After several posts, I tried to move on from the European Burqa Ban issue, and the NY Times’ coverage of it, but Martha Nussbaum’s eloquent explanation of John Locke’s and Roger Williams’s liberal conceptions of religious freedom and equally eloquent deconstruction of the most common arguments for such bans – all of which have been [...]
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Here is a link to Roger Cohen’s op-ed in Tuesday’s NY Times on European Solidarity or lack thereof. Here are a few remarks: I think that while reading the complaints about Greece’s overly generous welfare state that currently abound in the Anglophone and German media (though I am not saying that this is all there is to [...] I sincerely apologize to my distinguished readership (and to all Belgians) for the extremely low-brow nature of the link in this post, it is so insidious that I am ashamed of it by the sheer fact that it is conducted in the language I call my own, all I can really say is UGH! Nonetheless, [...] Democracy in action? There seem to be two standard pro-ban responses to the mainstream media’s near across the board condemnation of the Swiss vote (as I pointed out in my last post responses from the governing parties in France and Germany were slightly more nuanced). These responses go something along the lines of : 1. [...] So the deal has been done (behind closed doors of course!) on who will fill the role of the new European Council President. Merkel and Sarkozy finally decided that Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy is their man. Van Rompuy is credited with being a strong behind the scenes negotiator, and with managing to not let Belgium [...] So the second time around the Irish have approved the Lisbon treaty by a rather wide margin – 67.1% voted yes, while 32.9% voted no, with a turnout of 58%. The pro-Europe camp has quite a few things to be pleased about in this election. For one they successfully countered the disinformation campaign that killed [...] French police today raided and evicted hundreds of refugees from the camp near Calais known as “The Jungle”. |
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