IAP Political Forum - Europe and Asia

Kyrgyzstan is under invisible strike of China!

dummy@example.com (Fredledingue) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:14:15 +0000

Hello! I am Kyrgyz and I decided to register on this forum because I want to open people’s years to what China is doing to its closer neighbors like the country where I live in.

What China is doing, is kind of intervention that cannot be seen. It’s an economic-based intervention. Chinese producers little by little push out our domestic producers on their own territory! It is terribly hard to resist it because economics of Kyrgyzstan got to serious harm during the crisis when China has vast financial resources. What is happening right now, Chinese business is actively penetrating with our economics. This is a real economic purge. Domestic enterprises go to rack and ruin one by one and Chinese enterprises come to their place. If it goes like this, soon their will be only Chinese enterprises here. More Chinese people, less Kyrgyz men. We are sure it goes on not without Chinese secret services that direct this intervention. We also can see it clearly that my nation is of no use for China. They only want our land and resources. When they are done with us, they will come to you too! Beware!

Swiss vote against minarets

dummy@example.com (Fredledingue) — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:05:19 +0000

Interesting news from Switzerland?!!

Projection: Swiss vote to ban new minarets

GENEVA — Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed.
The projections based on partial returns say Swiss swung from only 37 percent supporting the proposal a week ago to 59 percent in the actual voting.
Claude Longchamp, leader of the widely respected gfs.bern polling institute, said the projection contracted by state-owned DRS television forecasts approval of the initiative by more than half the country's 26 cantons, meaning it will become a constitutional amendment.
The nationalist Swiss People's Party describes minarets, the distinctive spires used in most countries for calls to prayer, as symbols of rising Muslim political and religious power that could eventually turn Switzerland into an Islamic nation

Whether the fears are founded or not, whether one personally approves this or not.

The question is: Is this legal? Is this normal behavior in a country like Switzerland?

The seven-member Cabinet that heads the Swiss government has spoken out strongly against the initiative, and local officials and rights defenders objected to campaign posters showing minarets rising like missiles from the Swiss flag next to a fully veiled woman.

Who’s to win in Ukraine?

dummy@example.com (Lokky) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:05:54 +0000

Do you take any interest in the theme? Actually it’s vitally important for Germany and other EU countries ‘cause paradoxically it may sound we still in subordinate position relating Ukraine. She is staying our major transit gas route (hope North stream and South stream projects will change things for the better).
Meanwhile the quite humiliating dependence does take place.
Look, if I were among our smart guys in Brussels I would choose to be dependent rather on a predictable pragmatist able to patch up dilapidated economy of Ukraine (including its outdated gas pipe) at the fastest possible pace and not just at the EU’s expense (Ms Timoshenko has come into that bad habit).
Well the fact that Mr Yanukovich is leading the presidential race in the Ukraine is actually good news for EU. According to a FT article the man has retained control of the eastern industrial heartland and enjoys the support of the key Ukrainian tycoons headed by Rinat Akhmetov (the Ukraine’s richest man).

Putin Copies Obama/Geithner on Economy

dummy@example.com (Fredledingue) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:08:18 +0000

A few months ago they all criticized the US for mishandling the financial crisis. Today they reckon Obama and Geithner's genius.

A Cash for Clunker and a vodka-lemon flavored Mortgage Baill Out.
Just remove the balalaika music in the background, it's the same as what was done in the US.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) wrote:

– Vladimir Putin pledged on Saturday to widen Russia's anti-crisis aid package with a car scrappage scheme and mortgage support to jolt the economy out of the worst recession in 15 years.
Putin wrote:
Russia would pay 50,000 roubles ($1,733) to those car owners who agreed to trade in vehicles over 10 years old for new domestically made cars
....
Russia would support the mortgage market with 250 billion roubles of support in 2010.

One difference here, it's not "Cash for Clunker" but "Clunker for Cash".
They are crazy: Even when you pay them to do so, poeple don't want to drive Lada cars.

wrote:

The former Kremlin chief said Russia would widen its anti-crisis program for carmakers and that he was sure ailing carmaker AvtoVAZ had a future. He added Russia would help firms buy high-technology assets abroad.
But the premier said AvtoVAZ, which makes Lada cars, would have to modernize and he hoped shareholders -- which include France's Renault -- would behave responsibly.

They also talk tax

Alexander Shokhin, who heads Russia's main business lobby, the Union of Industrialists and Entrepeneurs, wrote:

tax reform should be a priority for the government.

IMO the governement should also lower contributions private companies must pay to the mafia and to the bandits who block goods at the customs.

link

EU Mystery

dummy@example.com (Fredledingue) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:46:20 +0000

No topics in the Europe section yet??

So...who has heard of the grey mouse (and who thinks he's going to be a nominal and unchallenging first EU President?)

And what kind of deal did the UK make to lose Blair and the Trade Commission position but gain only "Foreign and Security"?

It could be fulfilling the prophesies of those who see the machinations surrounding the Lisbon Treaty as the beginning of a long nightmare of unelected representatives, living high on the hog while the people they should represent have not a word to say about it.

And what about the EU military force which it's said will begin to increase in capacity? US comfortable with France and Germany (who are the real power-wielders in the EU) having potential to direct such a force in the future?

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/11/20/818 … u-top-jobs