The European future in the current worldwide conflict

The longest conflict in modern history, which saw the deployments expand into global involvement, opens a new phase in history. The future remains uncertain, But Palestine is not subjugated for more than 70 years. now it is at the center of a conflict that will involve the major world powers. The news is in Europe. Angela Merkel's chancellorship which ended with an agreement with Russia was evidence of an agreement between Europe and Russia.20 aprile prima revisione

I don't know if Arafat was convinced of it but the meeting ended with a big hug which demonstrated the interest in the aforementioned Italian.

as the conflict expands on the Middle Eastern shores, the European Union occupies a peripheral position, while at the same time it suffers a decline not only in international politics but in economic and social politics. Its largest country reversed its growth, ending 1923 in crisis with a reduction in national income. Others, such as France and Italy, are among the countries with the lowest growth globally

Economic theory had anticipated the results and the imbalances, finding a point of agreement between Keynesians and monetarists. In other words, if demand is declining due to the increase in prices and the relative reduction in wages and pensions, only public intervention can intervene in the majority of public spending and, as regards consumption in the income and of pensions which are the basis of consumption and growth. support for production in the sectors most directly linked to public intervention as in the case of sectors linked to cinema participation. The European Commission has consolidated the imbalance in investments and consumption by focusing on the reduction of public intervention and on competition between the various member countries in which some national minors have grown while national income has declined. In essence, the impoverishment of a growing part of the population has been accompanied by the growth in wealth of 5-10 percent of the population having control of the parties and governments linked to the politics of the European Union dominated by the European Commission. There will be European elections in June and the results and direction of the commission are being discussed. The forecasts are uncertain. She can be confirmed by von der Leyen or replaced by Mario Draghi or other candidates. But the European Union is Russia in the ongoing conflict and has a secondary role in the new structure of global politics. Europe has condemned itself to the periphery of ongoing history, victim of the economic fall and of the political role that both fears and growing degrees of uncertainty have exercised in the past, especially under the leadership of France - which was at the origin of the European community in the of the last century – and of Germany, the country with the greatest growth among the large countries of the Western world. The economic decline reflected in the political difficulties of European governments makes its future completely uncertain and, in many ways, secondary in the context of new relationships at a global level.a. The European Commission has consolidated the imbalance in investments and consumption by focusing on the reduction of public intervention and on competition between the various member countries in which some national minors have grown while national income has declined. In essence, the impoverishment of a growing part of the population has been accompanied by the growth in wealth of 5-10 percent of the population having control of the parties and governments linked to the politics of the European Union dominated by the European Commission. There will be European elections in June and the results and direction of the commission are being discussed. The forecasts are uncertain. She can be confirmed by von der Leyen or replaced by Mario Draghi or other candidates. But the European Union is Russia in the ongoing conflict and has a secondary role in the new structure of global politics. Europe has condemned itself to the periphery of ongoing history, victim of the economic fall and of the political role that both fears and growing degrees of uncertainty have exercised in the past, especially under the leadership of France - which was at the origin of the European community in the of the last century – and of Germany, the country with the greatest growth among the large countries of the Western world. The economic decline reflected in the political difficulties of European governments makes its future completely uncertain and, in many ways, secondary in the context of new relationships at a global level. The

a trend that is reflected in the reduced growth of 0.6 and 0.9 percent in France and Italy, the other two main countries of the European Union.

April 18 afternoon English article

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The European future in the current worldwide conflict

Europe that was once at the centre of global history has now become irrelevant

The ongoing war in the Palestinian territory does not present a clear future. Was it avoidable? IIt is worth going back over the last decades, taking a look at the policy that was involved.

I have some personal memories. It was the early nineties when, with a delegation from the CGIL which included the general secretary Lama, national secretay Trentin and myself we met Arafat in Tunis where his headquarters were.

Yasser Arafat was very happy with the initiative but complained about the position I had expressed writing on the Israeli-Palestinian question. I had written said that there was the chance of a solution on the basis of concussions of the Oslo international meeting on the peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But Arafat had probably  been misinformed by his advisors on the Italian position in favor of a dialogue with the new government of Israel. The meeting ended with a big hug which demonstrated the interest  of Arafat in the Italian Trade unions position.

The effective opportunity for an agreement had arisen with the Israeli government of Yitzhak Rabin of the Labour party , who in the previous years had taken part as head of the army in the conflict with Egypt led and Syria.  In the following years he had been head of the Israel government, and now he had been elected for the second time at the head of the government , and was convinced of the possibility of an agreement to solve the Palestinian problems. It was not a case that Rabin invited Arafat to discuss about a peace process. And the most important moment was their meeting in Washinton with Bill Clinton who had recently been elected to the presidency of the United States. The important meeting was celebrated by a commune photo. It seemed to be the start of a new course as prelude to a peace agreement. But Rabin, who had been  awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in November 1995 was killed by a young member of the Israeli right.

With the assassination of Rabin, the peace process lacked its main Israeli protagonist. After an interregnum led by Simon Peres  between November 1955 and  November 1996, the elections brought a right-wing exponent, Benjamin Netanyahu, to government and the peace process remained unachieved.

In those years, approximately one million people of the Israelite faith arrived in Israel from Eastern Europe. But when Arafat asked that 500 thousand Palestinians scattered in neighbouring countries could return to Palestine, the request was denied. The peace process had been blocked by the new leaders of Israel. In 2003 Arafat, who had banked on the agreement, died (many said he was a victim of poisoning) in a Paris hospital.

