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EU's future needs popular consensus
AFTER weeks of back-room lobbying and three days of tortuous negotiations at their summit in Brussels, European leaders have finally come up with nominees for the top posts in the EU. Two key jobs, the head of the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) are slated for German and French nationals.Ursula von der Leyen, currently Chancellor Angela Merkel’s defense minister has been put forward to replace Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker as European president, while Christine Lagarde, a former French finance minister and currently head of the IMF, is to take over the ECB from the Italian Mario Draghi.Belgium’s premier Charles Michel has been selected to succeed Poland’s Donald Tusk as president of the European Council and Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell has been...
July 04, 2019

EU's future needs popular consensus

The sack of Hong Kong’s parliament
THE storming of Hong Kong’s legislature by a mob of so-called pro-democracy activists was an outrage. It has served to seriously undermine the legitimacy of the massive protests at plans to abandon a key provision of the treaty Beijing signed with London when the British handed back this vibrant commercial and financial hub.The “one country two systems” meant that for 50 years after the 1997 handover, the people of Hong Kong would enjoy freedoms not enjoyed elsewhere in China. One particular provision was that people who lived in the port city could not be extradited to the mainland. It was the proposal to the legislature by the pro-Beijing Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, that this part of the deal with London be scrapped, that reignited protests which may have seen as many as two...
July 03, 2019

The sack of Hong Kong’s parliament

Crossing the line
AS Donald Trump never failed to make clear when he was still just a successful property mogul, his secret lay in always being prepared to walk away from a deal that was not right. His detractors insisted this was not the way that international politics could be conducted. Yet the new president’s approach has demonstrated merits. Most significantly he tore up the Obama nuclear deal with Iran, the pathetic legacy of a weak and failing president.His “No More Mister Nice Guy” approach has naturally outraged the ayatollahs in Tehran and shocked America’s European allies. But the clear proof that the Obama Geneva deal was not worth the paper on which it was written has been demonstrated by Iran’s readiness to admit publicly that it has upped production of enriched uranium, an essential...
July 02, 2019

Crossing the line

Trump and Xi squaring up at the G20
WHEN the G20 representatives of the world’s most advanced states sit down together in the Japanese city of Osaka on Saturday, they will be aware that the most significant business is going to take place outside their conference room. The scheduled meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will very probably start with a smiling photo call but, once the two leaders are alone, get down to some hard talking about the Sino-US trade war.The latest negotiations between the two biggest world economies broke down with both sides accusing the other of bad faith. Now Trump is threatening to add to the current tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports which Xi has warned will trigger further retaliatory tariff hikes from Beijing. It is probable that the best...
June 27, 2019

Trump and Xi squaring up at the G20

Should a new Cold War be welcomed?
NATO is giving Russia a final opportunity to end what it claims is Moscow’s long-standing flouting of the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The 1987 pact between the then Soviet Union and the United States and its allies banned missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. Moscow’s 9M729 rocket system is alleged to be designed to carry nuclear warheads and reach anywhere in Europe.Vladimir Putin is unlikely to back down on the missile program which has been in development for some years. Therefore, given President Donald Trump’s no-nonsense approach to international politics, he is almost certain to tear up the INF this summer.Will the world thus become a more dangerous place? The existence of any nuclear weaponry, particularly in the unpredictable...
June 27, 2019

Should a new Cold War be welcomed?

The interconnected world is not all good
The evermore interconnected world about which technology journalists like to enthuse has always had its dark side. This is, of course, that being connected to the Internet does not only provide users with the enthralling opportunity to find out whatever they want to know; it also gives malign operators the chance to find everything they want to know about you. Anyone who has any sort of computer that links to the Internet is effectively leaving the front door of their homes wide open. Strangers with the appropriate software tools can enter their lives and see who their friends are, what they like to eat, where they have been, where they are planning to go and how much money they have. It is not too much to argue that there is no longer any true privacy. Users of social media have...
June 26, 2019

The interconnected world is not all good

Erdogan suffers humiliating blow
AFTER 16 uninterrupted years in power, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was unused to losing. Now he has received a major political blow which could mark the beginning of the end of his increasingly imperious and uncompromising rule. On paper Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development (AKP) party are not due to face the electorate for the next four years. But 2023 must now seem a long way off to Erdogan in the one-thousand room presidential palace he built for himself in the capital Ankara.On Sunday the voters of Istanbul went to the polls for a second time in three months following the triumph of the opposition Republican Peoples (CHP) party in the city’s mayoral election at the end of March. The margin of victory for the CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu was a wafer-thin 13,000. At...
June 25, 2019

Erdogan suffers humiliating blow

Vaccination programs should be trusted
VACCINES have saved the lives of billions by giving protection against infections that at worst can kill, such as the effect of measles during pregnancy, or at the very least can seriously damage future quality of life. Since the 18th century British scientists turned a Turkish discovery into a viable vaccine against smallpox, there has been a steady advance in such protection against wide range of conditions, including influenza. Indeed thanks to worldwide inoculation, the disfiguring and life-threatening smallpox has been eradicated.Yet health experts, including the United Nations’ World Health Organization are warning that the extraordinary achievements of vaccines are being undermined by a growing resistance against inoculation, motivated in large measure by distrust.This is not...
June 21, 2019

Vaccination programs should be trusted

Trump goes for a second term
UNFORTUNATELY, truly rational argument, even among the scientific community, has become something of a minority sport. In today’s democratic politics, rationality is rarely practiced. More often than not, driven on by the baying hounds of social media, politicians prefer to highlight vapid sentiment rather than engage in closely-argued debate.When politicians stand up and tell an audience they “want to be clear,” it is almost a given that they are about to produce a statement of almost pure fudge, especially if this is in response to an awkward question they do not wish to answer.It is small wonder that throughout Europe and North America, trust in politicians is so low. It was the contempt in which most US voters held their bipartisan and deeply polarized political establishment...
June 20, 2019

Trump goes for a second term

An empty peace offer in Libya
THE tragedy of Libya is that the majority of armed men do not lack for weaponry and ammunition but are largely deficient in training and tactics. Thus major urban battles turn into hugely destructive slugfests. The Libyan National Army (LNA) took two years to overwhelm the Muslim Brotherhood-backed terrorists who had seized large parts of Benghazi. The fight for the terrorists’ final stronghold around the port left the area in ruins. Largely lacking the discipline and proper command and control of well-trained soldiers, the LNA could only use artillery and bombing to blast away the last of the defenders.The same was true when largely Misratan forces acting nominally on behalf of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), the internationally-installed government led by Fayez...
June 19, 2019

An empty peace offer in Libya

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