The Belarusian crisis reveals in filigree all the limits of the European Union's diplomacy against Russia, an unwavering supporter of Alexander Lukashenko. It is up to the European Union to become a power and no longer a partner sometimes heard.
The bloody clashes between Israel and Palestine as each decide to display a determined dominance highlight the inertia of international organizations in resolving deep opposition but also reveal the existence of diplomatic rivalries worthy of the Cold War.
By seizing on the security issue, French President Macron intends to reassure his citizens about his ability to confront the realities it imposes without blur. But wouldn't the operation be as much about electoralism as it is about opportunity?
As regional elections approach, the definition of macrocosm is once again being raised. A political philosophy in its own right or how it works dedicated to the survival of a party and its leader, the question remains.
The Biden Administration by recognizing the Armenian Genocide expresses the determination of the world's strongest power to lead in international diplomacy. But will this be followed by other decisions that will strengthen or damage the credibility of the U.S.?
The announced creation of a European football Super League competing with the Champions League is shaking up a UEFA hostage of the excessive professionalization of football which has become a part of the world economy.
The National School of Administration, replaced by the Institute of Public Service, has long focused on a set of criticisms aimed at denouncing laureates accused of forming an elitist system, a stigma producing anguish fueled by societal changes.
Accused of authoritarianism in his handling of the health crisis, French President Macron is facing a growing wave of irritation regarding the methods used. But doesn't the Constitution lend itself to a peremptory and solitary exercise of power?
As Russia knocks on the door of the European Union by offering a precious COViD-19 vaccine, the serum offers the Russian President Vladimir Putin the opportunity to re-enter the European diplomatic game. Not without an ironic malice.
French and Europeans are again subjected to an almost disturbing silence of constraints and restrictions imposed by the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic, the unseen enemy that strongarmed Europe with the fierceness of a seasoned warrior.
The Syrian crisis is entering its eleventh year. Without the shadow of a political or diplomatic solution, it reveals above all the culpable inertia and procrastination of Western nations for the benefit of the Syrian regime and Vladimir Putin.
The meeting between Iranian Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani and Pope Francis laid the groundwork for a new dialogue between the two religions, not to the displeasure of marginalized Islamist extremists, like Reda Kriket, by the interview of the two religious dignitaries.
The Intercept has published an exclusive investigation revealing how Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater, aided a plot to move U.S.-made gunships, weapons, and other military equipment from Jordan to a renegade commander fighting for control of war-torn Libya.
French President Emmanuel Macron, facing a tough reelection, is gambling on politicizing the coronavirus pandemic by exceeding the nation’s health status, integrating inflated vaccination numbers into its balance sheet could thus be a cornerstone of its programme.
French Minster for Higher Education Frédérique Vidal ignited a debate on Islamo-leftism, which alleges a political alliance between leftist and Islamists at the University, exposing President Emmanuel Macron to a controversy carrying high political risks. Explanations.
Operation Barkhane, initiated by former President François Hollande, with the goal of curbing radical Islamicmilitias in Northern Africa, has continue for eight years. The billion euro annual debt, coupled with the pandemic has made the operation expendable.
While the entire planet is struggling in a frantic race to obtain life-saving vaccines as soon as possible, Burma is facing the military junta which seized power through a coup d'état fomented for several months.
The strategy of mass vaccination undertaken by the European Union exposes Brussels to consequences which are as glorious as they are catastrophic as the European Commission knows that any failure could call into question the principle of common governance.
Supporters of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader and Putin nemesis, who was immediately jailed after returning to Moscow after recuperating from poisoning, have taken to the streets in record number protesting the treatment and demanding his release.
If new unearthed archival documents eventually confirm the role of France in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda throughout 1994, the revelations will confirm the decline of France’s diplomatic influence on an international scale.
The invasion of the Capitol, temple of American democracy, reveals the divide that divides American society but also the fringe of the population distraught by fantasized threats that President Trump has organized out of conviction with cynicism and out of personal ambition.
The cascading health crisis throughout Europe has pushed French President Emmanuel Macron to opt for drastic measures contested by many local elected officials at the risk of cutting itself off from the territories is today very real.
If Brexit has long occupied the minds of Europeans, it has also obscured the difficulties and misunderstandings between Brussels and certain Eastern European countries unwilling to respect the fundamental principles of the Union.
States and Governments, having become increasingly vulnerable and dependent, are investing in pharmaceutical laboratories who are empowered with a saving role that feeds their global omnipotence, to the point of drawing a geostrategy and health geopolitics.
The health imperatives presented as necessary by the Government have pushed the latter to prolong the closure of cultural spaces. And the decision to question the future of a fragile sector and its public funding.
To end the saga of Brexit, British Prime Minster Boris Johnson, by accepting the European Union's conditions on the settlement of the Northern Irish question, paved the way for a relaxation of the hard-lined post-Brexit negotiations.
The recent demonstrations organized in Paris were once again punctuated by police violence which illustrate the excesses of an institution overtaken by the evolutions of a society where freedom of expression and social unrest come together. Explanations
The second wave of the coronavirus has captured France, with confinements, weariness, anger, and the testing of everyone's capacity for resilience, as each day the awareness of new society norms inclusive of the unwelcomed guest become clearer.
