PAC 33 – The European Union, Protector of Human Rights France’s Security Management of the Roma and its’ Discredit in the Summer of 2010

By Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
Translation: Melissa Okabe
Passage au crible n°33
During the summer of 2010, the French government decided to redirect towards their country of origin – for the most part to Romania – the Roma camping in illegal zones in France. In return, the French government…

PAC 31 – The Radicalism of the Nobel Diplomacy The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo

By Josepha Laroche
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°31
This past 10th of December, during the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize, the winner – Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo – was absent because he is currently in his country serving a prison sentence of eleven years…