Pour réussir une bonne campagne politique, il faut de bonnes idées, et Silvio Berlusconi n'en manque décidément pas ! Pour séduire son public, Il Cavaliere n'a pas hésité à recruter les plus jolies dames du pays pour promouvoir son parti Forza Italia... Et force est de constater que niveau casting, Silvio a plutôt bon oeil!

Les responsables politiques actuels seront-ils un jour convoqués par leurs enfants et petits-enfants devant un tribunal planétaire ? L’opti-pessimisme de la jeune génération après Copenhague.
Nous, génération des 20-30 ans, pouvions nous dire paradoxalement « Vive la crise ! ». Vive cette crise, économique et écologique (mais aussi sociale, éthique, politique), qui allait obliger nos décideurs, en charge de gérer le présent et de préparer l’avenir, à prendre pleinement conscience de leurs immenses et décisives responsabilités, et à agir en conséquence.

When Iceland went bankrupt, this was seen as positive news for Europe. European politicians told their citizens that this example shows how essential European integration really is. This would never happen in one of the EU member states. Iceland desperately wants to become a member state soon to ensure its economical stability.

La Bulgarie se rallie au projet de construction d’un système de défense antimissile américain. L’ancien Premier ministre, Sergueï Stanichev, profite d’une conférence de presse à Blagoevgrad pour demander au gouvernement des éclaircissements sur le sujet. Nikolaï Mladenov, ministre des Affaires étrangères et Aniou Anguelov, ministre de la Défense répondent en disant qu’il n’y a eu aucune négociation sur ce sujet et que tout cela est une question de spéculations.

And the talk about the Greek economy continues but it seems that nobody cares to listen the Greek prime minister or the Greek citizens, something that makes you wonder what really is going on with the Euro and the European economy in general. The Greek people who despite all the trash publications the last two months are very aware of what’s going on and they are willing to do something about it. They don’t expect the Europeans to bail Greece out. What they try to say - and it seems nobody wants to hear - is that what is missing is the political support.

Les Grecs, leur déficit budgétaire et l'euro ont été placés au coeur des débats par les parties qui avaient intérêt à en parler. Mais pas de panique - le remède à la crise existe déjà. Les Grecs l'ont inventé eux-mêmes: c'est la démocratie. / The Greeks, their budget deficit and the euro have been raised by interested parties to talk about. But no panic - the cure for the crisis already exists. The Greeks invented it themselves: It is democracy.
Deutsche Seite: Demokratie ist das Rezept gegen die Krise

Like Aesop´s description of tongue to his master and banquet guests, Britain has been the best and the worst of things. From the Middle Ages, and centuries before the French Revolution, the Bill of Rights, Habeas Corpus and other early signs of civil rights were introduced there. Its Parliament became a shining light, its police considered a model, its politicians and diplomats the epitome of gentlemanly behaviour, and even its secret service was reluctant to be overzealous, alleging that “gentlemen do not read each other’s letters”. We should not forget that George Orwell wrote “1984”, that the Empire pioneered slavery and all its horrors. In recent years, the good things are rather harder to spot, but the bad ones have grown to epidemic proportions...

In the past few months, a “new” acronym has been increasingly blossoming in the Anglo-Saxon press: “PIIGS”, in a friendly reference to the economies of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain! The expression is revealing of the level of hatred some Anglo-Saxons in the field of finance and economy have for the European Union. The aim is clearly to vex and demean. These people obviously don’t control themselves anymore! It is not by coincidence that they invented the word in 2008, year when the shining economic models they were selling throughout the world were smashed into pieces...

Did you already know that this is the European year to combat poverty and social exclusion? Almost eighty million European citizens suffer from this. The most important goals of this European year are to make citizens more aware of this problem and to build political will within the EU and the member states to combat poverty and social exclusion.*
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Actuellement, parmi les eurodéputés italiens condamnés siégeant au Parlement européen, nous trouvons: Vito Bonsignore (PPE) condamné à deux ans de prison pour tentative de corruption  - Mario Borghezio (ELD) reconnu coupable d'incendie criminel et condamné à 2 mois et 20 jours de prison, transposés en une amende de 3.040 Euros - Aldo Patriciello (PPE), condamnés à quatre mois de prison pour financement illégal... Mais ce n'est pas tout car il n’y a pas que des Italiens.!
Andrea D’Ambra, militant italien qui avait déjà lancé une pétition pour abolir le coût des recharges GSM en Italie, lance cette fois une campagne pour dire stop aux élus qui ont des antécédents judiciaires. Une problématique qui concerne tous les Européens.

One of the places I visited these last few weeks I was away it was London and the first thing that impressed me after nearly eight years I hadn’t been in the capital of the United Kingdom was …how cheap everything is. A few hours later it happened to walk in front of a house society and comparing prices with Finland where I live I decided it was more worth it to get a house in London than a crappy one outside Helsinki and I’m not joking.

The refusal to make this measure experimental and temporary shows that the executive could not care less about its effectivity to tackle online child pornography or about its disastrous consequences. This measure will allow the French government to take control of the Internet, as the door is now open to the extension of Net filtering.