2010- A DECISIVE YEAR by Professor Anton Caragea PhD, MA , FINS
It is in human nature deeply rooted the desire to see what is the future reserving for us. In the ancient times Sybille’s priestess in a cave near Rome interpreted the sacred Sibylline Book to see what the New Year will bring for Rome. Today the desire to know the future remain as strong as ever but the technique has certainly improved. Today geopolitics is here to help us guide our way in the next year. So what will bring to us 2010? ...read more
EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INVITED AT UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 38-th NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS
Between 19 to 24 November 2009 Professor Anton Caragea, president of European Council on International Relations (EUCIR) was invited to participate at the 38 Celebration of National Day of United Arab Emirates. This was the first participation from European Council on International Relations to the National celebration of United Arab Emirates...read more
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND EUROPE – A STRATEGIC PARTERSHIP
United Arab Emirates are celebrating on 2 of December the 38 anniversary of the Independence Day, a day of special significance not only for the Emirates but for the entire area of Persian Gulf and Middle East...read more
CUBAN AMBASSADOR VISIT PROFESSOR CARAGEA WITH FIDEL CASTRO MESSAGE
On 5 November 2009 the Cuban Ambassador H.E Marta Fajardo Palet meet with Professor Anton Caragea to bring latest Reflections by Fidel Castro and a message of support for European Council on International Relations
US NEW POLICY TOWARDS EASTERN EUROPE by Professor Anton Caragea
On 17 of July at European Council on International Relations was published a letter signed by 22 former presidents, intellectual and policy makers from Central and Eastern Europe announcing their mistrust in the new rapprochement policy with Russia . Regarding the abandon of the missile shield in Poland and Czech Republic the letter pointed out: “Abandoning the program entirely or involving Russia too deeply in it without consulting Poland or the Czech Republic can undermine the credibility of the United States across the whole region”. Now Joseph Biden has toured the region proclaiming the US new vision for Eastern Europe...read more
NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT RENAISSANCE: A CHANCE FOR A MULTIPOLAR WORLD ? by Professor Anton Caragea
In 1955, when the founding fathers of Non Aligned Movement (NAM) held their first meeting in the now famous Bandung Gathering, the role of Non Aligned Movement seemed to be clear: prevention of a new war. In a world already savagely ravaged by the Second World War, URSS and United States already embarked in a new kind of military and political confrontation: Cold War. So the role and the place of a non-aligned movement where clear and easy to carve: keeping the two opposite blocs in equilibrium not allowing for the cold war to become a nuclear war. After the fall of the communism and dissolution of Warsaw pact in 1991 the Non Aligned Movement seemed to be out of place in a world that had promised to be without military or ideological confrontation. Many had claimed even the end of the organization in a post-Cold War world. After the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq that presented clear the risk of a unipolar world ,now a new need is offering to Non Aligned Movement a new chance to play a historic role: the search for a multipolar world...read more
CAUCASUS THE POWDER BARELL OF EUROPE?
Caucasus is looking like a fragile region, with authoritarian regimes, economic corruption and under an ongoing battle for influence and power between Russia, United States, European Union, Israel and Iran. Will be Caucasus the new powder barrel of Europe...read more
EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATION MEETING IN VIENA
Between 15-16 august 2009 in Viena was held the first meeting of EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATION ( EUCIR) the leading EU think tank. The meeting was concentrating in shaping the future of the organisation for the next year 2009/2010 and to establish the main goal of the organisation. Professor Anton Caragea has read the manifest of EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATION : RISE UP EUROPE, a call for an independent European diplomacy and voice...read more
EUROPEAN DELEGATION TO SYRIA
Between 22 and 28 of May 2009 an European political and media delegation chaired by Professor Anton Caragea has being invited for a visit in Arab Republic of Syria...read more
EUROPEAN DELEGATION TO REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON TAIWAN
In October 2008 an European Delegation from Romania , chaired by Professor Anton Caragea has visited the Republic of China on Taiwan to asses the possibility for closer economic, cultural and political ties...read more
EUROPE NEEDS A NEW HELSINKI ACCORD
The conflict in Caucasus has proven that the European Union is unfortunately still in need of a coherent foreign policy. In March 2003, after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, EU member states decided in Brussels that never again would they be caught wrong-footed by international events. The result of this decision was the creation of the post of EU High Representative on Foreign Policy and the naming of Javier Solana as the czar of EU foreign affairs. But the Caucasus conflict proves that EU is still uncertain about its role in European affairs...read more
OPEN LETTER TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
We have written this letter because, as Central and Eastern European (CEE) intellectuals and former policymakers, we care deeply about the future of the transatlantic relationship as well as the future quality of relations between the United States and the countries of our region. We write in our personal capacity as individuals who are friends and allies of the United States as well as committed Europeans...read more
HONDURAS COUT D`ETAT by Professor Anton Caragea
At the early hours of 28 of June 300 military enter the Honduras Presidential Palace, disarmed the Presidential Guard and arrest the President Manuel Zelaya. The President was quickly exiled to Costa Rica while the landlords Parliaments appointed a poppet president , one of the richest men in the country. The first word of the deposed President: this is a coup d’état not only against Honduras but the world? Is he right?...read more
TAIWAN: AN OPPORTUNITY THAT MUST NOT BE WASTED! interview by Daniel Negut
Basically, in the discussions held in Taipei with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrew L.Y .Hsia we came quickly to a common understanding that Romania and Taiwan may be the point of entry, for each other, in the European and Asian markets! This opportunity does not come too often and Taiwan gives us a generously offer.
The rest of the Far East is a new destination, but also extremely important for our diplomacy: from now on, Bucharest is opened to a new direction! On his visits in South Korea and Japan, the President of Romania, gave a clear signal: the Far East has ceased to be too distant for Romania. For now, economic and political relations will be developed within this space...read more
POPE VISIT TO HOLY LAND
Pope visit to Holy Land (Jordan, Israel, Syria and Lebanon) marks an important step toward building a new relation between Christianity and Islam. After the last 10 years when the war in Iraq and the tensions between Israel and Palestine had soured relations among Christian and Islamic community the two weeks visit of Pope Benedict XVI promise to transform radically this views of clash of civilizations...read more
SYRIA THE KEY FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
In only three month the US Middle East envoy, George Mitchell made two visits to Damascus prompting the world attention to the new place of Syria in the region. What is the new role of Syria in Barrack Obama vision of peace for the Middle East?...read more
RISE UP EUROPE - MANIFEST OF EUCIR 
Between 15-16 august 2009 in Viena was held the first board meeting of EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATION ( EUCIR) the leading EU think thank.The meeting was concentrating in shaping the future of the organisation for the next year 2009/2010 and to establish the main goal of the organisation. Professor Anton Caragea has read the manifest of EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATION : RISE UP EUROPE, a call for an independent European diplomacy and voice...read more