If Joe Biden's victory seals Donald Trump's departure from the White House, it does not necessarily extinguish populist fever. As Americas remains divided, the resurgence of the populist movement, or the red fever, continues to grow.
The 2020 Election has become the center of the world’s media with all eyes focused on the outcome one thing is certain: the power of the United States, to dictate world trade is at stake.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced, in a televised address to the nation, on October 30, they would return to a second shutdown as the expected second wave of the coronavirus had spiked across the country.
Diplomatic relations between France and Turkey have, over the past week, deteriorated as civil and religious power which guide governments and peoples, intertwine each intensifying attempts to press their secular and often inciting agenda into the mainstream.
While many questions arise after the assassination of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, by a fanaticized adolescent, the question of the intellectual permeability of certain individuals in a global context of ignorance and psychological manipulation also emerges.
After a small respite France, like other nations affected by COVID-19, confinements may once again become the norm as health security and economic imperatives, are faced with a difficult dilemma that remains unanswered. Explanations.
The death toll from "Storm Alex," the apocalyptic rains which hit the south-east region of France triggering raging torrents, massive mudslides and caused entire sections of the towns along the Vesubie River to disappear, is still unknown.
President Trump has proven to be faithful to his voters by nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett, an accomplished jurist, legal scholar, and author, as the new Supreme Court justice, replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The arrival of a second wave becomes more certain each day, it will contribute to increasing an already violent observation in which the weaknesses of health systems and the slowness of integration of realities coexist. environmental and omnipotence guilty of globalized flows.
The protest that has raged for months in Belarus highlights the bankruptcy of an obsolete political system but also all the diplomatic power and influence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the last supporter of 'Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian leader.
French President Emmanuel Macron, facing the identical economic and social consequences prompted by the coronavirus pandemic which every developed nation is currently experiencing, has proposed a $118 billion stimulus plan to relaunch the French economy.
President Trump's Senior Adviser Eric Kushner and Interim US Special Representative for Iran, Elliott Abrams, were in Israel Sunday and are flying together to the UAE on an Israel ELAL flight, which will fly over Saudi Arabia.
At the crossroads of the Middle East, plagued by corruption and carelessness, Lebanon now appears on the brink of civil war. If solutions exist to recover the country, they can only be realized through the international community.
Alexei Navalny, leader of Russia of the Future Party and Vladimir Putin critic, arrived in Berlin for intensive medical treatment after the Russian government who had initially refused to allow him to leave yielded to pressure from world leaders.
The economic recovery plan intended to revitalize the European Union destabilized by the Covid-19 crisis has revealed the strong influence of the Franco-German merger as the two leading economies in the Euro Zone, prepare to lead the future.
France and Germany, with the United Kingdom's EU resignation, have risen in influence, which assisted in paving the way toward the approval of the economic recovery plan marking a fundamental step in the process of European construction.
The risks of the Covid-19 epidemic returning suggested by the scientific community reveal the inability of a population to show common sense while concealing the presence of a virus which has become a constituent element of everyday life.
The resignation of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the appointment of Jean Castex tacitly opens the electoral campaign for President Emmanuel Macron which effectively ends of the old world, general interest and ushers in personal ambition.
The low turnout in the second round of municipal elections confirms the disaffection of the electorate for political ballots but reveals a crisis of confidence surfacing throughout the democracy of a country still attached to its libertarian history.
In an interview released by Israel Hayom Wednesday, June 24, 2020, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said that the application of Israeli sovereignty is expected soon and will be approved by the Trump administration.
As escalating police violence, brutality and bullying raise serious questions regarding their mission, the possibility of reforming the National Police, which is sweeping the globe, presents a real danger of suppression and submission under the republican universalism.
Demonstrations aimed at denouncing police violence and the gangrene of racism have reached a legitimate saturation of the populations in the face of these acts. Addressing the physical violence without tackling the root allows the evil to regrow.
The gradual end of containment is causing the world's populations to question the relevance of the means deployed to fight the virus. Legitimate or not, the question invites world leaders to explain themselves. Not without risk.
The Coronavirus has spawned many psychological phenomenon’s, respected pundits venturing into territories unknown reading the tea leaves of the times, based on seasons of yesteryear, new leaders, soothsayers and gurus presenting miracles and peace to a frightened population.
Between resumption of economic activity and reopening of borders, the world seems to have resumed the mode of operation that prevailed pre-pandemic, pondering only the relevance of growth and submission of man to economic laws.
Among the first observations linked to the health crisis of COVID-19, the acceleration of political time. While in France the presidential election will not take place until May 2022, the electoral campaign could suddenly gain unexpected speed. Explanations.
The French government has announced the restrictions, which locked down 67 million people, are nearing the end of confinement, it also raises questions about what the French expect in the aftermath of the health crisis.
The handling of the COVID-19 crisis by President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and the regional governments arouses both controversy and criticism each raising questions regarding the human drama that has reached a boiling point.
