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Dimi David Opsimoulis Fernandez | âge: 20 ans | activité: Etudiant.
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BLOG / athens
2011-06-16 21:55:27
Disunite Europe
THE ISSUE OF DISUNITING EUROPE APPEARED ON FEW OCCASIONS IN OUR EU STORY. WE SEE A UNION WANTING TO REFORM AND IMPROVE, NOT ONLY THE ECONOMIC SECTOR, BUT ALSO THE DECISION, MAKING PROCESS. AS WE ALREADY KNOW, THE UNION IS TRYING FOR YEARS NOW TO BUILD SOMETHING VERY UNIQUE AND SPECIAL, SUCH AS CONFERENCES, SUMMITS, TREATIES... IN UNIFICATION. THEY ARE FAR FROM BUILDING A FEDERATION, BUT THEY ARE HEADING THAT DIRECTION. BECAUSE OF THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES INVOLVED, THERE ARE DISCREPANCIES. THE LAST ECONOMIC CRISIS WAS THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL PROOF OF “DISORGANIZATION”. THERE ARE SIGNS FOR CHANGES TOWARD A MORE MATURE ECONOMY, BUT WE SEE THE PARTIES ARE STILL UNDECIDED. THERE ARE DEBATES ABOUT WHAT DECISIONS TO MAKE, SUCH AS IT WAS WITH THE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LIBYA. WE ARE NOT CRITICIZING THE EU INTERVENTION, BUT RATHER THE DECISION PROCESS REGARDING THE INTERVENTION IN THIS CASE EUROPE IS SPLIT WITH SOME COUNTRIES ENGAGED IN SENDING HELP AND OTHER COUNTRIES REFRAINING FROM THAT . WE ARE LEFT TO WONDER IF THERE ARE INDIVIDUAL INTERESTS FOR SOME OF THESE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES? IS EUROPE IS REALLY UNITED? THE PROMINENT GOOD THING ABOUT EUROPE, IS THAT IT IS A DEMOCRATIC UNIFICATION OF COUNTRIES. ON THIS BASIS, IT BRINGS SECURITY FOR SOME OF THE MEMBERS. DESPITE THE FLAWS IT REMAINS A DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIC UNION. IN THE COURSE OF THIS YEAR, EUROPE OVERCAME MANY CHALLENGES. THE MEMBER STATES COOPERATE TOGETHER IN OTHER SECTORS SUCH AS JUSTICE AND RESEARCH. THEY CREATED STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE DEMOCRATIC STABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT. DURING THE MAASTRICHT TREATY IN 1992, THEY TALKED ABOUT MULTIPLE SUBJECTS OF COOPERATION, SUCH AS A SINGLE EUROPEAN MARKET, BORDER CONTROL, SECURITY POLICY, UNION CITIZENSHIP, AND IMPORTANTLY A DEFENSE POLICY. HOWEVER, A UNIFIED DEFENSE POLICY FAILED IN THE PAST DURING THE IRAQ WAR, SO WHY WOULD IT WORK AGAIN? IT APPEARS THAT THERE ARE SEPARATE INTERESTS FOR EACH COUNTRY OF EUROPE. MILITARY INTERVENTION MAY NOT ONLY BE ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF EXISTING DICTATORSHIPS AND TO PROVIDE PROTECTION TO ALL COUNTRIES, BUT ALSO MAYBE ALSO ABOUT SELF-SERVING INTERESTS THAT DO NOT NECESSARILY HELP THE CAUSE OF EUROPE. DURING THE SPRING EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF 24 - 25 MARCH 2011, ONE OF THEIR TOPICS ON THE AGENDA WAS THE LIBYAN CRISIS. IT WAS STATED THAT THE UNION’S POLITICAL OBJECTIVES WERE THAT GADDAFI MUST GO AND THERE MUST BE A POLITICAL TRANSITION. IT WAS A UNITED AGREEMENT HOWEVER, THE WAY THE INTERVENTION HAPPENED SHOWED SELF-SERVING MOTIVES. IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE INTERVENTION HAS FOR PURPOSE TO BRING DEMOCRACY TO SUPPORT THE COMMON PEOPLE, BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS: WHY THEY DID NOT INTERVENE IN OTHER NON-DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES TO SUPPORT REBELLION SUCH AS CHINA OR THE IVORY COAST? THESE ARE INCONSISTENT DECISIONS. THE DISORGANIZATION OF EUROPE BECAME EVIDENT WITH THE LIBYAN CONFLICT BY THE ATTITUDE OF EACH OF THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES. THE BEHAVIOR WAS DISCORDANT. FOR EXAMPLE. GERMANY, WAS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AGAINST THE INTERVENTION EVEN AFTER THE APPROBATION OF NATO. ON THE OTHER HAND, ITALY WAS AT FIRST UNWILLING TO INTERVENE, BECAUSE OF THEIR PAST COLONIALISM ASSOCIATION WITH LYBIA AND THE INDEPENDENCE WAR THEY HAD CAUSED. BUT FOLLOWING THE US INTERVENTION, ITALY WAS THEN READY TO PROVIDE MILITARY AIRPORTS TO ATTACK LIBYA. THIS GESTURE WENT AGAINST WHAT THEY INITIALLY SAID. THE INTEREST IN EXPELLING THE EXISTING LYBIAN LEADERSHIP MAY HAVE LIED IN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CEASE PAYING COMPENSATIONS FOR THE WAR THEY HAD CAUSED, AS THEY ARE CONTRACTED TO DO. OTHER EXAMPLES, ARE FRANCE AND THE UK WHO WERE THE FIRST TO ATTACK LIBYA. MEDIA REPORTS STATED THE INTERESTS OF FRANCE IN THE CONFLICT AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF GAINS FROM OIL