... is affiliated with K. Haftar, said in an interview with the Alhurra television station that the LNA would be willing to accept a ceasefire without withdrawing from the outskirts of Tripoli, a condition that Sarraj has rejected.
Haftar’s
visits
to Italy and France, which took place shortly after Sarraj visited these countries, were also devoted primarily to finding ways to establish a ceasefire.
Andrey Kortunov, Malcolm Chalmers:
Upholding Stability in the Middle East: An Opportunity for Russia–Europe ...
... compared to 2016. The Spanish government somehow managed to quash yet another outburst of Catalan separatism. The single European currency demonstrated its stability, with none of the Eurozone member countries abandoning the Euro.
Elena Alekseenkova:
Italy and France: Used to Be Friends… or is it Suddenly not so?
If 2016 went down in European history as an annus horribilis, then it would be fair to call 2017 annus mirabilis. Just like in 1683, when the giant army of the Ottoman Empire was miraculously thrown ...
.... What clouds relations between the two EU founding member states? And can these contradictions be a risk factor for the entire EU?
Old Grievances: The Bombing of Libya and Economic Dictates
The conflict was yet another link in the long chain of the Italy–France confrontation that started back in the time of Nicolas Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi. Back then, in 2011, the Prime Minister of Italy was furious that the President of France had ordered the bombing of Libya having barely waited for approval from ...
... the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. In the 1930s, this position was called “cheap imperialist policy.”
France: a Very Special Way at the Crossroads
Photo: digilander.libero.it
Light multirole Aircraft Carrier "Cavour" (C550), Italy
France for a long time has been planning the construction of the so-called “second aircraft carrier” - Porte-Avions 2 (the first one is the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle). However, in April 2013, the French
White Paper on Defense and ...