What Borders Mean to Europe. By George Friedman Europe today is a continent of borders.
The second-smallest continent in the world has more than 50 distinct, sovereign nation-states. Many of these are part of the European Union. At the core of the EU project is an effort to reduce the power and significance of these borders without actually abolishing them — in theory, an achievable goal. But history is not kind to theoretical solutions. Today, Europe faces three converging crises that are ultimately about national borders, what they mean and who controls them. Europe's borders have been the foundation of both its political morality and its historical catastrophes. The right of national self-determination has created many distinct nations in Europe. The memory of that carnage led to the creation of the European Union. If the nation-state could not be abolished, however, then at least the borders could lose their significance. The Movement of Muslims in Europe Who controls Europe's external borders?
The Greek Crisis. Gazprom Reviewing Europe Gas Strategy of Targeting End Consumers. OAO Gazprom, the Moscow-based natural gas producer that meets a third of European demand for the fuel, is reviewing its strategy of targeting end customers in the region, according to Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller.
Gazprom may be more selective in pursuing projects it already planned because reaching end users in Europe doesn’t necessarily work, the CEO said today. “The European market isn’t a buyer’s market now,” he said at a conference in St. Petersburg. “Shall we then pay so much attention to creating a value chain from exploration to production to end consumer?”
Gazprom invested along the entire production chain to link Siberian wells with European households as it built trading and marketing operations in Europe to compete with local retail suppliers. Samuel_Lafont : "Vade retro Taubira !"... Rt. Published time: October 28, 2013 09:25 Britsh Prime Minister David Cameron (AFP Photo/Yves Herman) Like the curious incident of the dog that didn’t bark in the nighttime in the classic Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze, the most revealing thing about the latest NSA spying revelations which made world headlines last week was the non-barking of the UK.
While leading politicians of other European countries and officers of the EU itself were keen to express their concern over the latest revelations of US spying on its allies – the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said that US secret services were ‘out of control’ – British Prime Minister David Cameron has only said that he thought that the EU statement on the matter was ‘good and sensible’ and that he agreed with it. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Cameron ‘silently acquiesced” to the statement. At a press conference, Cameron refused to comment about the recent NSA revelations. European Union Think Tanks.
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