Subpage under development, new version coming soon!
¡¡¡Tema cerrado!!!
Asunto: News Around The World
And when you're finished with the deutch, i suggest you go for the italians too, half of the Colliseum should be yours.
Biden to Putin: 'Don't Tell Us, Show Us'
...the message could not be any clearer, Merkel / Hollande proposal really ennoyed me, as it seems just like a hopeless stunt or a photo opportunity, for them "working towards peace" or that they have been monouvered into in the name of peace, in reality this proposal is waste of time, unfortunatelly... mainly because its starts from a defeated position (for Ukraine), also it seems to have no impact on the aggesors, as they will just continue to do what they did... its just a vicious cycle. In my opinion the chances for peace or the end of the conflict by now are minuscul, very unfortunately.
Zbigniew Brzezinski - If Putin seizes Riga and Tallinn
(editado)
...the message could not be any clearer, Merkel / Hollande proposal really ennoyed me, as it seems just like a hopeless stunt or a photo opportunity, for them "working towards peace" or that they have been monouvered into in the name of peace, in reality this proposal is waste of time, unfortunatelly... mainly because its starts from a defeated position (for Ukraine), also it seems to have no impact on the aggesors, as they will just continue to do what they did... its just a vicious cycle. In my opinion the chances for peace or the end of the conflict by now are minuscul, very unfortunately.
Zbigniew Brzezinski - If Putin seizes Riga and Tallinn
(editado)
I have question for you, if Merkel, Holland and Obama will not selling weapon to coup government will poland stop its supplies too ?
Of you want war for any costs ?
Of you want war for any costs ?
@Merkel / Hollande proposal
They know that this conflict was started by west and not it is out of controll so they want to fix their mistakes.
I can say, EU finally realized own mistakes and now start using brain to stop that conflict.
They know that this conflict was started by west and not it is out of controll so they want to fix their mistakes.
I can say, EU finally realized own mistakes and now start using brain to stop that conflict.
Yes, exactly. Thank God its over. Now Merkel should tell the rebels to stop fighting, i'm sure they will listen.
Coup government started by the EU, and the weakness of Merkel and Hollande shows they use their brains as they finally realize they started this invasion war of Russia.
Yeh right, that's a good summary of the situation! LOL
Yeh right, that's a good summary of the situation! LOL
Two false paths for Europe — and a new third way
Tony Blair
Rather than austerity plus reform we must offer growth and reform, writes Tony Blair
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROofn1Tc
E
urope as an entity and as an ideal is more needed than ever. The individual countries of Europe need the collective power of Europe to assert their interests, influence and values. Yet, as the impasse over Greece confirms, the continent is in crisis.
Many assume that some form of compromise is in the offing. Debt can somehow be kicked down the road. The Greek government will bend; the troika of creditors — the EU, ECB and International Monetary Fund — will bend and somewhere in the middle the two will come together.
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROoliI33
I do not see it. Greece is part of a much wider problem. Athens is right to say that the situation is unsustainable; but the solution it proposes is wrong. The rest of Europe has imposed a burden on Greece that could never be borne for any length of time. I do not know what would happen in the UK if our economy contracted by 25 per cent; but I suspect it would be revolutionary.
The dilemma confronting Greece mirrors the dilemma confronting Europe. The country knows that departing the euro would — in the short term at least — be catastrophic; but the pain of keeping to the constraints is unbearable. However the structural reforms desired by the rest of Europe are indeed necessary. That is why the problem with the Greek government is not simply debt repayment; it is opposition to reform.
As has been obvious for some time, unless the eurozone can grow strongly, with a significant improvement in employment, political tensions will mount. It is true that some economies show real signs of recovery. But unfortunately not far enough or fast enough for the politics. Some of the politics will break to the left; some to the right; and as often happens in this situation, far left and far right find common ground.
The only solution is for the centre ground in European politics to retake the initiative. This requires a grand bargain in which the European economy is stimulated, both by fiscal and monetary means; and in return there is in each country a clear, verifiable and enforceable programme of structural reform.
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROoqmXYW
This cannot be done by a series of steps, manoeuvre by manoeuvre, country by country. For the bargain to work, everyone has to see that they benefit. The countries which must reform need the comfort of a Europe-wide agreement.
Germany needs to be able to justify any forbearance by saying the others have agreed to its position on reform in the way genuinely necessary to achieve long-term competitive change. What is needed is more than a technical programme. The impact of the bargain has to be big enough to represent a new way forward; big enough to dominate European political debate and bigger than an isolated deal over Greece.
