EU and Brazil agree on a “speedy conclusion” of the trade pact with Mercosur
25th January, 2013
Both the EU and Mercosur “expressed the strong political will to reach an accord,” Van Rompuy told reporters.
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The New World Order is not turning out as planned. Instead of all power emanating from London and Washington, new power centres are emerging to the South and East: a new global equilibrium raises the possibility of a new post-imperial age of peace and equality between nations.
EU-Mercosur pact
Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2013
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A diverse programme of cultural activity focusing on China and Brazil, touring across Scotland
Posted by seumasach on January 24, 2013
February, 2013
A diverse programme of cultural activity focusing on China and Brazil, touring across Scotland from 12-20 February 2013
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Obama gets it right(for a change)
Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
23rd January, 2013
You don’t have to regard Barack Obama as the the embodiment of ultimate virtue to support the recent shift towards a certain realism in Washington. He has declared an end to “war without end”. It doesn’t matter that this is only an accommodation to new realities and not the reflection of some inherent goodness in the US leader. What matters is that he is aware of reality and is accommodating to it: this is what leadership is about. He has recognised that the policy options chosen by his administration have not worked. They could have worked perhaps but they didn’t . The government of Bashar-al Assad has not collapsed in the face of Western sponsored Islamist movements and is not going to. The eurozone is not going to collapse to accommodate the US dollar. America is not going to dictate the course of world events over the coming years. The New World Order, at least not the one envisaged by Washington, London and Tel Aviv, will not come into being.Let us then applaud Barack Obama for providing us with change we might even believe in: a shift in Washington towards an acceptance of the facts, of a return to planet earth.
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Hagel cordial, but outdated on China
Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2013
Brendan O’Reilly
12th January, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
News of Chuck Hagel’s nomination to Secretary of Defense has been warmly received in China. Hagel, like most of the contemporary leadership of the American military, favors closer engagement with his counterparts in the People’s Liberation Army. China’s top leadership has interpreted Hagel’s recent public statements as reassuring signals of American cordiality.
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Russia to become European powerhouse by 2020
Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2013
The collective GDP of the seven emerging economies could become larger than that of the G7 group of developed economies as early as 2017, the report said.
16th January, 2013
Russia is due to overtake the German economy by 2020, and the E7 club of emerging economies will take the reins of the world economy in another 30 years according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report.
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BRICS obituaries are premature
Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
5th January, 2013
2013 has barely got under way but Indian foreign policy is already trotting — between a walk and a canter in speed. Certainly, the consultations with the secretary-general of Iran’s national security council, Saeed Jalili have been extremely significant both in timing and content.
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Will Russia use G20 presidency to strengthen Brics’ position in the world financial order?
Posted by seumasach on January 3, 2013
31st December, 2012
Russia this month took over the presidency of the G20, the club of the world’s biggest economies that accounts for 90pc of global GDP and 80pc of world trade.
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Euro-BRICS 2012-2014
Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2012
Towards thematic cooperation networks based on a specific politico-diplomatic framework
Report of the 3rd Euro-BRICS Seminar
20th December, 2012
The world continues to move through an historical crisis which marks the end of the systems and power relationships dominating the world since the end of the Second World War. The dynamics at the heart of the events of accelerated globalisation and markets’ unbridled expansion these last twenty years have just collapsed. International relations in all fields (finance, economy, currencies, strategy, diplomacy…) have been subjected to an unprecedented rebalancing over the last few decades. This new global context creates new balances (and imbalances) which are rapidly replacing those inherited from the last two major breaches in the world order, namely the Second World War and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Whether for peacefully managing the tensions which are dawning at all the levels of world governance inherited from the 20th century, against a background of an ongoing global systemic crisis, players on a world scale, old, new, or resurgent must display audacity and innovation to try and lay down the bases of 21st century world governance. In this respect, without any doubt, Europeans from Euroland and Russians constitute a promising partnership which can be used as a base for such a renewal. The Euro-BRICS initiative, jointly administered by LEAP/E2020 and the MGIMO since 2010 and now supported by an active network of experts from Euroland, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is, incidentally, an obvious example.
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Iran tests America’s grasp of reality
Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2012
Pepe Escobar
8th December, 2012
In Election 2012’s theater-of-the-absurd “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times. Despite all the fear, loathing, threats, and lies in that billionaire’s circus of a campaign season, Americans were nonetheless offered virtually nothing substantial about Iran, although its (non-existent) WMDs were relentlessly hawked as the top US national security issue. (The world was, however, astonished to learn from candidate Romney that Syria, not the Persian Gulf, was that country’s “route to the sea”.)
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Post-US world born in Phnom Penh
Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2012
Spengler
27th November, 2012
It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world’s population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States.
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China and Russia are acquiring gold, dumping US Dollars
Posted by seumasach on November 20, 2012
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
11th November, 2012
There is evidence that central banks in several regions of the World are building up their gold reserves. What is published are the official purchases.
A large part of these Central Bank purchases of gold bullion are not disclosed. They are undertaken through third party contracting companies, with utmost discretion.
US dollar holdings and US dollar denominated debt instruments are in effect being traded in for gold, which in turn puts pressure on the US dollar.
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