Catégorie : Writing

À Ferguson, en attente de justice, le calme stérile et irréel

The words "Pray for Love" are attached to a pillar in Ferguson, MO, Monday August 25th, in what constitutes one of the three installations in memorial of Michael Brown, killed earlier this month. His picture can be seen behind as part of another memorial, in the middle of Canfield drive, on the spot he has been shot at by officer Darren Wilson, promoting days of unrest in the St Louis suburb. He has been buried on Monday, August 25th, after a service in St Louis, attended by family and civil rights activists. In the street, the night has been quiet as urged by the family, though people say the fight is "not over yet". (Yann Schreiber)

À St Louis (Missouri), il est devenu difficile d’aborder un sujet différent. Michael Brown, l’adolescent mort dans les rues de la petite commune de Ferguson, banlieue de St Louis, le 9 août dernier, est dans tous les esprits. Sa mort touche une communauté ignorée et invisible qui semble néanmoins déterminée à amorcer un changement.

12 new “really high” names on EU sanctions list

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (left), and Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council, speaking at a press conference following the first day of the European Council in Brussels, Belgium

The EU is expanding, but not intensifying its sanctions against Russia. The European Council has adopted conclusions, which further expand stage two sanctions, but without passing to stage three, EU official have said. The list of people targeted by stage two measures is to be expanded by 12 names, bringing it to a total of 33, “some of them really high ranking”, says the President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, at a news conference following the first day of the EU Council.

EU Gipfel diskutiert Russland-Sanktionen beim Abendessen

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking ahead of the European Council in Brussels, Belgium, hands back a microphone that has fallen down.

Als Angela Merkel an jener Absperrung, hinter welcher die Versammelten Reporter und Journalisten um das eine oder andere Wort der EU Staats- und Regierungschefs, die zum Europäischen Rat anrauschen, hoffen, ankommt, fällt einer Reporterin glatt das Mikrophon aus der Hand. Unruhe und Verwunderung machen sich breit. Ein Attaché reagiert und bückt sich, doch die Kanzlerin ist schneller : Lächelnd hebt sie das Mikrophon auf – und bringt ihre Nachricht. Das Thema der Begierde : die Situation in der Ukraine.

Russia vetoes Security Council resolution on Ukraine

And Putin takes it all again — On Saturday, March 15, 2014, at the Security Council, a resolution, drafted by the US, and condemning the referendum in Crimea as « illegal, » has not been adopted, following a veto by the Russian Federation. Russia « has the power to veto a resolution, but it does not have the power to veto the… Poursuivre la lecture Russia vetoes Security Council resolution on Ukraine

Of world diplomacy, a Kingdom, and our Union

Kara Owen, in Nancy

Kara Owen, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Paris It’s with a faint “wow” that Karen Owen, deputy ambassador of the United Kingdom in France, entered the Amphitheatre Berlin, on the European Franco-German campus in Nancy, on Thursday, 13th February 2014. As students kept rushing in, even our director François Laval welcomed her with… Poursuivre la lecture Of world diplomacy, a Kingdom, and our Union