Das „positive Denken“ eines Herman Van Rompuy wird besonders gefährlich in Kombination mit einer politischen Utopie. Denn die EU-Zentralisten wollen das „positive Denken“ in Europa erzwingen. Sie tun das – noch – nicht mit einer geheimen Staatspolizei. Aber ihre Informationspolitik zeigt ganz klar, wohin die Reise geht

Elsewhere in the periphery, Ireland is in its sixth year of recession, Portugal is heading for major economic contraction, and Spain is going from bad to worse – but their governments are imposing austerity, and people appear to be putting up with it. Even core countries, including Italy and France, have accepted the need for balanced budgets. Across the eurozone, there is no effective opposition to the mantra of austerity emanating from Berlin.

QA12: Ganz allgemein gesprochen, ruft die EU bei Ihnen ein sehr positives, ziemlich positives, weder positives noch negatives, ziemlich negatives oder sehr negatives Bild hervor?

Former PM says that Palestinian tension and frustration are mounting but stresses opportunity for peace is still viable

Die Aufwertung einer Hochschule in der Siedlerstadt Ariel im Westjordanland zu einer Universität wurde unterdessen endgültig abgesegnet.

Maj. Gen. Bashar Haj Oubeid said that “The conspiracy targeting Syria and the instigative campaigns against it, led by foreign sides, are aimed to undermine its resistance to hegemony projects, but the Syrians‘ awareness and love to their country have foiled the conspiracy.“

„Every time we hear rumors that the Syrians are doing something with chemical weapons, we double-check, we triple-check, we go directly to the government, and all the time we get very firm assurances that this is not going to be used under any circumstances,“ Lavrov said in an interview with the Russia Today TV channel.

Zuvor bereits hatten Behörden in Damaskus bestätigt, dass Makdisi das Land verlassen habe. Es handle sich jedoch nicht um eine Flucht, sondern um eine „offiziell genehmigte“ Ausreise, hatte es geheißen.

“I am Major General Abdul Aziz Jassem Al Shallal, chief of the military police in Syria, I declare my defection from the regime’s army,” he said Tuesday in a video aired by news channel Al Arabiya.

The designation, officially announced on Dec.11, lists Jabhat al-Nusra as an alias of al-Qaeda in Iraq and says that since November 2011 the group has claimed responsibility for “nearly 600 terrorist attacks, killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians.” The group was unknown until late January 2012, when it announced its formation