Statue of Europe Commission Européenne Bernard Romain
inauguration Statue de l'Europe Unity in Peace de la Commission Européenne à Bruxelles ( quartier Européen: Square Van Maerlant)
Bernard ROMAIN Statue de L’Europe .Commission Européenne
L'artiste Bernard Romain est né en 1944 pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Profondément marqué depuis sa naissance il porte un intérêt majeur pour l'Union Européenne pacifiée. Après avoir perdu temporairement la vue dans son atelier Parisien il s'intéresse à ce handicap. Il décide alors de monter un atelier avec des déficients visuels et réalise un monument pour L'union Européenne. Il voulait montrer ainsi que handicap n'était pas un facteur d’exclusion .
Des mains de couleurs différentes entrelacées représentent les différents drapeaux de la communauté européenne, mais aussi les hommes de tous les horizons venant pour porter dans une union Fraternelle ce globe aux couleurs d'une Europe enfin unie , surmontée d'une colombe de la Paix.La sculpture « L'unité dans la paix » porte un message universel de fraternité, de tolérance et d'espoir. Élaborée en résine de polyester, elle a une hauteur de deux étages et pèse plus de 800 kg.
Inaugurée sous la présidence de Romano Prodi, par la commissaire de la Culture Mme Viviane Reding, le vice-président de la C.E., M. Neil Kinnock et fut placée au cœur du quartier européen de Bruxelles en 2003 - une année consacrée aux personnes handicapées et à l'élargissement de l'Union à l'est .
Au vu des des nombreux conflits violents qui persistent dans le monde l'artiste particulièrement sensible aux événements qui touchent la planète rappelle l'importance de sauvegarder l'harmonie et la paix dans le monde . Désormais l'artiste a déjà imaginé d'autres projets pour se faire entendre et diffuser son message.
The European Union's Roman Empire
Is the European Parliament Tower in Strasbourg modeled on the Tower of Babel, the Coliseum in Rome, or both? Why was Rome called 'the Eternal City'? Who was the first Eurocrat, who drafted the Treaty of Rome and decided where it would be signed? What did he say about reviving the Roman Empire? Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, shares the inside story.
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Belgium: Bruges and Brussels
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WRAP UN and EU reax to declaration of Guinea coup after dictator's death
New York, US
1. Wide of Deputy Spokeswoman for the UN Secretary-General, Marie Okabe, walking to microphone
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marie Okabe, Deputy Spokeswoman for the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon:
The Secretary-General has learned of the death of the President of the Republic of Guinea, General Lansana Conte. He wishes to extend his sincere condolences and respect to the family of the late president and to the government and to the people of Guinea as a whole. He acknowledges President Conte's longstanding commitment to the maintenance of peace and unity in Guinea and to the promotion of stability and regional cooperation in the Mano River Basin. He commends in particular Guinea's generosity in hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring countries. At this time of transition the Secretary-General stresses the need for a peaceful and democratic transfer of power in accordance with the constitution. He calls for calm and urges the armed forces and all stakeholders to respect the democratic process.
3. Wide of Okabe leaving
4. Cutaway of reporters
Brussels, Belgium
++NIGHT SHOTS++
5. Pan right of European Commission building in Brussels
6. Close up of EU flag
7. Set up shot of Mark Gray, European Commission spokesman
8. Close up of European Union flag sign
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mark Gray, European Commission spokesman:
This is an evolving situation and we are watching it hour by hour. What we can say at this point is that the death of the President Conte has led to a series of statements suggesting that the military has seized power and dissolved the democratic institutions. We are seriously concerned by the situation, we call on all those involved, both military and civilian to come together, to work together, to restore those democratic institutions and to ensure that fundamental freedom and rights are respected.
10. Close up of Gray's hands
11. Wide of European Commission sign
STORYLINE:
A military group seized broad control of the airwaves in mineral-rich Guinea and declared a coup on Tuesday after the death of the West African country's dictator, who was one of the continent's last living strongmen.
