Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 26, 2010
Lybia’s holy war against Switzerland
Preoccupied by the Afghan war, health care, the bizarre killing in Dubai and so much more, the situation between Switzerland and Lybia almost escaped us. And yet the tense relation between the two nations has been going on for a while. It all began apparently in 2008 when Gaddafi’s son, Hannibal, was arrested in Geneva accused of having abused his domestic servants. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 20, 2010
Withdrawal of US Nuclear Arms from Europe
According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, five NATO countries, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway and the Netherlands, are planning to ask for the US to withdraw the nuclear arms from Europe. In a joint statement, four former Belgian government ministers said that NATO’s nuclear arms no longer serve a military purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 20, 2010
Dutch government: a victim of the Afghan war
While many citizens in different countries disagree with the military mission in Afghanistan for their soldiers, governments have been more reluctant to let know their thoughts about it. On Saturday we learned about one European government which has become a victim of the Afghan war: the Dutch. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 12, 2010
EU fights for civil liberties
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 »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 12, 2010
Body scanners in the EU?
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 »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 9, 2010
Saving the Euro
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 »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 4, 2010
Obama will not attend the planned EU/US summit
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 »
