Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 8, 2010
Buying and selling body scanners…
We began the year talking about body scanners. Terrorism was in our minds but the scanners,in many of the gatherings, were far more fun to talk about. Then we began thinking and realized that, if the US was able to influence governments around the world to buy and install them, most of us would have to go through one of those machines and the fun in many cases stopped. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 21, 2009
Saving our planet or politics?
Having contributed with China to destroy any possibility of reaching a positive deal in Copenhagen that could help our planet, President Obama went back to the US after calling the weak and not binding accord produced “a meaningful breakthrough.” Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation, said, “I think we can call Copenhagen a success.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 14, 2009
Will our planet be helped?
Four more days to the end of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the tensions must be growing. A lot has been written and talked about this conference and still we don’t know for sure if we are going to get a Treaty worth of its name. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 20, 2009
EU chose a President and a Foreign Minister
Well, we all were surprised when yesterday, instead of the long night we were expecting before knowing who would get to be president and foreign minister of the EU, the decisions happened very quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 19, 2009
Who will be Europe first president?
With any luck Europeans will wake up tomorrow morning to the news that finally they have a permanent president of the European Council and a foreign minister. No that many of them will have been worrying too much about it. After all the average citizen is not voting to choose them. It is mostly done by the leaders of the 27 countries who form the EU: 26 men and one woman. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 5, 2009
Who will be President of the EU?
After the Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified by the Czech Republic, the last of the 27 European countries to do it, the EU got in a celebrating mode. But now comes the hard part, the implementation of the treaty which is expected to become effective December 1. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
October 4, 2009
The ‘Yes’ vote of Ireland
As Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission said: “Thank you Ireland.” Like him, many people are happy in the EU about the ‘Yes’ vote for the Lisbon Treaty of the Irish. Now Europe which in the past five years has gone from 15 members to 27 has a chance to forge ahead by getting its first full-time president and strengthen the role of the European Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »
