Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 30, 2009
Ireland votes on the Lisbon Treaty again
Europeans are waiting with trepidation for the results of the Dublin vote on October 2 when the country will go to the polls for a repeat of the failed 2008 referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. After a failed attempt in 2005, when France and the Netherlands rejected the European Constitution in a referendum, the Lisbon Treaty was created to replace it and was ratified by all member states except Ireland where Irish voters rejected it last year. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 28, 2009
Angela Merkel remains chancellor
If only elections were in the US like in Germany: relatively short, fast with the results and then…back to work. Well Germany is Germany and last night its citizens already knew the result of the elections: Chancellor Angela Merkel had won. So in part it was more of the same as ‘Angie” as the Germans call her will remain their chancellor. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 28, 2009
President Obama finds time for Copenhagen…
This coming Friday, after a two year global campaign with four world cities on the run, one of the closest bids races in Olympic history will take place in a vote of the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen. The cities contending to become host to the games are Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Chicago and Tokyo. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 26, 2009
Iran’s nuclear program
Nobody is sure yet of how much was accomplished at the G20 meeting mostly because the most talked about event, one that was probably orchestrated behind the scenes but not expected to be presented, was the dramatic disclosure Friday made by Obama, flanked by Brown and Sarkozy, the leaders of Britain and France, of the existence of a covert Iranian nuclear enrichment site. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 25, 2009
From G8 to G20
The White House released today an statement announcing that the G20 leaders -the group of 19 countries and the European Union- had agreed that the body should permanently replace the G-8 as the world’s main economic forum. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 24, 2009
The prisoners of Bagram
While the war in Afghanistan and how to solve it is all over the media and everybody is offering different points of view to avoid another Vietnam quagmire, very few, from the American government on, talk or even think about the infamous Bagram military prison in the middle of the Afghan country. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 24, 2009
Words without substance
The United Nations conference about combating climate changes has just finished. Now 70 days before the Copenhagen global summit about the same topic there is little to cheer. The world leaders arrived and talked, promises and admonitions were made but nothing concrete. Read the rest of this entry »