The turmoil raises the prospect of violence flaring in a region where neighbours Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Liberia all have been devastated by years of war.
In New York the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, called for calm.
In a statement read by Marie Okabe, Deputy Spokeswoman for the UN Secretary-General, Ban stressed the need for a peaceful and democratic transfer of power in accordance with the constitution.
Okaba said Ban urges the armed forces and all stakeholders to respect the democratic process.
In Brussels Mark Gray, an EU spokesman, also called for fundamental freedom and rights to be respected.
A group calling itself the National Council for Democracy began announcing its takeover on state-run radio and TV just hours after long-time dictator Lansana Conte's death was made public.
The coup leader, who identified himself as Captain Moussa Camara, said presidential elections would be held within 60 days, but that an interim president and prime minister would be appointed.
Coup leaders were meeting on Tuesday evening at the Alpha Yaya Diallo barracks to decide which of them will head the interim government, according to Aboubacar Sompare, president of the National Assembly.
Dozens of armed soldiers were seen heading toward the prime minister's office inside the country's presidential compound on Tuesday, although their allegiance was not immediately apparent.
He was one of the last members of the so-called African Big Men who came to power by the gun and resisted the democratic tide sweeping the continent.
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WWI's unsung Chinese heroes commemorated with statue in Belgium, 100 years later
The statue depicts three laborers doing the most common jobs for them in the battlefields -- carrying shells, digging trenches and evacuating wounded soldiers.
Chinese, Belgian and Flemish anthems were sung for the victims at an inauguration ceremony attended by officials, diplomats, journalists and local residents.
Wreaths were laid in front of the statue by mayor of Poperinge Christof Dejaegher, Chinese Ambassador to Belgium Qu Xing and British Ambassador Alison Rose, among other Chinese and Belgian dignitaries.
United Europe Is Near - Churchill (1949)
Full title reads: United Europe Is Near - Churchill.
The Guildhall, London.
GV interior of Hall (1st 7ft. for super title)
CU Winston Churchill, leader of the Conservative Party.
GV Crowd applauding. CU The Ambassador, Netherlands applauding.
MV Back view Mr. Kappeyne Van De Coppello presenting the Grotius Peace medal to Churchill. He shakes hands with him Churchill stands admiring the medal
LV GV dignitaries on platform applauding.
CU Mrs Clementine Churchill. CU Churchill on dais. SV Churchill speaking on the Importance of Regional groupings i.e. the Western Union. Cut in shot of Mary Soames (nee Churchill).
LV Churchill walks away from dais amid applause sits down and leans over and talks to Mrs Churchill.
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Taiwan: Protesters 'protect' Chiang Kai-shek memorial on anniversary of the 228 Incident
On the 70th anniversary of the 228 Incident, scores of Taiwanese nationalists rallied outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, in Taipei on Tuesday, after reports emerged that students had tried to dismantle the statue to the general on their Xinzhuang campus.
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Ceremony to mark anniversary of Baltic Way protest
(23 Aug 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Soldiers holding Baltic states flags (Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia)
2. Close of soldiers
3. Wide of Independence Square
4. Lithuanian flag being raised by soldier
5. Close of Estonian flag being raised
6. Cutaway orchestra playing
7. Low angle shot of the three flags
8. Soldier with torch
9. Tracking shot of people clapping
10. Torch being handed over to scouts
11. Wide of parade
12. Mid of parade
13. Scouts walking holding torch
14. Lithuanian women wearing traditional dress
15. Wide of parade passing by Parliament
16. Mid of parade by Parliament
17. Scouts take torch through crowd
18. Prime ministers of the Baltic countries during ceremony (in order from furthest away: Latvian Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, Estonian Prime Minister, Andrus Ansip and Lithuanian Prime Minister, Andrius Kubilius)
19. Cutaway cameraman
20. Prime Ministers bowing (official holding flag stands to their left)
21. Cutaway wreaths
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian Prime Minister:
Well, I think that it was a very strong symbol which was shown exactly at the time, which shows that for the Soviet empire there was no way to stay. It was very clear.