RESOURCES, ASSERTION OF POWER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA (MEDITERRANEAN UNION) OR SHOWCASING THE EFFICACY OF THEIR NEW MILITARY AIRPLANES. THE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION MAY HAVE BEEN A FUNDAMENTAL FACTOR AS WELL. IN FACT, THE ATTACK COULDN’T HAVE OCCURRED IF THE COUNTRIES NEIGHBORING LYBIA WOULDN’T HAVE OFFERED SUPPORT SUCH AS, GREECE, WHO WAS AGAINST THE INTERVENTION IN THE BEGINNING. MOREOVER, WHY HAVEN’T OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE? IF IT IS A UNITED EUROPE ALL COUNTRIES NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN ALL DECISIONS TOGETHER AS THEY ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT. THE SITUATION SEEMS MORE CLEAR NOW: THERE ARE SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE UNION. REGARDING AGAIN THE LYBIAN CRISIS, THERE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN A GREAT DEAL OF CONFUSION ABOUT THE WEAPONS REARMAMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY LIBYANS, ONCE AGAIN, THEY WERE AGAINST THE INTERVENTION AT FIRST, BUT THEN FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT, A DECISION WAS MADE TO ATTACK. THERE WERE THOUGHTS THAT IT WOULD BE AN ‘AMERICAN’ MILITARY INTERVENTION, BUT IT WAS NOT THE CASE LIKE IN THE PAST. IT SEEMS THAT THE DISORGANIZED EUROPE DOES NOT WANT TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR. FOR SUCH REASON THE MEDIA ADDRESSES EACH COUNTRY’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONFLICT SEPARATELY. INITIALLY, THE SINGLE COUNTRIES ACT SEPARATELY AND ONLY LATER, THEY ARE PORTRAYED AS A ‘UNIFIED ’ POWER. THIS IS WHY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ADOPTED A DECISION ON 1 APRIL 2011 CONCERNING A EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY OPERATION IN SUPPORT OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN LIBYA. TO UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE, WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE RESULTS OF THE WAR; NOT ONLY IN LIBYA BUT ALSO FOR EACH OF THE COUNTRIES INVOLVED. EACH COUNTRY HAS DIFFERENT OPTIONS. EUROPE AS A UNION MAY NOT ASSUME THE CONSEQUENCES AND THE RESPONSIBILITY. MOREOVER, THERE IS A QUESTION ABOUT WHAT KIND OF LIBYA THEY WANT TO CREATE. IF THERE THE CONCERN IS ONLY TO BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE COUNTRY, THEN ALL IS FINE; BUT USUALLY THE COUNTRIES WHO INTERVENED WANTS TO CONTROL THE COUNTRY IN QUESTION. IT IS NOT A SIMPLE TASK TO BRING DEMOCRACY TO ANOTHER COUNTRY FROM ONE DAY TO ANOTHER; THE MENTALITY OF THE PEOPLE HAS TO BE RIPE. HOWEVER, TO PERFORM SUCH TASK REQUIRES HARD WORK FROM DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES. IF THEY WERE UNITED, COUNTRIES FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION COULD PERHAPS HELP AT FIRST BY ESTABLISHING INSTITUTIONS. THE EU STANDS READY TO HELP A NEW LIBYA ECONOMICALLY, BY BUILDING ITS NEW INSTITUTIONS. MUST CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE ARAB LEAGUE, THE AFRICAN UNION, AND THE UNITED NATIONS. AS WE KNOW EUROPE IS AGAINST WAR BUT THEY ARE HIDING BEHIND WORDS SUCH AS: ‘RESOLUTION’, ‘ACTION’... COULD THE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, INCLUDING THOSE WHO DID NOT INTERVENE, BRING SECURITY TO LIBYA? COULD THIS EPISODE TRULY ASSURE FUTURE SECURITY IN EUROPE? WILL ALL THE PARTIES INVOLVED WORK AS A UNION TO MAKE DECISIONS ECONOMICALLY AS WELL AS FUNCTIONALLY? WILL THEY LEARN A LESSON FROM THIS DISUNITED ACTION? THE WHOLE SITUATION OF LIBYA PROVED THAT EUROPE IS NOT REALLY UNITED, BUT RATHER THAT IT IS CONFUSED ABOUT ITS COURSE OF ACTION. WE HOPE THAT IS NOT GO TO BE LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE AND, EVEN NOW, THEY WILL TAKE SOME COMMON DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO. HOW THEY ARE GO TO SAVE THEMSELVES AND THE OTHERS. ONCE THEY ARE IN, THEY HAVE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE POINT, BUT WITH THE LESS POSSIBLE DAMAGE. LET’S REALIZE THAT EUROPE AS A UNION CAN BRING PEACE AND SECURITY BUT IT SHOULD BE MORE UNITED. EACH COUNTRY HAS TO LET GO OF ITS NATIONALISM, AND FOSTER MORE COOPERATION BETWEEN ALL PARTIES. THERE NEEDS TO BE A STRONGEST AND UNIFIED DEFENSE POLICY ALONG WITH A CONSTITUTION TO CREATE AN INCISIVE AND PERTINENT POLITICAL FIELD IN EUROPE. Sur le blog athens.
BLOG / athens
2011-06-15 17:06:45
Gay neighborhood in Greece
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