Eurasia News

  The reach of speaking is both in what is spoken and - even more - in its visibility of non-verbal communication that accompanies told. However, the magic of writing has a second, stronger power: It lies in the fact that dialogue is not only conducted with contemporaries. Writing can also reach future generations. The great poet Mak says: "When no one listens, write". How will we contemplate about the last couple of decades in some five or ten years? How will we explain our indifference, silence, head bowing, retreat? What will we tell our children, what will we leave to the next generations? Throughout the long and arduous course of human history, both progress and its horizontal transfer were an extremely slow, sporadic and tedious process. Only in the classical period of Alexander the Great and his magnificent Alexandrian library will the speed of transmission of our knowledge change; though modest, analogue, and backward—it still outpaced the snail's pace of our disc

  Economic downturn; recession of plans and initiatives; systematically ignored calls for a fiscal and monetary justice for all ; €-crisis; Brexit and irredentism in the UK, Spain, Belgium, France, Denmark and Italy; lasting instability in the Euro-Med theatre (debt crisis of the Europe’s south – countries scrutinized and ridiculed under the nickname PIGS, coupled with the failed states all over the MENA); terrorism; historic low with Moscow culminating in the unprecedented opened armed conflict of West with Russia on the territory of yet another Slavic useful idiot , ill-fated Ukraine, all this combined with a confrontational but in fact frightened and disoriented Washington administration; influx of predominantly Muslim refugees from Levant in numbers and configurations unprecedented since the WWII exoduses (with an institutionalized racism in the Western migration policy while giving to fleeing Ukrainians diametrically different treatment); consequential growth of far-right parties

  Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium  In a 15th-century priory nestled away in a prestigious neighbourhood of Geneva, an exclusive audience from Europe, Asia, and Africa (under the program focused on International Relations and Global Politics) gathered on the gorgeous grounds of a university before His Excellency Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium and Deputy Secretary General of the Paris-based OECD. He was speaking as part of the Geneva Lecture Series concepted and conducted by Professor Anis H. Bajrektarevic . Until recently, a basic principle of good governance was summarised in the motto „To govern is to foresee“. Now increasingly, it sounds „To govern is to manage the unforeseeable.”   This was the starting point of the presentation by his Excellency Yves Leterme . Prime Minister deeply impressed students with a combination of rational political and business approaches, a clear definition of key topics in society, and providing enough space for discussi