#FactOfTheDay – 12/10/2018 – A controversial choice for the new Head of the Francophonie
The Francophone Summit: a staple in the calendar of the French-speaking regions of the world and many observer countries. Being held in Yerevan, Armenia on the 11th-12th of October, this…
#FactOfTheDay – 11/10/2018 Re-education camps for Muslim minorities now legal under Chinese law
The Xinjiang region, the largest Chinese administrative division, is home to detention centres or re-education camps for Muslim minorities officially established to tackle Islamic extremism or fundamentalism. First kept a…
FactOfTheDay – 10/10/2018 : Nikki Haley resigns as UN ambassador
Yesterday, an announcement flabbergasted the United Nations members. Nikki Haley, United States’ official representative at the UN, decided to leave the vessel though she was very much appreciated by a…
Regain de l’extrême droite en Allemagne : un nouveau défi pour l’Europe
La ville de Chemnitz située dans la région de la Saxe, fortement marquée à droite, est depuis plusieurs semaines le théâtre d’importantes manifestations anti-migrants portées principalement par des groupes…
#FactOfTheDay 09/10/2018 – Elections in Brazil: The Far Right Largely Ahead
Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate, topped the first round of Brazilian general elections. With a score of 46.06%, Bolsonaro is ahead of the candidate of the Worker’s Party of Lula,…
#FactOfTheDay 08/10/2018 – European Court of Auditors warns the EU against empty promises
Klaus-Heiner Leine, the president of the European Court of Auditors, warns the EU against hollow promises. He explains that the EU institutions commit to new projects on a regular basis…
#FactOfTheDay 05/10/2018 – Palermo will host international Conference on Libya
Italy’s foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi has announced that on 12-13 November Palermo will host an international meeting aimed at helping bring peace to turmoil-wracked Libya. “Italy has never doubted…
#LaRéplique – Par-delà les rhétoriques binaires entre “progressistes” et “nationalistes”
Ci-dessus, sur la toile peinte par Paolo Uccello vers 1470, on peut y reconnaître Saint Georges (le bien) combattant le dragon (le mal). Mais ce qui nous intéresse sur ce…
#FactOfTheDay 04/10/18 – London accuses Russian military intelligence of global cyberattacks
On Thursday October 4th, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt accused Russian military intelligence of conducting « indiscriminate and reckless » cyberattacks against political and sports institutions,…
«Ça suffit!» ont clairement déclaré à Viktor Orban les députés européens. Et maintenant ?
Le débat au Parlement européen a été d’une rare intensité et la majorité recueillie exceptionnellement forte, en conclusion d’une demande de lancer contre la Hongrie une procédure, celle de l’article…