Turkiets författningsdomstol förbjöd i förra veckan landets största kurdiska parti. Ett bakslag för landets demokratiska utveckling och dess förhandlingar om ett EU-medlemskap.
Med motiveringen att det politiska partiet DTP (Demokratik Toplum Partisi) har kvar förbindelser med den kurdiska terrororganisationen PKK, förbjöds det och dess ledare bannlystes från politiken i fem år. På lördagen uppgavs att...
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Återigen politisk turbulens i Turkiet
What good are the plants?
Almost everything is interrelated and if something is not related to something else, there is probably something related to something that is related to something else. Hope you weren’t put off by that introduction, because I have a really important point to make here.
The...
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Berlusconi attackerad med plastkatedral
Italiens premiärminister, Silvio Berlusconi blev under söndagen attackerad av en man med vad som först uppgetts ha varit en metallmodell av katedralen i Milano. Ny information tyder dock på att modellen var av plast. Mannen kastade katedralen mot Berlusconi och träffade premiärministerns ansikte. Det...
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Just water
We are now on the 6th day of the 15th climate change conference. So far it seems like it’s pending between hope and despair. To try to follow and cover as much as possible concerning water issues is challenging. But what I’ve learned is...
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Global visions, local actions
When people talk about people around here, they often don’t talk about real people. Sometimes they don’t talk about unreal people either, even though it is certain that without any kind of people there would be no worries, no fuzz and no COP 15....
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I salute you
It’s cold, rainy and grey. To be honest, the weather in Copenhagen is quite miserable. When arriving to Bella Center metro station, most people rush before the queues to get inside as quick as possible. Inside, they spend the day informing, getting informed, negotiating,...
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The scramble for food
What can possibly be hiding behind the massive bunch of people pushing and thrusting? Is there some famous politician or leader being interviewed? Has there been an accident? Have the negotiations become this fierce? No – free snacks are being served.
Before going to Bella...
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An apple a day…
People are different. If there is one lesson to learn from living in Bella Centre for a couple of days, it would be that people are very, very different. There are 14.000 accredited conference participants in here, and all of us have different habits,...
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Turning COPenhagen into Hopenhagen
“Things are not going well” the lead negotiator for the G77 countries, Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aiping, said to Danish TV2 as he stormed out from consultations with the Danish chairman of COP15 yesterday. The diplomatic gloves have now definitely come off as the first weeks...
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Sometimes a little is (not) enough
Poor people in developing countries don’t have time to wait. In particular not the poorest of the poor. With no money and few possibilities, the poorest of the poor remain suffering and are actually dying.
Even though decisions are to be taken during the conference,...
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European guinea pigs put their trust in African Jathropa
It is a common fact that once people get comfortable, they don’t like to go uncomfortable. In the west, most of us are not too keen on negotiating with our living standards, meaning that we don’t want to question our level of comfort. Driving...
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Welcome to abbreviation land, please enjoy the fuddle
“If you don’t want to ask any questions, I’m going to pick the next questioner”, the chairperson said, laughing. There I was, sitting at my first-ever briefing, and for the first time ever, the chair of a UN meeting was waiting for me to...
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