Today, the French people elected Mr. Nicolas Sarcozy, a conservative, to be a new French president, for the next five years. He got about 53% of the votes, and Ms. Ségolène Royal, a socialist candidate, got 47% of the votes.
Whenever a new elections bring some change in the world’s key countries, which France undoubtedly is, for the last several years, I have an impression that no good results are to be expected for the world. Looks like the new generation of conservative politicians are reviving national sentiments, which they like to call “traditional values”. In Europe, conservatives usually bring closing of the country for the immigrants, decline in European integration, neoconservative policies with a bit of racial flavour.
(more…)
Categories: World politics
I decided to put this post in the “International law” category, but also in the “World politics”, because of my sincere opinion that this is far from being simply matter for international lawyers to discuss, but that this is for a long time a political issue par excellence. Yesterday, an US federal Court of Appeals decided that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear any habeas corpus appeal by any of the Guantanamo detainees.
When I read a decision in it’s integral version, I will give my “precious legalistic opinion” on this, but for the time being, I want to share that in my opinion, this is just another outrageous decision that goes against fundamental civilized values American society is built on.
(more…)
Categories: International law · World politics
