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By Javier Solana - Aug 22,2020
MADRID — “The intellectual capital of the Arab East” and “the ideal place for maximum flowering and pluralism” is how the writer Amin Maalouf, one of Beirut’s most celebrated sons, has described the city as it was in the 1960s.
By Javier Solana - Mar 29,2020
MADRID — As many readers may know, I am currently hospitalised in Madrid after having tested positive for COVID-19. My recovery has been slow, but the prospects are encouraging.
By Javier Solana - Feb 22,2020
MADRID — Over the last decade, Libya has become a failed state, descending from its own Arab Spring into the coldest of winters. The fall of Muammar Qadhafi regime in 2011 did not lead to the social improvements that many had hoped for, but rather to misgovernment and misery.
By Javier Solana - Jan 14,2020
MADRID — The new year began with yet another senseless foreign-policy decision by US President Donald Trump.
By Javier Solana - Dec 21,2019
MADRID — With popular discontent erupting in numerous countries around the world, the mass demonstrations in Iraq that have triggered the fall of the country’s government have gone relatively unnoticed in the West.
By Javier Solana - Nov 24,2019
MADRID — Tackling climate change is a monumental challenge, but the leader of the foremost global power continues to wash his hands of the matter.
By Javier Solana - Oct 23,2019
MADRID — November 9, 1989, is a date my generation will never forget, and one that will forever be inscribed in human history. On that day nearly 30 years ago, the Berlin Wall fell.
By Javier Solana - Jun 20,2019
MADRID — On June 28-29, Japan will host its first G-20 summit. The initial gathering of G-20 leaders, back in November 2008, took place amid the turmoil that wracked global financial markets following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
By Javier Solana - Mar 27,2019
MADRID — Ten years ago, during his first trip to Europe as US president, Barack Obama delivered a historic speech in Prague. Much to the delight of the crowd, Obama described a world free of nuclear arms as being both desirable and within reach.
By Javier Solana - Mar 04,2019
MADRID — In 1971, world leaders as varied as Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, US vice president Spiro Agnew and Soviet statesman Nikolai Podgorny gathered in the Iranian city of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the First Persian E
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