The gas bill

A Hosni Mubarak is going to be expensive the gas bill. On February 11 he lost the presidency of Egypt, which he enjoyed since 1981, but the best is yet to come: now it threatens to pass the bill agreement signed in secret with Israeli companies SUPPLIES natural gas at bargain prices. In Tahrir Square, main stage of the Egyptian popular revolt, the sale of natural gas to Israel was one of the reasons put forward by the protest movement.

General power

As often as democratic elections, the military coup has been in the modern world a method to change the government rescued. Bolivia, for example, suffered his first pronouncements 189 168 years of independence. But the world has changed, and the military coup, as the energy becomes. In the middle of last March, after the popular revolt of Egypt, Khaled Saad Zaghlul, a journalist with Al Ahram, described the fall of Hosni Mubarak as a "smart coup" army.

True Finns

In early nineties, in the debate on the Maastricht treaty, I read some disturbing statements by Helmut Schmidt in which he argued that Europe or the euro is consolidating rapidly and was doomed to failure because the old Germanic nationalism resurface under the chant demagogic it was the Germans who were funding the Union and had to return to the framework as its national currency.

For now, unfortunately this has not happened. But every time the euro is in danger I feel a chill to remember these words of the former chancellor, a politician that I have a deep respect for his intelligence, preparation and cunning. German nationalism, for the moment, has not reappeared.