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“Making Europe Right”

by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Berlin (Germany) | 10 March 2019

French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to the citizens of Europe a few days ago. There was an urgent need for action. And indeed, he is right, because we are faced with urgent questions: do we want our future to be determined by the strategic decisions of China or the United States, or do we (…)

“Only fundamentalist Islamists can defeat Jihadism”

by Reuel Marc Gerecht

22 November 2005

What are the interests of the United States in encouraging democracy in the Middle East? It would be good for the Muslims to decide by themselves what their future will be. To debate together, to discuss, to shout at themselves...is the only way to undermine and destroy Jihad. . The liberal and (…)

“The wall protects us from terror effectively”

by Isaac Herzog

12 October 2005

The Gaza settlers, still living in hotels or tents, are doing it for political reasons. Their purpose is to pressure the government. We’re implementing the carrot-and-stick policy: we negotiate with them and at the same time we tell them they’ll have to defray the costs if they don’t want to (…)

“We didn’t get the majority of the population”

by Christian Wulff

3 October 2005

People don’t want to go on like this, they want a change, that’s why the CDU-CSU is 440 000 votes ahead of the red-greens. However, the fear of changing was too strong and that’s why a larger number than what was expected voted for the left. The red-greens along with the PDS are heading the (…)

“Bush policy is not unilateral, but one-dimensional”

by Madeleine K. Albright

14 September 2005

Things happen in Iraq completely different from what the president expected: no weapons of mass destruction were found, we were not welcomed as liberators, oil does not run as expected, the situation has turned more difficult. Women’s rights have diminished and links with Iran are much closer. (…)

“Iraqi Democracy Threatens Its Neighbors”

by Bernard Lewis

30 June 2005

Elections were successful but they are only a stage. No party was strong enough to make up a government - a good sign that has been recorded in the democratic process for reaching a compromise. The European dogma was that democracy had no place in Iraq. The Middle East was afraid that it worked. (…)

“In My Opinion, the world will not collapse”

by Joschka Fischer

17 June 2005

In my new book, Le retour de l’Histoire, I try to understand what began with the end of the Cold War. It was not only the end of the Yalta system but also the end of the State system whose modern version appeared in Europe in 1648. That was what got my interest. I also added my impressions, (…)

"A War in which the Opponent is Ignored"

by Aftab Khan Sherpao

15 June 2005

Twenty people lost their lives in Islamabad on May 27 as a result of an attack carried out during a religious demonstration that assembled thousands of people. You can not control everyone. From work carried out by our services since September 11, 2001, it is worthy to highlight that numerous (…)

“We’re on board the Same Boat”

by Ali Gomaa

6 June 2005

The Muslim world expects that the new Pope will continue his predecessor’s tolerance and the line he had opened up to the Islam. One can speak of renovation of religious practices as being very important in the world in which we live. Studies have shown that what is being taught in Germany (…)

“There Will Be a Third Intifada”

by Ehud Barak

6 June 2005

The withdrawal is an important step in the right direction, but it is timorous. It must be supported, but it can be said that and clearly that it won’t solve anything: it is only the first page of a book that has numbers of chapters, some of which will be mortal. After that withdrawal, it will (…)

"For me, May 8 was a big relief"

by Wojciech Jaruzelski

11 May 2005

I will be one of four heads of state present who is also a veteran of that war. Vladimir V. Putin personally invited me and, in spite of criticisms, I will go to Moscow. I spoke about it with President Kwasniewski. As a veteran of the Polish army and as a commander of a company deployed in Elba (…)

"Europe is Today in a Miserable Status"

by Jürgen Habermas

9 May 2005

In my opinion, the questionable consequences of the invasion on Iraq, which violate the right of the peoples, have made the former supporters of the war to think about them. Obviously, I hope that a beginning of a liberal regime is being established, but the positive points are not enough at (…)

“Turkey Must Acknowledge the Genocide”

by Vartan Oskanian

3 May 2005

Ninety years ago, on April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Turkey started the genocide of the Armenian. For political reasons, a state had decided to exterminate a whole people. The Turkish tried to get rid of the Armenian issue, availing themselves of the chaos caused by World War I. One million and a (…)