Diplomatik Gözlem

GREECE’S SCANDALOUS RECORD

Greek banks cheat Europe again

As files come up on the Greek finance institution Proton Bank, new details emerge. Athens first took European funds with false statistics for projects which did not exist. It then lived the good life with these funds, until it went bankrupt. Later Athens was saved through further European credit. Then Europe had to extend new loans to Greece...

13.01.2012

DISTRUST GROWING IN GREECE

What can a country do where the individual does not trust society and society does not trust the state?

2012 will be the fourth consecutive year of economic stagnation for Greece. Greece has seen its economy shrink by 5.5 percent in 2011. Unemployment continues to grow. Should Prime Minister Papademos not take the reins in the management of the country’s economy, Greece m...

13.01.2012

THE CONJECTURE IS CHANGING!

A new point of balance begins to form in the global balance

The global equation is taking on a new structure. 2012 seems set to host a process which will produce a new point of balance in the global equation. Of course every year is a continuation of those that came before. Every year’s developments in the economy and politics are an amalgamation of their predecessors. Ho...

13.01.2012

HAS “SPRING” COME TO RUSSIA?

Reports from Russia indicate that the period before elections is critical

There are large mass demonstrations being held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Between the presidential office in the Kremlin and Putin stand not only the elections in March but also internal political tensions which have become acute with demonstrations.

To compare Russia to Tunisia, Egypt or ...

13.01.2012

THE NEXT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BE A “WORLD WAR”

Unless Assad goes on exile…

Tensions are running very high in the Middle East. The traditional Israeli-Palestinian problem aside, risk is growing over the issues of Syria and Iran. Internal political balances are yet to stabilise in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. In Iraq uncertainty dominates the post-US era. Everything is bad and could take a turn for the worse. For that reas...

13.01.2012

2012 WILL BE THE CRITICAL THRESHOLD FOR THE EU

The European Union Experienced Many Crises in 2011. More will come.

2011 has not been a happy year for Europe or the European Union. However, at the end of 2012 Europeans may look back on 2011 as a good year. The Union was unable to solve any of its problems in 2011. 2012 does not look hopeful either.

Looking at the present circumstances of the European Union, the ...

13.01.2012

CHINA’S 2012 HOROSCOPE FEATURES ENERGY

The USA will be more oriented towards the Pacific. Tensions possible in US-Chinese relations.

The global crisis is great and effective. It will be even greater and more effective this year. Global competition will be very tough. Energy sources will continue to diminish. When one mentions energy, attention turns immediately to the Middle East and North Africa. However thin...

13.01.2012

GOOD BYE HAVEL

Legendary Czech leader Vaclav Havel dies at 75

Vaclav Havel was present when the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia ended with the velvet revolution. Vaclav Havel was also present at the peaceful partition of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Vaclav Havel was the first president of his country to be elected democratically.

Vaclav Havel achieved m...

13.01.2012

NEW PERIOD IN IRAQ BEGINS AMIDST PROBLEMS

Reckoning might begin after the departure of US forces from Iraq

Tensions have flared up sooner than expected in Iraq following the withdrawal of US forces. Sectarian tensions have always been the case in Iraq. But no one expected it to rise to the level of fighting in a matter of days.

The struggle of the USA to occupy Iraq lasted approximately ten years. Ten years...

13.01.2012

HUMAN RIGHTS

On the 10^th of December Human Rights Day tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Czech Republic  and around the world to protest human rights violations. On the 10^th of December which is the anniversary of the ratification of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights human rights activists in Prague who wanted to draw the atte...

13.01.2012

WAR IN IRAQ

Was America’s Occupation of Iraq Worth it All?

The 20^th of March, 2003. The Iraq War began. On the 15^th of December 2011 the Iraq War officially ended. However the battle against the devastation of the war begins fresh for Iraqis. American soldiers were back home before Christmas. They came together with their loved ones and it was a great Christmas ...

13.01.2012

SARKOZY, THE BIG BROTHER

Those Who Do Not Recognise France’s Genocide Law Will Do So by Force

At a general session of the French Parliament on the 22^nd of December 2011, with the participation of 70 out of 577 members of parliament the proposed legislation making it a crime to deny the “Armenian genocide” was accepted. The ratification of the legislation requires a vote in Senate. Acco...

13.01.2012

FROM STABILITY TO INSTABILITY

The Euro? The Eurozone? Which will go first?

Perhaps life was better ten years ago, perhaps it was not. However a development that took place ten years ago significantly changed the lives of many people, hundreds of millions of them. Good and bad may alter from person to person, but it is certain that change took place ten years ago and that the following decade was its p...

13.01.2012

BEING HOPEFUL FOR LIBYA!

Circumstances fragile in Libya Following the Revolution

In Libya Gaddafi is dead. His republic has collapsed. A new administration has been set up. However Libya needs a long time for its normalisation process. Furthermore the wounds of the civil war will take a long time to heal in Libya.

The entire Middle East and North Africa is being rocked with revolutions. The...

13.01.2012

THE LONGEST SPRING CONTINUES

The Arab Spring is not over

The political tension in the Arab geography does not fall. The Arab Spring which has continued from 2011 to 2012 seems set to intensify. However, there is here an important detail. “Spring” may be experienced in Arab countries which have not yet been affected by it and those countries which have already experienced it might face a revolution wi...

13.01.2012