Europa/Rusia

Successful launch of the South Stream pipeline Kremlin’s geopolitical

Putin inaugurates Pharaonic site of South Stream RL, December 7, 2012 Near Anapa on the Black Sea, the Russian president attended yesterday's official launch ceremony of the new site giant Gazprom pipeline South Stream, which will link Russia and Europe. South Stream is the main competitor of Nabucco project supported by Brussels to reduce dependence on Russian gas. Need to build South Stream was raised for the first time in 2005. North Stream pipeline also recently put into operation, the project was a response to numerous gas war with Ukraine, which has a monopoly on transit Russian gas to Europe. Memorandum on the construction of the new pipeline was signed [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:56+02:00December 7th, 2012|Europa/Rusia|0 Comments

America’s PAcific Logic

GEOPOLITICS WITH ROBERT D.KAPLAN STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE, April 4, 2012 | The Obama administration "pivot" to the Pacific, formally announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last November and reiterated more recently by the president himself, might appear like a reassertion of America's imperial tendencies just at the time when Washington should be concentrating on the domestic economy. But in fact, the pivot was almost inevitable. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, signaling communism's defeat in Europe, security experts talked about a shift in diplomatic and military energies to the Pacific. But Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 led to a decadelong preoccupation with the Middle East, with [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:56+02:00November 5th, 2012|America, Europa/Rusia, International Studies, Oceania & Polar Regions, Orientul Mijlociu|Comments Off on America’s PAcific Logic

Europe wants single army and police

Foreign ministers from 11 Member States propose measures for further integration in the European Union Leaders of 11 European countries (Future Group) want to create a new pan-European Foreign Ministry, with more power, a European army and a single market for defense industry. The initiative belongs to Germany, is supported by the other 10 of the 27 Member States and refers to the direct election of the President of the EU Parliament and new responsibilities for the establishment of a parliamentary sub-rooms for the 17 euro area countries. The idea of ​​a European army is not supported by all countries, but the document requires the establishment of a new joint [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:57+02:00September 20th, 2012|Europa/Rusia, Regions|0 Comments

“Gigantic” nu sună bine în rusă

29 Septembrie 2012, http://www.romanialibera.ro/opinii/editorial/gigantic-nu-suna-bine-in-rusa-278962.html   Implicarea făţişă a Rusiei în conflictul politic care a paralizat, vara aceasta, România nu mai are nevoie de nici o demonstraţie. Intraţi pe pagina de internet a radioului Vocea Rusiei, care recunoaşte cu mândrie că "modelează imaginea Rusiei în străinătate din 29 octombrie 1929 şi până azi" pe banii poporului sovietic şi ulterior a celui rus şi o să găsiţi zeci de texte în care liderii USL erau fie criticaţi pentru "defetismul" de care au dat dovadă în lupta contra lui Băsescu, fie aplaudaţi pentru contraofensive, fie lăudaţi pentru curajul de a da de pământ cu europenii Barroso, Merkel, Reding sau americanii Gitenstein şi Gordon. [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:57+02:00September 29th, 2012|Europa/Rusia, Regions|0 Comments

Cum ar putea arăta o Federaţie a statelor europene

http://www.adevarul.ro/international/foreign_policy/web_exclusive/putea-arata-Federatie-statelor-europene_0_777522476.html#   20 septembrie 2012 Preşedintele Comisiei Europene Jose Barroso declara recent că UE trebuie să se transforme într-o federaţie a statelor europene. Grupul viitorului, format din 11 state europene conduse de Germania, propune o armată, o poliţie şi un Minister european de externe. Există două soluţii pentru viitorul UE: o federaţie sau o confederaţie. Miniştrii de externe din Germania, Franţa, Italia, Spania, Polonia, Olanda, Belgia, Danemarca, Austria, Portugalia şi Luxemburg susţin o reformă radicală a politicii europene şi de apărare comună - unul dintre pilonii interguvernamentali ai UE. Acesta ar urma să fie comunitarizat prin crearea unui minister pan-european al Afacerilor Externe, al unei armate şi unei poliţii europene care [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:57+02:00September 20th, 2012|Europa/Rusia, Regions|0 Comments
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