As it was to be expected in an operation as large as Operation Moshtarak which is under way in southern Afghanistan, some deaths have already occurred among the coalition forces. And then, and while the first phase of the operation had been declared a success, the mission was marred by the deaths of 12 civilians in a NATO missile strike. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday the European Parliament rejected a deal that would have allowed the United States government to access European bank transfers. The European lawmakers voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. Read the rest of this entry »

After the terrorist attempt last December by the so-called ‘underwear-bomber’, in a flight that took off from Amsterdam and was bound for the US, the matter of more security for the airports began to be discussed in many countries, specially the introduction of body scanners. Read the rest of this entry »

On this coming Thursday, the European Union 27 leaders will gather in Brussels for a summit dedicated to revive the European economy. While the summit was called by the new European president, Herman Van Rompuy, not much action has yet been seen or heard from his office. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a question frequently asked by Europeans and to which is difficult to answer: How come in the United States you have a hard time electing a woman for president? Even Latin American countries with their strongly oriented male culture have managed to elect women as presidents, just think Nicaragua, Panama, Chile and Argentina. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1991 the ECC (the European Economic Community which became the EU in 1993 by the Treaty of Maastrich) and the US agreed to a system of regular summits to deal with a wide range of economic, environmental and travel related issues that could impact the Americans. Each time these summits were held in different cities in Europe or the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

The whole world knows that when Barack Obama was inaugurated president he arrived to the Oval Office to find severe problems left by his predecessor. But Obama has already been president for one year and things have not improved. Read the rest of this entry »