23. Kubilius being interviewed by journalists
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian Prime Minister:
This unity will bring clearly a very brilliant future for the whole region. I am convinced that the region has a very bright future, to be one of the most modern regions in Europe and this is what we were aspiring (to) 20 years ago, and what we will achieve in the near future.
25. Kubilius walking with officials
STORYLINE:
The three prime ministers of the Baltic states gathered in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on Sunday for a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the Baltic Way protest, one of the key events in their struggle against Soviet occupation.
On 23 August, 1989, millions of people joined hands across the three Baltic countries - Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania - to call for an end to Soviet occupation, forming a nearly unbroken 400 miles (644 kilometres) long human chain, known as the Baltic Way.
The event was staged on the 50th anniversary of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which carved up Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
On Sunday Baltic leaders joined together at a flag-raising ceremony in Vilnius' Independence Square, laying wreaths at the foot of a monument, as the commemorative Baltic Assembly torch was relit in the square.
Lithuanian prime minister, Andrius Kubilius, said Baltic unity would ensure a bright future for the region.
The 1939 non-aggression pact signed between German and Soviet Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov contained the so-called secret protocols under which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Central and Eastern Europe.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were given to Stalin and in June 1940 all three countries were annexed by the Soviet Union.
Apart from a three-year occupation by the Nazis, the Baltic states remained part of the Soviet Union for the next 50 years.
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Brussels Conference for the Central African Republic - Highlights
Highlights of the Brussels Conference for the Central African Republic, with Federica MOGHERINI, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Faustin-Archange TOUADÉRA, President of the Central African Republic, Jan ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, and Jan WALLISER, Vice-President of the World Bank, held on 17 November 2016 in Brussels.
Rick Steves' The Story of Fascism
In this one-hour special, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of people with it. We'll trace fascism's history from its roots in the turbulent aftermath of World War I, when masses of angry people rose up, to the rise of charismatic leaders who manipulated that anger, the totalitarian societies they built, and the brutal measures they used to enforce their ideology. We'll see the horrific consequences: genocide and total war. And we'll be inspired by the stories of those who resisted. Along the way, we'll visit poignant sights throughout Europe relating to fascism, and talk with Europeans whose families lived through those times. Our goal: to learn from the hard lessons of 20th-century Europe, and to recognize that ideology in the 21st century.
'Unity of Europe must be preserved': Polish and Hungarian presidents on Ukraine conflict
The Hungarian and Polish presidents are stating their backing for the Minsk peace deal.
The agreement aims to bring an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatist forces.
The deal was signed in February 2015 but has so far not been fully implemented. Among its conditions is a ceasefire. But Ukraine says it is still coming under attack from Russian-backed forces, including with heavy weapons which were supposed to be withdrawn.
Russia is under EU sanctions for its aggression in eastern Ukraine. Those measures come up for renewal in July with some analysts suggested the 28-nation bloc will not be able to remain unified. But Polish president Andrej Duda says Europe should not be seeking to return to ‘business as usual.'
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Mogherini chairs a meeting of the Commissioners' Group on External Action (CGEA)
UNGA - Speech by Federica Mogherini at the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for Palestine (AHLC)
EN - United Nations General Assembly - Speech by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, at the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for Palestine (AHLC) - 18.09.2017 - United nations, New York City, United States.
Federica Mogherini: Thank you, Børge [Brende, Foreign Minister of Norway], and thank you all for coming.
I think our meeting today is important for several reasons and I would like to name three of them.
First of all, it shows that the international community does not and cannot give up on peace in the Middle East. For us in the European Union, this goes without saying, this is pretty obvious, the issue is extremely close to our hearts. Not only because we share the desire of millions of Israelis and Palestinians for peace and their frustration also over the many failed attempts to get there. But also because as Europeans, we are part of the same region; so security, peace in the Mediterranean, including in the Middle East, means also security, peace and prosperity for us.
