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By Clara Bauman Click here to read the 2020 April edition of Europe Diplomatic Magazine
NICOLAS SARKOZY Patience. Persistence. Power
Neuilly-sur-Seine, 29 April, 1983… In the City Hall of this wealthy, residential suburb just west of Paris, votes are being counted for the election of the new mayor. Nicolas Sarkozy is eager to find out…
THE PORT OF ANTWERP BECOMING EUROPE’S MAIN ENTRY POINT FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS
The city on the brink of becoming a narco-state With 61.8 metric tons of cocaine and 504 kilograms of marijuana seized in 2019, the Port of Antwerp has produced an increase of violence in Belgium’s…
DIPLOMACY : A SKILL TO ACQUIRE
Training diplomats for a fractured world Diplomacy, according to my Chambers Dictionary, is “the art of negotiation, especially in relations between states”. However, my rather more elderly Walker’s Dictionary from 1850, has a very different…
FRIENDS, ENEMIES AND LOOPHOLES Military proliferation through the back door
PART ONE “Qui desiderat pacem, praeperat bellum,” wrote the fourth century Roman military writer Flavius Vegetius Renatus (normally remembered simply as Vegetius). It means, as if you didn’t know, “Let he (or she) who desires…
EU SATCEN: Geospatial intelligence at the service of EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
Supporting humanitarian aid missions. Assessing the damage caused by a flood or an earthquake. Detecting the presence of military and paramilitary troops. Monitoring national borders. Surveilling the coast for piracy, drug traffick- ing, human smuggling….
NETWORK DEFRAUDING AT LEAST €5 MILLION DISMANTLED IN PORTUGAL
The Fiscal Action Unit of the Portuguese National Republican Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana) under the direction of the Central Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out operation Netto Price which aimed to dismantle a transnational network obtaining…
WE OUGHT TO BE GIANTS Putin tries to make Chekhov’s words come true by force
The new ICBM missile to replace the Soviet-era Voevoda © mil.ru There’s no doubt, according to expert observers, that Russia’s current military capacity is far ahead of what it was just a decade ago. Given…
THE SIM HIGHJACKERS: How criminals are stealing millions by highjacking phone numbers
SIM swappers arrested by Spain, Austria and Romania as police gears up against this growing threat It is a common story: the signal bars disappears from their mobile phones, they call the phone number –…
WHAT THE DEPARTURE OF BRITAIN MEANS FOR THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S POLITICAL MIX
I was in Strasbourg at the exact moment Britain ceased to be part of the European Union. I wasn’t there because of the EU but because of the Council of Europe, that much-maligned and (in…
THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS REFUSES TO RAISE THE CASES OF TWO PRO LIFE NURSES IN THEIR APPEAL AGAINST SWEDEN
On the 14 June 2017 two Swedish midwives, Ellinor Grimmark and Linda Steen, filed complaints against Sweden for violations of their freedom of conscience and religion to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg….
EIT RAWMATERIALS: ADVANCED TRAINING FOR MINING INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
Lifelong learning in real mining conditions Practical training and learning over the mining value chain are among the key components of lifelong knowledge building of mining experts and recognised as a challenge in the development…
VENTURI MONACO, 20 years of innovation
A former Executive at General Motors in the UK who had trained as an automobile engineer once told me that if he had his time over, he would have trained as an electrician. Malcolm Harbour…
JOAQUIN SOROLLA Spanish Master of light
Joaquín Sorolla, Boats. Valence beach, circa 1909, oil on canva, 51,4 x 84,8 cm Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico © Studio Sébert photographes Hôtel de Caumont I30 April – 11 October 2020 In 2020, the Hôtel…
NEWS IN BRIEF
FOUR METRES UNDERGROUND: ILLEGAL CIGARETTE FACTORY UNCOVERED IN A BUNKER IN SPAIN On 13 and 14 February 2020, the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) dismantled an organised crime group involved in illegal cigarette manufacturing and…