have done us all a service in asking all of our regions’ MEPs what their opin...
In the mean time, some tension between pro-Erdoğan and pro-Gül factions emerge…
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In the end, Gül shows his fury against his AKP mates from Hurriyet Daily News It was in Ruşen Çakır’s column: The topic is whether or not President Abdullah Gül will participate. Gül, Erdoğan engage in proxy presidential row from Hurr...
Syria: It is easy to send weapons, but it is very difficult to remove them
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There is no ideal solution to the situation in Syria. According to Reuters Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels. Questions: 1. Though we have only some info from the open sources I think we can conclude that it is happening. What k...
Syria: It is easy to send weapons, but it is very difficult to remove them
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There is no ideal solution to the situation in Syria. According to Reuters Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels. Questions: 1. Though we have only some info from the open sources I think we can conclude that it is happening. What k...
Gold Breaks Out As Bonds And Stocks Trade Lower From Their Recent Highs On The Exhaustion Of The World Central Banks’ Monetary Authority
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Financial Market Report for Tuesday July 31, 2012 Junk Bonds, JNK, Emerging Market Bonds, EMB, and US Short to Medium Term Corporate Bonds, LQD, rise to new highs, causing Bonds, BND, to trade slightly higher, but below their recent highs, as stocks,...
Our Sophisticated European Betters
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They have such a healthy and open attitude toward life, especially where sex with sheep is involved.A farm hand is reported to have received a shock when he wandered past the field shortly after 3pm on Monday afternoon and witness the elderly man in...
Looks like a media blackout on the 10-day operation in Şemdinli, Hakkari
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We hear that there has been intensive fighting between Turkish Army and PKK forces in Şemdinli, Hakkari. After 10 days, we don’t know much about it. Berrin Karakaş of Radikal points out that. Somethings never change… Related posts:...
August is here. It's time for French politicians to retreat – with a good book | Christine Ockrent
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Just as French ministers believe they must write a book to be taken seriously, they think carefully about their summer readingIn France, from now on, don't try to reach anyone at the office: in August, "vive les vacances"! Everybody is leaving town,...
ECB policy: Analysis of Mario Draghi's speech
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The August 2 ECB governing council meeting is now over. Market expectations were kept high in anticipation of an intervention of the ECB in the secondary markets, or perhaps of some other unconventional and awe-inspiring monetary policy to decisively...
ECB policy: Analysis of Mario Draghi's speech
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The August 2 European Central Bank governing council meeting is now over. Market expectations were kept high in anticipation of an intervention of the ECB in the secondary markets, or perhaps of some other unconventional and awe-inspiring monetary po...
Comment on Beja Airport – The Ghost Airport of Alentejo by Tom Carney
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So ANA airport operators will be privatised later this year, that is the best news I have heard yet. I do know the history of the airport as a military airport for German military aircraft etc. I am sorry but I disagree with many of your comments, ev...
Was Draghi really a disaster?
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Convertibility, seniority… “modalities”.Was it a disaster or not? Anyway here’s the goods:The Governing Council extensively discussed the policy options...
Bulgarian and Romanian students barred from working in the UK
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Today, The Guardian carries the news of the unusual discrimation against Bulgarian and Romanian students who are prevented from easily working in the UK during their studies. Click here. This situation arises from a transitional arrangement put in p...
'Finger pointing' prompts Annan to quit Syria role
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Kofi Annan has announced he is to quit his role as the joint United Nations and Arab League envoy to Syria at the end of August...
Czech Officials at odds Over Impact of Tax Increases
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The Czech government's efforts to increase tax revenues via sales tax increases this year and next are now pitting the finance ministry against the central bank.
There be Draghis
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Given last week’s declaration that Draghi would do “whatever it takes” to restore the transmission mechanism and Europe with it… what could possibly have...
EFD Rights Watch: “A Single Person Arrested in Mob Attack Against Alevi-Kurdish Family, “William Burroughs’ Turkish publishers’ obscenity trial postponed and more..
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A Single Person Arrested in Mob Attack Against Alevi-Kurdish Family from Bianet :: English Officials arrested the traditional Ramadan drummer as part of their investigation into the attack against an Alevi-Kurdish family in the eastern province of Ma...
Global: BRICS vs. NATO - Battlefield of Ideas on Interventions
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China’s and Russia’s recent decision to veto the United Nations Security Council resolution against Syria -has reignited the debate over the relationship between 'new' powers Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the BRICS - with 'old'...
Global: BRICS vs. NATO - Battlefield of Ideas on Interventions
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China’s and Russia’s recent decision to veto the United Nations Security Council resolution against Syria -has reignited the debate over the relationship between 'new' powers Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the BRICS - with 'old'...
Hypercraft Economy: bottoms-up for innovation!
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Number of views :502(I am very pleased to introduce the first of this month’s crowd-sourced blog posts from my team of young advisers- I will try to put up two a week. NK) By Keimpe de Heer Director Creative Learning Lab, Waag Society (Institut...
The View from Pythagoras Square (2)
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Johan De Rycker Thursday, 02 August 2012 Postcards from Greece If last year it was Kappa Kappa Epsilon (The Greek Communist Party) that shouted at the fourth palm tree, this year, exactly one year ago, it is...
Seven Days in Europe
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It’s been a tumultuous week in Romania with a vote called on whether to oust their president, Traian Basescu, over claims from government opposition that he had violated the constitution by continually overstepping his authority and had used the se...
Maybe He Knows Something We Don't: Kofi Annan to Step Down as Syria Mediator
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Unexpectedly, announces Le Monde, Kofi Annan will not renew his mandate as Syria mediator for the United Nations and the Arab League, and will accordingly step down on August 31. The UN is looking for someone to replace the former secretary general,...
David Cameron meets dictator Putin at Downing Street 10
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David Cameron has met with Vladmir Putin at Downing Street 10. According to Sky News there was - as expected - no progress with regard to Putin´s unwillingness to see fellow dictator Bashar al-Assad dethroned.Also according to Sky News, Cameron...
Obama-Erdoğan talk subject to semiological analyses while Turkey’s Syria policy increasingly shaped by “Kurdish Phobia”…
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Obama here talks to PM Erdoğan about the crisis in Syria. Turks try to understand what this pose means. A roundup: IHT Rendezvous: Inside Turkey, Concern Over ‘Kurdish Phobia’ Around Syria from Yahoo news Fears of a takeover of Sy...
Pussy Riot 'show trial' is just another Russian state misdeed
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A decision by the Russian authorities to put three members of the music-art collective Pussy Riot on trial over an anti-Vladimir Putin protest stunt will be sending shockwaves of concern right across European capitals - says John Dalhuisen...
