Serbia warns Kosovo against ‘undermining’ regional stability

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on Sunday (11 November) accused Kosovo of “undermining regional cooperation and stability” by raising taxes on Serbian goods.

A dialogue between the two former foes is stalled for months and the latest Pristina move illustrates lasting tensions two decades since the Kosovo war.

The 1998-1999 conflict between Belgrade forces and pro-independence ethnic Albanians claimed more than 13,000 lives.

Kosovo and Serbia’s presidents met Thursday under EU auspices to resume dialogue aimed at normalising relations, amid increasing tensions between former foes.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/serbia-warns-kosovo-against-undermining-regional-stability/

EU lowers its ambitions on African migration control

At the June Council summit in Brussels, EU leaders asked the Commission to study ways to set up “regional disembarkation platforms” in North African countries, including Tunisia, for migrants rescued by European vessels in the Mediterranean.

That demand didn’t last very long.

Within days of the summit, Morocco and the African Union led continent-wide rejection to the EU’s idea of setting up ‘regional disembarkation platforms’ or ‘hot spots’ on their territories.

Civil society campaigners, meanwhile, complained that the migrant camps risked undermining the EU’s commitments to safeguarding human rights.

During a visit to Tunisia on 26 October, Commission President Jean Claude Juncker repudiated the idea that the European Union was trying to set up migrant camps in North Africa.

“This is no longer on the agenda and never should have been,” Juncker told a news conference in Tunis with Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/development-policy/news/eu-lowers-its-ambitions-on-african-migration-control/

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No, we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire (Historically Accurate Almanac) COMPLETE

>>3866569

that was one of my thoughts on it also

Undermining nationally, in order to form a moar perfect world government

Kazakhstan and the Venice Commission

The Council of Europe’s Venice Commission has provided precious support to the process of constitutional and legislative change in Kazakhstan, writes Igor Rogov.

Since its establishment in 1990 by the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission has become the world’s pre-eminent institution regarding constitutional law, uniting the legislative efforts of the international community under a single framework.

The work of the Commission includes scrutinising the laws and draft legislation of member states to ensure that ‘European standards’ of democracy are upheld across the world, as well as offering counsel and recommendations when approached for advice.

As a subsidiary of the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission similarly upholds its admirable values. For almost 70 years, the Council of Europe has been a champion of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe, and continues to be the continent’s leading human rights organisation.

In 2012, Kazakhstan joined the Venice Commission, and is now proud to be one of the 60-member states. Having had observer status since 1998, the advancement of Kazakhstan to become a full member of the Commission is a testament to recognition from the international community of our efforts to strengthen the rule of law.

As one of the world’s younger democratic nations, Kazakhstan is aware that the process of constitutional and legislative change must continue, in order to reflect the admirable standards set by our Venetian partners.

We have made great progress over the past 27 years, but there is still more to be done, and in these efforts, the Venice Commission has proved invaluable, and we welcome its support

https://www.euractiv.com/section/central-asia/opinion/kazakhstan-and-the-venice-commission/

>>3866784

Seems you forgot the in spirit part , stop torturing the text to fed your own ego

>>3866872

you forgot to say you have been lurking for 8 months and was all pro Q and just now decided to tell everybody in your 1st and only post your jumping ship .

President al-Assad, Jaberi Ansari discuss stages achieved in combating terrorism in Syria and efforts to achieve progress on political track

Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad received on Monday Senior Assistant to Iran’s Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, and the accompanying delegation.

Discussions during the meeting dealt with the latest developments in Syria and the region, stressing the importance of the Syrian-Iranian relations as a factor of stability in the region in the face of US policies and tools, which are based on spreading chaos and weakening countries that refuse to submit to its policies.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=150913

Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.

In Qingdao, a city famous for its German colonial heritage, cameras powered by artificial intelligence helped the police snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the midst of a big annual beer festival.

In Wuhu, a fugitive murder suspect was identified by a camera as he bought food from a street vendor.

With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future. Beijing is embracing technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence to identify and track 1.4 billion people. It wants to assemble a vast and unprecedented national surveillance system, with crucial help from its thriving technology industry.

China is reversing the commonly held vision of technology as a great democratizer, bringing people more freedom and connecting them to the world. In China, it has brought control.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/business/china-surveillance-technology.html

>>3867090

when the pain of staying the same is greater then the pain of change then you will understand,,become a fob