We were warned: "Get prepared for some games !" And it seems like the Olympics events happened a bit earlier. Indeed Monday April, 7th the flame tour stopped in Paris and the least we could say is that it has been brought out of track. Despite the €400 000 security staff, the pro-Tibet demonstrators definetely made their point in order to support the Dalai-Lama people. Will Beijing hear their claim? That is less certain...

Who said that the European Union was reduced to the “Grand States”’ directory?

 

If it is true that in the institutional arena France, Great-Britain and Germany have a major impact on the decision making process (though the new balanced voting system introduced by the reformed treaty is about to change this context of “dominating position”), the European Union remains everyone’s concern, especially for the smallest States. In opposition to the complex of inferiority that could have been generated by such a disposition, small States seized the opportunity to affirm, or even to proclaim, their small geographic specificity through sports.