We will have finally to accept it, and to abandon the territory irredentism on a identity reaction ground: the future Union will be larger geographically, it will be enliven by more people than today, and it will enjoy more competences which are nowadays national prerogatives, its expansive but voluntary non exhaustive ubiquity will continue to perpetuate the nation, commuting it timely in an integrated community. (weiterlesen…)
Three rights of citizenship for minorities
Will Kymlicka, in his Multicultural citizenship, pointed out three categories of rights for minorities within liberal democracy, which are suitable to explore European progresses in building an own citizenship, not dealing only with minorities protection, but rather strengthening their participation to the European land of rights. (weiterlesen…)
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the USA, Connecticut-born, famous oilman, governor of Texas between 1994 and 1998, son of former president, started his reelection campaign similarly Bill Clinton did in 1996. He has never officially announced he is running again but he obviously did. “It looks we have a winner in the Republican primary”, he pointed out to laughter. “The other party’s nomination is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group with diverse opinions: tax cuts, and against tax cuts, for NAFTA and against NAFTA, for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act, in favor of liberating Iraq and against liberating Iraq. And that’s just one senator from Massachusetts.” (weiterlesen…)
Despite the major need to be relativist considering their successes, the pacific revolutions, made of carnations, tulips, orange, or of jeans, have a common point: the movement starts from the incoming generation and its refusal of political systems where the “survey and punish” takes all its signification. If man starts from the principle that a revolution is the violent rupture of an order, with the dynamic to establish a new order, theses revolutions are however not. These movements are steps of evolution within a process of middle-term, often coupled with a necessary economical adjustment and structural political, social and societal reforms aiming the democratization and the modernization of the system. (weiterlesen…)
To know the historical legacy of each important French political formation (FN, UMP, UDF, PS and PC), it is easy to oppose the right and the left political wings. If it is not certain that this distinction still covers a reality today, it is not debatable that it really existed during two centuries and that it always inspires many behaviors. It corresponded amply to the opposition between order and change, between tradition and modernism, conservatism and reform. The concepts of right and left in politics in France come from the French National Assembly where, in August / September 1789, the MPs in favour of the royal veto gathered on the right of the president, opponents with this on the left gathering veto. (weiterlesen…)
Among the numerous acquis communautaires that the countries acceding to the European Union have to accept, the most fundamental –because it is more than structural, it corresponds to the model of the Union– is the reign of the Law. (weiterlesen…)
Romainia is a candidate country expecting to became full member of the EU in 2007, Romania had to take proper solutions not only in terms of reforming the economy and the judiciary and fighting corruption, but also in the area of foreign policy. In that respect, the country should have a better coordination with the European Union in relevant decisions of foreign policy. That position is in accordance with the negotiation chapter on foreign policy, already closed by Romania. But, in the same time, since that year when it becomes full member, Romania has also been NATO candidate country, counting a lot on the support of the United States. (weiterlesen…)
Gypsies, also know as Roma, live in Europe, most of them in former communist countries, many are also scattered in the Mediterranean area. There is not any clear definition of who they really are. Dictionary describes them as: “Dark-skinned Romany-speaking nomads of Hindu origin”. This definition, however, cannot suit them perfectly. Not all of them are dark-skinned and estimates say that only about 4 million of them speak some kind of Romany. The English equivalent “Gypsy” is derived from “Egyptian” but that is not who they can be referred to either. Some remnants of traditional roaming Gypsy culture prevail in the very small continuously declining scale. The Nazis murdered about 500.000 of them and communist era whose well-intentioned tremendously damaging paternalism made them settle down mostly in industrialized towns was not merciful either. In 2004, countries they largely live in joined the European Union. Is the Community able to meet their challenges better than their “homelands”? (weiterlesen…)
If man counted, since the elaboration of the concept of perpetual alliance by Emmanuel Kant, the number of its opponents, the oppositions which have been made in the name of realism, pragmatism or of naturalism, in a word, the claim of the imperative primacy of the strong on the weak, the philosopher would have laugh quite loud in front of such energy spent to contradict a simple principle: the men are able to transcend a basic state of automatic opposition and to establish an alliance of political quintessence in order to enjoy conjointly of their proper –collectives and personal– existences. (weiterlesen…)
Nearly everyone has had or will have hemorrhoids at sometime in their life. A hemorrhoid is nothing above a swollen vein that is in the anus or outside of the anus. Hemorrhoids are just varicose veins of the anal area. One can have hemorrhoids outside of the anus, inside the anus, or a combihernation of both inside and outside the anus. These veins become swollen for a range of reasons, mostly in pregnant women, being overweight, a person that is recurrently lifting weights, people that sit for long time, and constipation or diarrhea. (weiterlesen…)