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Valcárcel, Darío
4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Europe must help Somalia now
The famine in the Horn of Africa has worsened in recent days. But the time for long discussions has passed; the EU must lose no time in providing more help, writes Darío Valcárcel in the Blog A Europa desalinhada for the weekly Expresso: "First of all this country torn by decades of civil war needs to be reorganised. Somalia is not plagued by poverty but misery. Poverty has dignity; misery deprives people of their dignity. It is a combination of violence, chaos and shortages. Talking won't help, what is needed is action. ... The Europeans who want to help Somalia now must take misery, disease, hunger and extreme violence into their stride. But we are talking about tomorrow here: they must provide the country with educational institutions and police forces to protect them. The time frame must be taken into account: training doesn't last 20 years here but just one of two years. Particularly in countries like Somalia the EU must provide a transparency that can be subject to scrutiny at all times."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Natural disasters, » Natural disasters, » Europe, » Somalia
Crisis calls for European budget
The conservative Spanish daily ABC writes that the crisis calls for the establishment of a common European budget: There is a connection between China and the project of a European budget, inconceivable only ten years ago but within reach today. China believes that only an agreement among the four major powers (the US and Canada, the European Union, Japan and China) can save the world from the crisis. New structures are sometimes constructed on ruins. Europe has developed slowly over the past 50 years, while the member states involve themselves in the Union. Now there is not a minute to lose. The euro is at risk. If it falls we would lose all hope (and a new Union would immediately emerge, based on more intense cooperation at a financial and defence level)."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » EU Policy, » Fiscal Policy, » Financial Markets, » Europe, » China
The difficult construction of a powerful European defence
"Granted, we are far from being able to speak of Europe as a major military power. Nonetheless, several preliminary steps have been discreetly taken in the past few years", explains Darío Valcárcel, referring in particular to the creation of the Military Staff of the European Union (EUMS). "There exists a transversal Europeanism that 80 % of the political class embraces, conservatives and socialists included. These Europeans believe that nothing can advance without a common defence. EU law, the single currency and cohesion are to be protected by a defence policy that can guarantee respect of treaties. The slow evolution of national armies towards a trans-national agreement demands urgent decisions. This means defining how it can evolve, within which limits and with which mandate."
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » EU Policy, » Europe
Crisis at EADS
"What is going on at Airbus?" asks Dario Valcarcel. "Boiled down to its essence, Airbus's predicament can be summed up thus: a communication problem in the department responsible for making some of the plane's parts. ... In recent months, Airbus's designers and managers have been under pressure to step up the pace. The world of marketing must not meddle in the industrial production process and impose deadlines that cannot be kept. ... This is a dangerous path, especially in the field of aviation, where security is paramount. While the German, Spanish and British plants provided viable information on their deadlines, the French plant lied about the matter, resulting in a six-month delay, which is not all that dramatic. But the possible insider trading by French executives, if proven, is much more serious."
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More from the press review on the subject » Corporations, » Europe
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