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROp0tPMW
Otherwise Europe is in a fix over Greece: either it makes a deal which is seen as a major concession to the Greek government and then sets a benchmark for others to aim at, undermining those governments that have tried to comply with Europe’s conditions; or Greece caves in; or Greece leaves the eurozone.
Austerity plus reform was never a good choice to offer Europe. We have to offer growth plus reform. Macroeconomic policy should do what it takes to get there. This is essentially what the leadership in Italy and France have been arguing. Many others now agree.
The platform of the nationalists and anti-reform parties of left and right offer what they always offer: anger but not answers. They peddle ghastly and reactionary myths about immigrants; they pretend that complex problems have easy pain-free solutions; and there is a worrying authoritarianism (evident in their admiration for the Vladimir Putin brand of leadership) which lurks only a little beneath the surface. But if the centre does not lead, the extremes will be followed. The Greek crisis is an opportunity. It has to be seized.
The writer was prime minister of Britain from 1997 to 2007
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#axzz3ROoLA2Ff
Tony Blair
Rather than austerity plus reform we must offer growth and reform, writes Tony Blair
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROofn1Tc
E
urope as an entity and as an ideal is more needed than ever. The individual countries of Europe need the collective power of Europe to assert their interests, influence and values. Yet, as the impasse over Greece confirms, the continent is in crisis.
Many assume that some form of compromise is in the offing. Debt can somehow be kicked down the road. The Greek government will bend; the troika of creditors — the EU, ECB and International Monetary Fund — will bend and somewhere in the middle the two will come together.
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROoliI33
I do not see it. Greece is part of a much wider problem. Athens is right to say that the situation is unsustainable; but the solution it proposes is wrong. The rest of Europe has imposed a burden on Greece that could never be borne for any length of time. I do not know what would happen in the UK if our economy contracted by 25 per cent; but I suspect it would be revolutionary.
The dilemma confronting Greece mirrors the dilemma confronting Europe. The country knows that departing the euro would — in the short term at least — be catastrophic; but the pain of keeping to the constraints is unbearable. However the structural reforms desired by the rest of Europe are indeed necessary. That is why the problem with the Greek government is not simply debt repayment; it is opposition to reform.
As has been obvious for some time, unless the eurozone can grow strongly, with a significant improvement in employment, political tensions will mount. It is true that some economies show real signs of recovery. But unfortunately not far enough or fast enough for the politics. Some of the politics will break to the left; some to the right; and as often happens in this situation, far left and far right find common ground.
The only solution is for the centre ground in European politics to retake the initiative. This requires a grand bargain in which the European economy is stimulated, both by fiscal and monetary means; and in return there is in each country a clear, verifiable and enforceable programme of structural reform.
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROoqmXYW
This cannot be done by a series of steps, manoeuvre by manoeuvre, country by country. For the bargain to work, everyone has to see that they benefit. The countries which must reform need the comfort of a Europe-wide agreement.
Germany needs to be able to justify any forbearance by saying the others have agreed to its position on reform in the way genuinely necessary to achieve long-term competitive change. What is needed is more than a technical programme. The impact of the bargain has to be big enough to represent a new way forward; big enough to dominate European political debate and bigger than an isolated deal over Greece.
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3ROp0tPMW
Otherwise Europe is in a fix over Greece: either it makes a deal which is seen as a major concession to the Greek government and then sets a benchmark for others to aim at, undermining those governments that have tried to comply with Europe’s conditions; or Greece caves in; or Greece leaves the eurozone.
Austerity plus reform was never a good choice to offer Europe. We have to offer growth plus reform. Macroeconomic policy should do what it takes to get there. This is essentially what the leadership in Italy and France have been arguing. Many others now agree.
The platform of the nationalists and anti-reform parties of left and right offer what they always offer: anger but not answers. They peddle ghastly and reactionary myths about immigrants; they pretend that complex problems have easy pain-free solutions; and there is a worrying authoritarianism (evident in their admiration for the Vladimir Putin brand of leadership) which lurks only a little beneath the surface. But if the centre does not lead, the extremes will be followed. The Greek crisis is an opportunity. It has to be seized.
The writer was prime minister of Britain from 1997 to 2007
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/41cde6ce-afb4-11e4-a418-00144feab7de.html#axzz3ROoLA2Ff
Rebels can listen to merkel and they will like stop defending their country if fascist ukraine army supported by west will stop killing their civil inhabitants from far distance...
We call people attacking civil inhabitants as terrorists !
We call people attacking civil inhabitants as terrorists !
About Blair's article, there's only one thing to say:
mercantilism
the idea of "reform" hides a very dangerous fact.
We are not discussing about WHAT we want, but only about HOW to get it.