The end of the peace process had given rise to the second intifada.  In 2005 Abu Mazen took over the governments of  Palestine, while Hamas had taken control of the Gaza Strip. But Abu Mazen considered Hamas an opponent of the government installed in the West Bank, and Gaza was isolated. In essence, the perspective of a Palestinian government became difficult due to  the division of the opposed Palestinian representatives.

The end of the peace process

2.  When I returned to Palestine for a meeting with the resistance leaders, Palestine was essentially under Israeli military command. From the top of a building in the central square we - I was with Renato Lattes -  were stopped from armed  military israelians asking tot interrogate our Palestinian companion who was driving the car that had taken us through hilly roads to Nablus in the West Bank. Evidently they wanted to question him and get to know the people we had been with. In the end we were  left, telling  that he had guided us on our request, and stating that the Italian government was informed of our mission - in fact not a mission and, in any case, completely ignored by the Italian ambassade.

The Israeli-Palestinian war had two features. On the one hand, the West Bank had an Israeli government led by Abu Mazen without any effective power. The Israelis had established about hundred settlements in Palestinian territory. The effective  opponent in the conflict was Hamas, confined to Gaza, closed, on one side by the Mediterranean see and, on the other side by the fundamentally desert territory controlled by Israel.

Israel, under Netanyahu's leadership, has the armed control of Gaza…,the territory on the shores of the Mediterranean where now live 2 million 200 thousand Palestinians. The others Palestinians,  about five million, are divided: roughly 2.1 million Palestinian citizens live in Israel territory as "Arab citizens of Israel",  a part on the southern border of Jerusalem and the majority in the West Bank, while about seven million more Palestinians live in the middle eastern countries, mostly in Jordan.

It is a figure similar to that of the hebrew population of of 15.7 million people, - over six million in the United States and a minor percentage in France, Great Britain and Italy.

3 The current conflict has not found a solution. Hamas with the attack on Israel has caused the dead of 1200 Israelis while around 150 Israelis were prisoner. The reaction is known. The Israeli army could advance into Gaza territory without obstacles. The Palestinian people did not have an army. Hamas militants were partly in the underground network where they kept the captive Israelis.

The Israeli army could advance into Gaza without obstacles. About one and a half million Palestinians who have abandoned houses, largely destroyed, live in tents set up on the Mediterranean coast.

But the novelty is that the war, differently from what happened in the second half of the nineties, has acquired a central role in the new international framework. China along with Russia have become close to Palestinians. Saudi Arabia has reached an agreement with Iran after a decade of hostility. the Hutus who controlled the arc of the sea that goes from the Gulf of Aden to the Suez Canal direct to the Mediterranean are fighting against Israel.

The conflict has  assumed global characteristics.

Israel has substantial support from the United States and its major allies, centered on Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, as well as Australia and Canada. The European Union is on the side of Israel. But European countries have

growing difficulties in the war against Russia -  a war essentially lost.  NATO is expanding to minor countries, but is away from the center of the current conflict. And it is not a case that the US substancually  suspended the involvement the war against Russia.

The Marginality of Europe

Palestine has not been subjugated for more than 70 years. now it is at the center of a conflict that is involving the major world powers. Angela Merkel, when still was German Chancellor, had agreed a deal with Russia which, in many respects, involved the European Union and its relations with Russia.

There was the inauguration of the second gas pipeline between Russia and German servicing also  other European countries. The meeting in Moscow had ended with a large bouquet of flowers offered by Putin to Angela Merkel. But the agreement was canceled after the end of Merkel's mandate and the American intervention contrary to the agreement between the European Union and the Russian Federation.

The end of Russian gas supplies has had repercussions on the entire European economy with an increase in prices and the consequent drop in demand for goods and services. Ultimately, the reduction of growth and employment.

Economic theory has found a point of agreement between Keynesians and monetarists. In other words, if demand is declining due to the increase in prices and the relative reduction in wages and pensions,” only public intervention can intervene in the majority of public spending and, as regards income and pensions which are the basis of consumption and growth”. European policy has followed the contrary policy, continuing to pretend the reduction of the public debt – in other words the reduction of public investment, revenues and consumes.

Mario Draghi, former president of the BCE and recently head of the Italian government , has suggested  in the European  meeting of April 15^th a common European policy with regard to the  different approaches of Chine and Us in front of the EU difficulties, pointing out on a European Union’ increased expenses  to strength growth and employment. A suggestion that  doesn’t take into account the different positions among the EU states and the current economic difficulties of each member state.

German sorts from a year of recession (a rare event in the post second worldwide war) with a forecasted growth of 0.2 percent in the current year. A trend that is reflected in the forecast  growth under 1 percent in France and Italy, the other two main countries of the European Union.The Draghi’ proposition was clearly  linked for his candidature to the presidency of the European Union  after the possible retirement of Ursula von der Leyen. 

In essence, the impoverishment of a growing part of the population has been accompanied by the growth in wealth of 5-10 percent of the population having control of the parties and governments linked to the politics of the European Union dominated by the European Commission.

There will be European elections in next June. The forecasts are uncertain. But it is a matter of fact that the European Union ,in the ongoing context dominated by the war in the Middle east has a secondary role .

Europe has condemned itself to the periphery of ongoing history. The economic decline reflects the difficulties and irrelevance  of the European governments with a position secondary in the context of the war and new relationships at a global level.