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December GEAB - June 2014: Europe retakes control of its neighbourhood policy
The same
day as the Ukraine’s refusal to sign the association agreement with the EU, the
two powers to show their joint indignation were the EU…and the US. Catherine
Ashton, a good little soldier, certainly continues to play her role by now
accusing the Ukrainian president, Viktor Ianoukovytch, of corruption. But since
the UK continues to distance itself from the European continent, the Americans
are obliged to come forward unmasked and everything is becoming clearer over
who is behind the EU enlargement policy for at least two decades. It’s probably
now that it’s the most annoying because it’s the clearest, but US policy here
has certainly been more effective when it was camouflaged. In fact, we are
witnessing the last desperate attempts to exploit the EU in favour of US
strategic interests...
British aid
to train Ukrainian riot troops
British aid
money intended to help the poorest people in the world has been spent by the
European Union on training Ukrainian soldiers in riot control, The Telegraph
can reveal...
No easy fix
for broken Brent oil benchmark
The oil
industry hopes Norway will bring plenty of new oil onstream to help fix the
Brent benchmark as other solutions - such as adding Russian or Nigerian crude
to the North Sea mix - pose too many risks, executives and traders said...
US
criticised by UN for human rights failings on NSA, guns and drones
The US came
under sharp criticism at the UN human rights committee in Geneva on Thursday
for a long list of human rights abuses that included everything from detention
without charge at Guantánamo, drone strikes and NSA surveillance, to the death
penalty, rampant gun violence and endemic racial inequality...
The Guardian
Racisme à tous les niveaux en Italie
L'Italie en crise, ne semble pas prête à une réflexion
profonde sur l'intégration. Nous tenterons de comprendre pourquoi. Et puis la
campagne des européennes avec la nomination des chefs de file des partis...
Facebook’s
Mark Zuckerberg: Washington is ‘a threat’ to the Internet
Silicon
Valley companies like Facebook have been openly critical of the Obama
administration for its surveillance practices. But that's apparently not enough
for Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who lashed out Thursday at
Washington...
Is there a
way out of Ukrainian crisis?
Under the
inept leadership of President Barack Obama and the bumbling diplomacy of
Secretary of State John Kerry, the US is stumbling towards Cuban Missile Crisis
redux...
Europe
fails to bridge divide on banks reform
Europe
appeared far away from making good its crisis pledge to tackle weak banks as
lawmakers and country representatives failed on Wednesday to bridge differences
over how to close down troubled lenders...
Global
Banks’ Lending Falls 1.8% in Third Quarter, BIS Reports
Lending by
global banks fell by 1.8 percent in the third quarter of 2013, as loans to
other banks shrank at the fastest rate in more than a year, the Bank for
International Settlements said...
Pourquoi il
y a tant de commentaires pro-Poutine sur le Web
Comment
comprendre les centaines de commentaires pro-Poutine sur les sites d'info?
Réponses avec Pierre-Henri d'Argenson, spécialiste des questions
internationales à Sciences Po...
Oligarchs
throw their weight behind Kiev's revolutionary rulers
Vladimir
Putin’s gambit that Russia could change the course of the Ukraine revolution at
gunpoint has failed a crucial test as the country’s billionaire oligarchs line
up behind Kiev...
Turkish
police confront crowds mourning boy apparently killed by gas canister
Turkish
riot police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of mourners
who attended a funeral march Wednesday for a 15-year old boy...
CNN
Irish economy posts shock 2.3 pct decline in fourth quarter
Ireland's economy contracted by a shock 2.3 percent in the
fourth quarter from the previous three months as imports surged and consumer
spending fell, denting a recovery that had been gaining traction since the
completion of an EU/IMF bailout last year...
CNBC
Participez au prochain débat de notre cours en ligne à
l'Anticipation Politique: "L'importance de la Communication. Les marchés
financiers"
Le débat aura lieu le 15 mars prochain et fait partie
intégrante de notre cycle de cours. Ces derniers se déroulent sous forme de
Formation et Débat en ligne autour du thème suivant: « La crise systémique
globale selon les principes méthodologiques de l’Anticipation Politique ». Le
cours en ligne qui a commencé le 1er février dernier et durera jusqu’au 5 avril
prochain, se déroule donc sous forme de débats sur des thèmes d’importance
mondiale.
FEFAP
Le partenariat transatlantique risque d'accentuer les
poursuites contre les États
Des investisseurs réclament plus d'1,7 milliard d'euros à la
Grèce, à l'Espagne et à Chypre. Le phénomène pourrait s'aggraver si l'accord du
partenariat transatlantique avec les Etats-Unis était ratifié en l'état...
Euractiv
Troïka : A la place du FMI, le Parlement veut un Fonds
monétaire européen
Les eurodéputés ont dressé un bilan sévère de la troïka, à
commencer par son opacité et le manque d'efficacité de ses politiques...
Les Echos
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