The electorate send out a confusing message.
With the dust now settled on the 2009 elections to the European Parliament – the would be second largest exercise of democracy in the world – it is clear what the electorate want out of their leaders in response to the economic crisis, but less clear what they want [...]
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Europe: The European elections
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2009, democracy, election, election results, EU, Europe, European elections, European Parliament, International politics, June 4th, news on June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Burma: The faded saffron dream
Posted in Burma, International, Politics and News, Southeast Asia, tagged ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Buddhist monks, Burma, China, democracy, demonstration, International politics, isolation, Junta, military rule, monks, Myanmar, National League for Democracy, news, NLD, Politics, protest, Rangoon, Southeast Asia, thailand, Than Shwe on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Western leaders have turned away from the troubles of one of the world’s most repressed countries as global recession has gripped the headlines. The world must not be allowed to forget.
More than a year ago, the promise of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s election victory of 1990 seemed soon to be fulfilled. Burma’s streets thronged with monks protesting against the junta’s [...]
Turkey: Ataturk’s unlikely heirs
Posted in Europe, International, Politics and News, tagged accession, AKP, constitution, constitutional court, court, democracy, EU, Europe, headscarves, International politics, Islam, Islamist, judgement, judges, Justice and Development, Kemal Ataturk, muslim, news, Politics, secular, secularism, Turkey on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The inheritors of Kemal Ataturk’s secular republic appear not to be Istanbul’s urban elite or Turkey’s overbearing army, but rather the Islamist AKP.
On Wednesday Turkey’s constitutional court, the highest in the land, ruled by a razor thin majority of six to five that the party of government, Justice and Development (the AKP) was not [...]
