One of the agreements taken at the NATO summit in Lisbon was that after the coalition would start turning the security control to the Afghans this spring, the transition would be completed by the year 2014. Even if the NATO leaders approved this, Western experts have indicated that the majority of Afghanistan’s police are untrained and do not know the law. Read the rest of this entry »

British Prime Minister David Cameron, in power since last May, arrives Tuesday to the US for his first official visit. In the UK there is a lot of expectation about the treatment he will receive by the Obama administration. The British have not forgotten the shoddy treatment the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown got last year during his White House visit. Read the rest of this entry »

Plans made for Afghanistan by the Obama administration are not going totally according to the goals that were made. Maybe because in some cases they appeared to be more wishes that real plans for something that could succeed. In any case, the so much talked about ’surge’ has had mixed results. Read the rest of this entry »

On his first trip abroad since becoming UK prime minister, David Cameron visited France and Germany. In Paris, his first stop, Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed him saying that he was happy to work hand in hand with him in Europe. After their meeting, he told reporters he was honored that France was chosen as the prime minister first destination. Read the rest of this entry »

For several hours polling stations in the UK have been opened to voters. In an election eagerly watched in many European capitals, we are all waiting for the results which will begin to be known at 11pm local time or midnight in the continent. In one of the most exciting of the general elections in years and with an outcome almost impossible to call, there is nothing to do but wait and see if the rise of the Liberal Democrats results in a hung Parliament for the first time since 1974. Read the rest of this entry »

This past Monday while the former UK prime minister Tony Blair was visiting the European Parliament for a hearing on the Israeli-Palestinians conflict, he had an unexpected surprise. 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 »