Pe vremea lui Ceaușescu, circula un banc despre armata albaneză. Se spune că puterea de foc a antiaeriei din această țară se rezuma la semne amenințătoare făcute cu degetul către piloții inamici. Astăzi, însă, lucrurile sunt pe cale să se schimbe spectaculos, iar țărilr vecine, de pildă Grecia sau Serbia, simt presiunea.
German lawmakers said that banning the Hamas flag was aimed at sending “a clear signal” of support “to our Jewish citizens.” Others, however, dismissed the ban as an empty gesture aimed at silencing critics of the German government’s pro-Islamist foreign policy ahead of upcoming federal elections this September.
Now in its 11th year, the United Nations mission in the conflict riddled Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues its unabated efforts to protect civilians and work toward peace, engaging with any number of local stakeholders as well as regional and continental blocs and bodies.
One example of the commitment shown by MONUSCO, the French acronym for the UN Stabilisation Mission in the DRC, comes from a report prepared by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ staff.
“We are starting to get used to making history,” Lapid quipped, noting that he had inaugurated the Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi the day before.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid inaugurated Israel’s Consulate in Dubai on Wednesday, on the second day of the first trip to the United Arab Emirates by an Israeli minister since the countries established diplomatic ties.
На саммите Евросоюза в Брюсселе состоялась “самая острая дискуссия за последние несколько лет”. Двухчасовое обсуждение, “временами эмоциональное”, было посвящено — нет, не необходимости организовать в ближайшее время саммит с Путиным, который предложили провести Меркель и Макрон.
Обсуждали действия “европейского Путина”, давно уже вызывающего у евроинтеграторов изжогу. “Ты пересек красную линию! Это не та Европа, в которой я хочу жить!” — возмущался премьер-министр Люксембурга. “Я намерен поставить их на колени. На этот раз все зашло слишком далеко! Им больше нечего делать в ЕС”, — добавлял премьер Нидерландов. “Позор! Исключить!” — все это кричали премьер-министру Венгрии Виктору Орбану, требуя от него объяснений из-за принятого на днях в Венгрии закона о запрете пропаганды ЛГБТ (в том числе в школах и среди несовершеннолетних). Лидеры 17 из 27 стран подписали обращение к Орбану с призывом отменить закон — но венгерский премьер стоял на своем. Защищаем семьи — и все тут.
The morning after a Russian-American summit is most critical to know whether the previous day’s bonhomie was real, surreal or unreal. Surveying the Geneva Summit (June 16) between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, I cautiously assessed the next day,
Modern warfare is waged with high-tech weapons. Each battle fought eats up loads of ammunition and modern weapons systems need spare parts and fuel. All this meaning that no military action is possible without an advanced economy and supplies. Even terrorist organizations forced to go deep into the underground have to set up laboratories and workshops to produce homemade explosives and weapons. Incidentally, it is exactly this “underground industry” that makes them vulnerable to the intelligence services. Therefore, one might think that large and internationally outlawed groups of terrorists and separatists simply can’t exist for long because they will be left with virtually nothing to fight with.
Follow the money. O expresie celebră din zona politicii, înfiptă în mintea oamenilor odată cu scandalul Watergate și cu filmul All The President’s Men.
Ciudate timpuri trăim şi stranii perspective ni se deschid în faţa existenţei europene, în condiţiile în care liderii politici nu încetează să pledeze electoral despre nevoia de solidaritate europeană. Departe de a mai convinge pe cineva, efectul începe să fie chiar o afundare în ridicol şi desuetudine (ceea ce nu ar fi ceva nou în cazul multora dintre ei) şi o demonstraţie a faliei care începe să se confirme la nivelul construcţiei europene.
C’est l’une des premières mesures prises par Joe Biden : annuler l’interdiction édictée par Donald Trump de s’engager dans l’armée sous une “identité de genre”, celle que les transgenres peuvent faire reconnaître à l’état-civil. Les soldats qui n’auraient pas passé le cap peuvent aussi, désormais, se faire opérer aux frais de l’institution.
À peine finie la cérémonie de son investiture, qui a nécessité le déploiement de 25 000 soldats de la garde nationale le 20 janvier 2021, Joe Biden, le nouveau président américain et commandant en chef des armées, a pris une décision : celle d’annuler l’interdiction pour les personnes transgenres de s’engager sous leur « identité de genre » (celle qu’ils ont choisie). Cet interdit édicté par Donald Trump dès 2017 avait été validé par la Cour suprême en 2019.