voices-of-europe

FOCUS , our recent and older newsletters; current affairs across all our themes

• Focus September 2010, a few impressions from French internal politics and some unpleasantness with Brussels attitudes

• Focus june 2008 “Non ingrassare Europe”, don’t expand Europe, our strength is in internal cohesion

• Focus december 2007

EUROPE, the EUROPEAN UNION and their CHALLENGES Enlargement; the Turkish problem ; Europe’s  positioning in other continents, its “rayonnement

Our traditions, our history

• Italy : Il Palio di Hassoun, Siena 2010
• Nederland:  Soestdijk- Peking-Soestdijk

Our institutions

• Elections for the Euro-Parliament; exemple a creuser pour les elections futures
• Linkage councillors for a better European “Rayonnement”

Enlargement, the peculiar case of Turkey

• The particular case of Turkey
• Carnaval of romantic diplomacy december 2004
• Musings on the old Ankara fortress
• partenariat avec la Turquie
• avertissement aux negociateurs turcs (F)
• Disinformazione  -con Sandro Magister- (the Pope’s visit to Turkey) (I)
• How the international press reported on the Pope’s visit to Turkey (E)
• rejeter trois virus Turcs (assainir notre grammaire) (F)
• Turkeys increased « asset value »  (E)
• His Exc Davutoglu speaks with a twisted tongue (E)
• Carnaval de diplomatie romantique,  (F)
• criteres de Copenhaguen, their lack of  validity F)
• La Turquie avec nous. Gerard Hannezo (“dans la maniere de Maurice Allais”)
• Sept ans apres Raspail  (Voix des Francais)
• How a Dutch political party did its homework on Turkey
• Resisting charming Minister Davutoglu,
• Felipe Gonzalez: “we shall honor the commitments to Turkey”
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• Westerwelle emotional on Turkey and other things

MIGRATION

• study migration before sermonizingBook review: Caldwell on Migration in Europe
  
• Migration massive,la recherche d’alternatives (F)
  
• Alternatives to mass migration
• The voice of Malta
• A glance at the Roman Curia
• eveques des deux cotes de l’Atlantique (F)

• Bishops on two sides of the Atlantic
• UNIAPAC congress Buenos Aires : appeal to christian employers

ISLAM

• the need for dialogue
• Muhammad writes to Muqavqas
• two roads (deux pistes) (F)
• “Gedogen” a new Dutch trade mark
• an explanation to our muslim neighbour
• il Palio di Hassoun, Siena 2010 (It)
  

ISSUES OF RELIGION; THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

• a glance at the Roman Curia
• Confucius attendait-il Jesus-Christ?

CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH OTHER CONTINENTS

• China
  • A thought of Matteo Ricci
  • China and Europe, two old trees
  • Confucius attendait-il Jesus Christ ? (book by Xavier Walter)
  • Teilhard de Chardin en Chine (also parallels found by Gerard Hannezo)
  • Gerard Hannezo  pensees sur Teilhard de Chardin
• Indonesia
  • Pavane for a Javanese princess
• Turkey (see above)

ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, CLIMATE CHANGE

Linkage Councillors for greater European “rayonnement”

A clean car between Paris and Peking