Nothing would prevent us from doing the reverse this time. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, we could for once organise a peace conference before and not after the war, before the massacres and war crimes have multiplied and not after they have claimed hundreds of thousands of new victims in addition to those of the 1990s, because finally…
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The return of Alexeï Navalny to Russia, his new convictions, the demonstrations that followed and the brutality of their repression, the humiliating way in which Sergueï Lavrov received the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, in Moscow – all of this has given rise to many debates in the European Parliament.
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Plenary speech in the debate on political relations and cooperation between the EU and Taiwan
Mr President, Commissioner, dear colleagues, there are times when even a dictator can speak the truth. When Mr Xi Jinping says that Taiwan is China, yes, he is right. Taiwan is China, and it is the destiny of Taiwan and Communist China to reunite one day, just as West Germany and East Germany did, just as the two Koreas, let us hope, let us be certain, will do one day. But under what conditions?
We, parliamentarians from across Europe committed to a rules-based global order, share serious concerns about President Trump’s plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the imminent prospect of Israeli annexation of West Bank territory. We are deeply worried about the precedent this would set for international relations at large.
She was taken aback by my interest for her country. She could not imagine that a Frenchman could be curious to know more about Austria, and as I told her that I had lived in Vienna, known Kreisky and just written a book which delved into the question of the coalition between the political right and the extreme right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), Claudia Gamon’s eyes widened with surprise.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many doubts are voiced. Only 38 percent of Germans would consider that reunification was a success; do divisions still exist? Do the economic gaps between the former GDR and the rest of Germany, broadly speaking, reflect the image of a two-speed Europe?
by YASCHA MOUNK - Harvard University Press 2018
Yascha Mounk’s book published last year conquers both university reading rooms, but also many other agoras of intellectuals. Only last month, I participated in two panel discussions inspired by the book - in such different places as Istanbul and Łódź. Here the reader can find a summary of the book - which I truly recommend.
