Bashar Al-Assad
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War in Syria: Major powers in a strategic deadlock
7 June 2013213 23 Gazeta.ru Moscou -
War in Syria: Neighbourliness
5 June 201357 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Syria: The Spanish Civil War of our time
5 June 2013250 28 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Spain: ‘Brussels asks Spain to speed up tax and pension reforms’
28 May 2013109 4PresseuropEl País -
Syria: Unhappy anniversary
15 March 201345 La Liberté Fribourg -
Europe – Syria: No one lifts a finger to stop Assad
16 February 2012224 7 Revista 22 Bucharest
To resolve the Syrian conflict, Europeans, Russians and Americans are reviving the time-honoured policy of promoting grand peace conferences. But this time, the local situation is beyond their control.
Intervene or stay out? Like the conflict between Franco and the Republicans in the 1930s, the Syrian civil war poses a dilemma for Europeans – follow your conscience, or accept the diktats of Realpolitik. And every massacre alters the arguments.
How to oppose the massacres in Syria? While the question grows more pressing by the day, the West, and Europe in particular, seems indecisive and helpless. Is it because conditions have changed following the intervention in Libya.