May 27, 2021
BRUSSELS The European Union was once viewed as an important and credible actor in the Middle East, even a potential counterweight to the United States. No longer. During the recent upsurge in Israeli-Palestinian violence, the 27-member bloc has come across as little more than a passive bystander, distracted by deepening internal divisions and out of touch with both the changed power dynamics in the region and an emerging rights-focused policy discourse in Washington.
With a cease-fire in place since May 20, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell pointed to the need to move away from “crisis management mode” and solve the “underlying conflict” through “a true political and negotiated solution.” A newly appointed EU special representative for the Middle East, Dutch diplomat Sven Koopmans, will soon travel to the region to meet “key actors” from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and the United States.
It is multilateralism or bust when it comes to global threats
Javier Solana
May 26, 2021 22:24
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President Francois Hollande after consensus is reached at COP 21, Paris, 2015. (Reuters)
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In early 1981, a few days before Jimmy Carter handed over the US presidency to Ronald Reagan, a short story on Page 13 of The New York Times mentioned a report from the Council on Environmental Quality. This body, tasked with advising the US president, sounded the alarm about the link between the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and global warming. “Efforts should be begun immediately to develop and examine alternative global energy futures,” the report stated, also emphasizing that “international collaboration in assessing the carbon dioxide problem is particularly important.”
Multilateralism or bust By Javier Solana
MADRID ― In early 1981, a few days before Jimmy Carter handed over the U.S. presidency to Ronald Reagan, a short story on page 13 of The New York Times mentioned a report from the Council on Environmental Quality.
This body, tasked with advising the U.S. president, sounded the alarm about the link between the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and global warming. Efforts should be begun immediately to develop and examine alternative global energy futures, the report stated, also emphasizing that international collaboration in assessing the CO2 problem is particularly important.
Despite this and many other warnings dating back to the 1960s, Reagan distanced himself from the Carter administration s environmentalist agenda. In a symbolic gesture, the new president even removed the solar panels that his predecessor had installed on the White House.
By Rick ROZOFF Twenty-two years ago today the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was subjected to the 55th straight day of bombardment from the then 19-member…
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