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Showing posts with label November 29. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Eurosphere agenda: “Commission won’t call Castro a dictator…”French primaries…
The EU executive says that a statement decribing the former Cuban leader as a “hero for many” is balanced and suggests that the use of the word dictator by a commissioner doesn’t reflect its position.
The Trump election gave real legitimacy to Europe’s fascist parties, including France’s Marine Le Pen of the National Front; and in the absence of real, left-win alternatives for populist discontent, the only real opposition to these authoritarians is coming from the hard right parties, which are swinging even further to the right to try to gain back some of their supporters.
The right has chosen François Fillon, now it is up to the left to choose its candidate for the 2017 presidential election.
France’s ruling Socialists scramble to avoid a damaging split over the spring presidential election.
Francois Fillon, having clinched the presidential nomination for the right-wing Republicains party, will now join a far bigger battle for the future of France, the European Union and mainstream politics in the West.
France election: Fillon floors rival in conservative primaries
Francois Fillon takes the conservative ticket in France’s presidential election by a landslide.
EurActiv.com is happy to unveil the Europa building, expected to be opened during the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU, starting 1 January 2017. Photographs of the Brussels location for future EU summits were kindly provided by the presidency.
The centre-right presidential candidate, who just won his party’s primary, wants a “more political” EU that would focus on security and the economy.
The death at the weekend of the revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro saw sharp differences of opinion within EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s cabinet.
There has been quite some heated reaction to Guy Verhofstadt saying he backs the idea of individual Brits somehow being able to retain EU citizenship after Brexit, for a fee (Guardian story here). This builds on the initial proposal of Luxembourg liberal MEP Charles Goerens.
This is a pretty complicated and multi-faceted debate, and I will try to take apart each aspect of it.
A patched deal allows CETA to pass to the next stage. But Belgium gained important concessions. We translate the historic parliamentary speech by the Minister-president of Wallonia in Namur on October 14, 2016.
The Italians will vote on a complex constitutional reform on December 4 that among other things foresees a smaller Senate. However according to observers the referendum is no longer about reform but a vote for or against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the potential consequences of a government crisis for all Europe. What is really at stake in Italy?
As of Monday Denmark has a new centre-right government. A coalition made up of the Liberal Party, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People’s Party has taken over from the minority government of the Liberal Party which had ruled the country up to then. The Danish media are scathingly critical of Prime Minister Løkke Rasmussen’s plans.
After his clear victory in the primaries, François Fillon will be the conservative candidate in France’s presidential election next year. Seen as embodying traditional values, the former prime minister is considered an economic liberal hardliner. Commentators discuss his chances against National Front leader Le Pen should the two face each other in a second round of voting.
Finance ministers from the main eurozone countries will meet IMF negotiators on Friday as Greece warns of new delays in the bailout programme.
Soigneusement évitée durant la primaire de la droite, la question européenne devrait s’inviter dans le débat pour le second tour. Le sujet représente en effet une ligne de fracture majeure entre les deux candidats en lice.
Malta, which will take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 January 2017, has unveiled its logo and priorities, its overarching objective being to restore trust in the Union.
Europeans live almost 7 years more compared to 1990, but this does not necessarily mean that these years are healthy, a new report has found
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EFD Rights Watch: Tahir Elçi remembered…
The killing of Tahir Elçi, the Diyarbakır Bar Association head who was killed in an armed clash in November 2015 in Diyarbakır, is becoming an unsolved murder, his wife has said, as she commemorated the first year of her husband’s death.
Los Angeles Review of Books – Nov 27
THERE ARE MANY THINGS I remember about the night of July 15 in Istanbul. I was with my then girlfriend and her friends when we heard a military coup was taking place. We decided to do the most sensible thing we could think of: buy beer and
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Reuters – Gulsen Solaker – Nov 28, 6:57 AM
ANKARA Turkish authorities are investigating foster families for suspected ties to a failed coup and may remove children from homes if their guardians are found to be supporters of the putsch, a government official said on Monday. The government
Post-coup crackdowns in Turkey are wrong in themselves and risk putting relations with Europe in jeopardyFor the past four months, Turkey’s leader has subjected his country to sweeping political purges – but there are few signs of an end soon. The new announcement that 6,000 teachers will be reinstated in their jobs after having been suspended is a welcome gesture but does little to reduce the level of tension.
The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects has stated that 2,054 engineers and architects have been discharged so far in the 12 Statutory Decrees issued in the State of Emergency.
A former lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen at his home in Pennsylvania with his family and stayed with him for more than four hours
Musician Joan Baez has sent a message of solidarity for the music band “Grup Yorum”, some of whose members were arrested yesterday, and said “I’ll tell your story when I sing”.
Seven of Grup Yorum band members and a worker working at a cultural center construction during raid have been arrested. Gas masks in the cultural center, green shirts and magazines were shown as evidence by judgeship’s decision of arrest.
While our elected representatives are in jail, we have learned that the government has selected a group of people from influential families to launch a new “peace process”.
The state will also try to put those into high positions who are close to the government or available to switch alliances. In other words: divide and rule.
University World News – Nov 18
For approximately 20 years I have been working as an academic and since 1993 I have also been active in the media. I started my journey in journalism at the Milliyet newspaper as a correspondent and continued as an analyst and columnist. I worked…
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New photo from Facebook November 29, 2016 at 03:06PM
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Digitizing old photos with Google’s new app: PhotoScan
Google now wants our oldest photos that remain in old family photo albums. Newly released mobile app PhotoScan helps you to do that. Of course, I have scanned the oldest photos and Google totally owns me now:)
Doesn’t my father look like Escobar? I should be 6 at this time (right)
This is my oldest photo. 13 April 1977. When I am 1.
I should be 4 here. My parents at a younger age…
I and my sister.
In my secondary school graduation. It should be 1996 Summer.
Guess where I am here. One of the girls was my very first crush in life.
My most nationalist moment.
I have had such glasses. I wonder why I did not have a girlfriend.
This is from the 1980 coup days. My father would take me for walks.
I am with my parents again.
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As Post-Truth is the 2016 Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, other “Top Trending Words and Phrases of 2016
Post-Truth is the 2016 Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year
Top Trending Words and Phrases of 2016, Thus Far: Bigly, Brexit & Non-binary
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Istanbul news roundup: “Madame Tussauds to open in Istanbul (@mt_istanbul)
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The Madame Tussauds Museum, home to many wax sculptures of celebrities and one of the most-visited tourist attractions in the world, has opened a new branch in Istanbul
‘Shapeless Mass,’ a solo exhibition featuring ‘incomplete, formless and imperfect’ figures can be seen at Versus Art Project
Istanbul Municipality introduces measure to fight violence against women on streets
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s council has passed a draft bill recommending that public buses drop female passengers off at destinations on demand late at night
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Istanbul: an ancient city in a modern world ISTANBUL – For 3,000 years, the place now known as Istanbul has been at the heart of European history. It’s been colonised by the Greeks, and at .
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