We tak for granted the objective: competitivness.
But competitiveness is useful for a mercantilistic way (low salaries, big export, little import)
if we imagine a cohesive society and redistributive politic we should change the GOAL:
the goal should be that work productivity must be proportional to the salary, higher salaries, grow of INTERNAL demand, etc etc (look at USA or Western Europe politics until 1980)
The fact that nobody sees that "reform" means make poorer workers, it's the signal that this operation of ideological domination is winning.
In fact we see and hear a lot of "working class" people claiming for a mercantilist politic that is going to kill their own wage and rights..
mercantilism
the idea of "reform" hides a very dangerous fact.
We are not discussing about WHAT we want, but only about HOW to get it.
We tak for granted the objective: competitivness.
But competitiveness is useful for a mercantilistic way (low salaries, big export, little import)
if we imagine a cohesive society and redistributive politic we should change the GOAL:
the goal should be that work productivity must be proportional to the salary, higher salaries, grow of INTERNAL demand, etc etc (look at USA or Western Europe politics until 1980)
The fact that nobody sees that "reform" means make poorer workers, it's the signal that this operation of ideological domination is winning.
In fact we see and hear a lot of "working class" people claiming for a mercantilist politic that is going to kill their own wage and rights..
I hear the latest plan of Greece how to solve their problem.
They need news "small" loan to fix things. But nobody want lent them anymore :-DD
The greeks are always same, they can fix anything just with foreign money :-D
The second plan is just cancel some loans :-D. Every plan is very good. really good.
They need news "small" loan to fix things. But nobody want lent them anymore :-DD
The greeks are always same, they can fix anything just with foreign money :-D
The second plan is just cancel some loans :-D. Every plan is very good. really good.
WORLD PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2014 GOES TO MADS NISSEN
The jury of the 58th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by Danish photographer Mads Nissen as the World Press Photo of the Year 2014. Nissen is a staff photographer for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken and is represented by Scanpix and Panos Pictures. The picture shows Jon and Alex, a gay couple, during an intimate moment in St Petersburg, Russia. Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people is becoming increasingly difficult in Russia. Sexual minorities face legal and social discrimination, harassment, and even violent hate-crime attacks from conservative religious and nationalistic groups.
The photo also won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category. Discover all of the winners and the awarded photos in an image gallery along with exclusive jury interviews.
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/content/world-press-photo-year-2014-goes-mads-nissen
The jury of the 58th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by Danish photographer Mads Nissen as the World Press Photo of the Year 2014. Nissen is a staff photographer for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken and is represented by Scanpix and Panos Pictures. The picture shows Jon and Alex, a gay couple, during an intimate moment in St Petersburg, Russia. Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people is becoming increasingly difficult in Russia. Sexual minorities face legal and social discrimination, harassment, and even violent hate-crime attacks from conservative religious and nationalistic groups.
The photo also won first prize in the Contemporary Issues category. Discover all of the winners and the awarded photos in an image gallery along with exclusive jury interviews.
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/content/world-press-photo-year-2014-goes-mads-nissen
Greece bailout talks: No agreement in Brussels
Greek and eurozone officials have failed to reach an agreement over Greece's debt crisis, though both sides said there was still hope for a deal. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said seven hours of talks in Brussels had been "constructive". But they ended without a joint statement to outline procedural steps ahead of further talks next Monday.
Greece says its bailout deal with the EU is punitive and must end. The EU has warned Greece to abide by the deal. All are aware that the clock is ticking. If there is not an agreement within two weeks to extend the current bailout then Greece will not be eligible for a €7bn loan and shortly after will run out of money.
At the moment there is deadlock. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras cannot go back to the Greek people if the existing deal is extended. He will be accused of having misled the the voters. The Germans, the Dutch, the Spanish and others are not prepared to tell their voters that the Greeks are getting a new deal.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31432471
Greek and eurozone officials have failed to reach an agreement over Greece's debt crisis, though both sides said there was still hope for a deal. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said seven hours of talks in Brussels had been "constructive". But they ended without a joint statement to outline procedural steps ahead of further talks next Monday.
Greece says its bailout deal with the EU is punitive and must end. The EU has warned Greece to abide by the deal. All are aware that the clock is ticking. If there is not an agreement within two weeks to extend the current bailout then Greece will not be eligible for a €7bn loan and shortly after will run out of money.
At the moment there is deadlock. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras cannot go back to the Greek people if the existing deal is extended. He will be accused of having misled the the voters. The Germans, the Dutch, the Spanish and others are not prepared to tell their voters that the Greeks are getting a new deal.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31432471