Reflectii

“America is back at the table,” President Joe Biden said at a press conference Sunday in Cornwall following his first G-7 summit. That statement perhaps best encapsulated Biden’s message during his maiden voyage overseas. While he didn’t mention his predecessor by name, the contrast with Donald Trump couldn’t have been clearer. And it certainly came as a relief to the other G-7 leaders, as the summit was mercifully free of temper tantrums and Twitter tirades.

The Biden administration released its strategy to counter domestic terrorism, detailing how the U.S. government plans to respond to the growing threat.

The strategy, the first of its kind, is comprised of four main pillars that each focus on a different aspect of the domestic terrorism threat.

Review could reshape cooperation with domestic agencies, consequences for troops’ social media posts, and more.

How do you define extremism? That’s one question the Defense Department is asking itself as it works to implement the first National Strategic for Countering Domestic Terrorism, released by the White House this week.

The European Union (EU) has adopted a new regulation that is designed to crack down on the dissemination of terrorist content online.

Despite safeguards to preserve freedom of speech, the new EU regulation is unlikely to curb potential tension with U.S. free-speech standards.

The new EU regulation can result in the imposition of financial penalties for non-compliance.

După un an de COVID-19 în care privații au stat la cutie și au făcut bani din teste, guvernul Cîțu a dus mai departe opera lobbystului Victor Costache: au avut pe masă o ordonanță, deocamdată amânată, prin care mai dau un vagon de bani publici sănătății private.

L’avenir les inquiète, le passé les rassure, le déclin les hante. Si les Français se passionnent pour leur histoire, ce n’est pas pour comprendre le présent, c’est parce que c’était mieux avant depuis toujours !

Je vous parle d’un pays lointain.

Ses habitants sont les plus intelligents, les plus riches et, on ne sait pourquoi, les plus malheureux du monde. Dans leur suffisance infinie, ils se croient seuls sur terre, ils n’ont d’ennemis qu’eux-mêmes. Contrairement aux Austriaques et aux Estivaldins – des peuplades voisines qui sans être barbares leur restent terriblement étrangères –, ils ne sont ni du Nord ni du Sud, ils sont situés au centre du monde civilisé, avec vue sur la montagne ou sur la mer ; ils sont convaincus depuis longtemps que leurs frontières, dictées moins par l’histoire que par leur destin, dessinent un hexagone, c’est-à-dire les contours d’un espace mental.

Și, Doamne!, ce s-au mai îmbuibat secole la rînd.

Ori de câte ori mergi prin capitalele alea mari, celebre, devenite adevărate locuri de pelerinaj turististic, nu poți să nu se strângă inima în tine. Uite, în Paris, palatul ăsta e din banii din colonia aia. Iar statuia asta din Londra e din exploatarea poporului celălalt.

The Memorandum of Understanding signed recently by Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine on enhanced cooperation toward European Union (EU) membership highlights both progress and overall shortcomings of the EU’s Eastern policy. Despite the Union enlarging to the East in 2004 and 2007 – and the fact that Russian aggression has long been felt on EU territory – the bloc’s Eastern policy still does not reflect realities on the ground. However, the recent buildup of Russian military in Ukraine, as well as the deployment of Russian ‘peacekeepers’ in Nagorno-Karabakh, has created momentum for an urgently needed rethink of the Union’s Eastern neighborhood policy. This in turn could pave the way for membership for Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Series Note: We are in the middle of an unprecedented crisis as the Covid-19 pandemic, and the lockdowns implemented in response, continue to deliver a series of economic, social and psychological shocks to the world. In this time of chaos, some of the world’s most powerful interest groups have stepped forward claiming that this crisis presents an opportunity to ‘reset’ the world’s systems.

This week, the story I followed most closely wasn’t a breaking news item or global development, but an important debate taking place in Washington these days over whether or not restraint should serve as the guiding framework for U.S. foreign policy.