For hiding the appearance and the danger of the coronavirus in the first hours of its spread, the Chinese regime confirmed that it was indeed a dictatorship whose modern appearances masked the bases of the regime: authority, mistrust and worship of secrecy.
Faced with the need to limit individual and collective freedoms to combat the COVID-19, contemporary democracies are torn between defending libertarian achievements and castrating health imperatives. Which one will eventually take over the other?
As the current health crisis saturate French hospitals, it highlights the many shortcomings of a health system too long subservient to the doxa, or popular opinion, of economic austerity and the world healthcare system is exposed as grossly inadequate.
Now a global phenomenon, the coronavirus epidemic could turn into a trap for White House contenders. Viewed from Europe, and from France in particular, because anything said, or judgment will affect the world economy. Whatever...
The poverty of French political discourse raises questions about the capacity of our society to renew itself and to emerge from a facility that borders on passivity and institutionalized mediocrity and evolve into a thriving multicultural mecca.
The appearance and spread of the coronavirus worldwide has also raised questions about the origins of the virus and in particular the role of global warming and globalization as China now denies the responsibility for the outbreak.
The sexual revelations that prompted Benjamin Griveaux to withdraw his candidacy for municipal elections in Paris next March also offers the President of the Republic the opportunity to dismiss a man convinced of his destiny at no cost. Explanations.
President Trump boldly announced his groundbreaking peace proposal at a White House press conference together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at which he spoke of a division of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank).
The final departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union does not seem to have upset the other member countries, all aware of the strengths and advantages of the Union despite its shortcomings.
France’s imposed pension reform, which has become a pivotal election issue that will determine the candidate’s chances of political success, has the political structure slowly understanding imposed change will backfire with the people happy to change leadership.
The increase in police violence raises questions about the original missions of law enforcement officials supposed to protect populations and ensure republican order. But the latter would not have become an excuse for all the drifts therefore legitimized. Explanations.
The feared Iranian response to the targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran's Quds Force, has passed with hardly a whimper. Dozens of missiles were fired at an America base in Iraq with no casualties.
By assassinating one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Donald Trump takes the risk of an uncontrollable military and diplomatic escalation. Yet the presidential plan may be different. Let's take a closer look.
After the revelation of his professional situation, the High Commissioner for Pensions, Jean Paul Delevoye had to admit the reality hither to hidden. But let us ensure that the surveillance of the elites is not fueled by social jealousy.
REAL STEEL, from DreamWorks SKG and Executive Producers Steven Spielberg and Bob Zemeckis, brings to the screen a futuristic, fast action, emotional story of hope and triumph of the human spirit.
Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, along with Special Agents in Charge from FBI and ATF, announced the serial bomber terrorizing the greater Texas city for three weeks had detonated explosive devices as they approached his vehicle killing himself.
President Donald Trump, at the invitation of Speaker of the House, Democratic Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, will deliver the 2019 State of the Union Address on February 5, 2019 which will be attended by both members of Congress.
William Eubank, director of the upcoming Sci-Fi film, "The Signal," a mystery thriller that takes a story that has fascinated for generations, ups the game and walks away with a winner, recently came to New York to promote the film.
Would not the increase in world military spending be the expression of an underlying fear brought on by the upheavals of globalization? Unless humanity returns to instinctive defense reflexes that refer to the dark hours of history.
Whitney Houston, the multi-Grammy Award winning superstar, has been found dead in her room at the exclusive Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.
Upper Manhattanites have faced an unprecedented week with three major unrelated crisis' that tested emergency services and first responders and have even the most resilient New Yorker’s, known for their steely nerves, feeling somewhat jittery.
The DOW closed the week of June 27, 2014, slightly stronger with minimal gains over the week and only peaked out of a disastrous week long slide with Tuesday's two hour bullish run. World Markets from Japan to London reflected the same pendulum swing.
Now that the Russian collusion story has lost its captivating and enticing glow, the left's narrative du jour is that anyone expressing a contrary opinion is a racist. It is so exhausting! What is a racist, anyway?
Cabo San Lucas – Health and wellness reign at Capella Pedregal which is home to Auriga spa, regarded as one of the top of its ilk globally, with praise coming from prestigious news outlets such as Travel + Leisure and TripAdvisor which named Auriga as one of “The World’s Greatest Hotel Spas.”
The entertainment industry's biggest night adjusted after an awards season which was anything but usual and now the 93rd Academy Awards are finally upon us and Haute-Lifestyle.com is in the virtual Winner's Room providing live updates.
The September elections in Israel were not much different than the April elections. Each a statistical tie with neither Benny nor Benjamin willing to join forces so it led to this election which was the essentially same result.
Intermittent fasting, or IF, is an eating pattern that has grown in popularity over the last few years. Intermittent fasting isn’t a diet as such; in theory, followers can eat whatever they desire, and during the eating windows.
New COVID-19 infections have fallen 45% in the U.S. and 30% globally in the past three weeks, according to the Daily Mail, millions are getting vaccinated, hospitalizations have fallen 26% since they peaked in mid-January.
War for the Planet of the Apes, from 20th Century Fox, presents the ultimate battle of good versus evil as the world has undergone a radical culling and survivors are left to choose loyalty to mankind, war or ape.
