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Kahlweit, Cathrin
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Supposed redeemers
Deploying ground troops in Libya would have a considerable political fallout, writes the left-liberal daily Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Should individual members of the Security Council extend the mandate to encompass such action they will encounter fierce opposition. ... This military operation could probably be decided on the ground, but it would be an historical mistake if European troops were to go to war on Arab soil with largely unknown partners and an unclear outcome. It's more honest, as bitter as this may be, to continue providing the help they can - humanitarian, diplomatic, with huge political pressure - but within the framework of the current consensus. The political damage in Libya and the Middle East will be great. But not as great as a Nato war fought on Arab soil or a military mission undertaken by the West without the corresponding mandate."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Libya
Ignorance is the biggest disaster
The environmental standards in Western Europe have not yet been applied to the mining and metallurgical industries in Eastern Europe, complains the left-liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung: "This sector has long required major investments. In Romania for example the dam burst in a gold ore processing plant in Baia Mare, releasing tens of thousands of cubic metres of cyanide-contaminated water and sullying numerous rivers. Back then it was considered the worst disaster in Eastern Europe since Chernobyl. In the same way the accident in Hungary is being compared with the disaster back then. But the real catastrophe in Eastern Europe is the widespread ignorace in environmental matters. The next accidents are already waiting to happen because many contaminated areas remain, because the corrupt authorities don't supervise at all and because while environmental damage does appear in the ecological reports, it doesn't figure in companies' balance sheets. But it must be said, this problem is not confined to only Eastern Europe."
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More from the press review on the subject » Environmental Policy, » Corporations, » Hungary, » Eastern Europe
Young democracies in danger
The German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung fears that the financial crisis could put the young democracies in Eastern Europe at risk. "Pessimists are already talking of the need to ward off the threat of national bankruptcy in Ukraine and Hungary. ... Since the fall of the [Berlin] Wall and the EU's eastwards expansion Central Eastern Europe's progress has been seen as a success story. ... For low lending rates, high rates of investment and improving living standards have led to a boom in the region that practically happened of its own accord. But now it turns out that at least in some states this success was built on sand - a life lived on bad loans. There is a dearth of reforms, of strong central banks and efficient bureaucracies. The voters in many young democracies are already disillusioned. If the necessary cuts and policy of austerity are now foisted upon them this could generate a very different kind of boom: that of populists and anti-Europeans."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » Fiscal Policy, » Economic Policy, » Hungary, » Ukraine, » Eastern Europe
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