But I want to particularly welcome one element we were also discussing last time we met in Brussels, which is the strong engagement of the United States. It is good to see Jason D. Greenblatt here and it is good to see that the United States do not give up, because we are clearly facing a sort of proliferation of crises where the risk is that the oldest one gets a bit less of attention than others; and this is something that we cannot afford. That is very clear to us Europeans and we are glad to see the commitment in Washington, in the White House, to advance peace between Israelis and Palestinians, because we believe that this is indispensable also for the links that the crises, the new crises, can develop with one of the oldest conflicts – if not the oldest actually - in the region.
My message today – which is a message from all European Union Foreign Ministers with whom we discussed just two weeks ago exactly this issue – is: we need you to stay engaged, we need to give you all our support – and you have it - to help the parties find a viable solution and, first of all, a way back to serious and substantial negotiations. We are determined to work together with the United States, with the United Nations, with the Russian Federation, in the Quartet, and through other means, with our regional partners, in particular also together with our Arab friends in the framework of the Arab Peace Initiative.
The second reason this meeting is so important is because it embodies a clear objective of what we want to achieve. And this is also something we cannot have for granted. The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee is about progress on the ground, about Palestinian state-building. It is a precise goal. Six years ago, in 2011, this forum acknowledged, in its conclusions, that the Palestinian Authority was above the threshold of a functioning state in key sectors. This Committee is about doing the groundwork for reaching a two-state solution. The objective is clear and we are stating it clearly today: it has a political meaning that should not be underestimated.
We in the European Union believe that there is no realistic alternative to the two-state solution. This is not an expression of faith, this is not an ideological position, it is simply because we have been working on this file for so many years – I would say so many decades – with the Arab friends, with the parties, that we simply know that we have never heard - and realistically we are not going to hear in these weeks, or days, or months, or years to come - any other solution that both parties could possibly agree on. That is the point: it is out of realism, not out of a pre-stated position. We have not seen conditions or agreement possible on a one-state solution, not a state-minus solution, not a three-state solution or whatever else. Also on this point, the European Union is fully united and we restated this clearly two weeks ago.
This does not mean that the two-solution is easy. On the contrary, it is very difficult, but it is even more difficult to make any progress if we do not clarify among us and publicly, and with our friends on the ground, that this remains our end goal. This is the political horizon and this political horizon is what we are all working towards. (...)
And if I can paraphrase a dear friend, the late President Peres: “Not only that people do not see the light at the end of the tunnel, but that they do not even see the tunnel anymore”. (...)
Third reason – and I close - why this meeting is so important is that it illustrates very well that we must do better. (...)
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Federica Mogherini hosts the Eurochanukah event at the European Commission : speech 2015
Federica Mogherini hosts the Eurochanukah event at the European Commission : speech
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EU to launch Ukraine Visa-Free Process in April
The European Union (EU) will launch the process for approving Ukraine's visa-free access to the bloc in April, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday.
THE PROPHECY/ PROROCTWO (eng)
Donate project:
This is how individuals who had no experience in film industry at all launched a kind of
investigation concerning prophecies on allegedly special task to be performed by our nation in the
name of God. As it turned out such prophecies are many. They were pronounced by, for example, a
German mystic, Therese Neuman, cardinal August Hlond, the primate of Poland and Saint sister
Faustina, whose prophesy is the core of the entire research. It is worthwhile to quote the prophesy
written down in “The Diary” announced to sister Faustina by Jesus himself:
Jesus: I bear a special love for Poland, and if she will be obedient to My will, I will exalt her in might and holiness. From her will come forth the spark that will prepare the world for My final coming (Diary, 1732)
św. Faustina Kowalska
DIARY
Warriors Of The World...United! (Greece, Europe, World)
Μια σκέψη που μετατρέπεται σε εικόνες, εικόνες που μεταδίδουν σκέψεις και ενα τραγούδι που εκφράζει συναισθήματα...
Επειδή όμως πάντα υπάρχουν οι στενόμυαλοι, οι μικροπρεπεις και αυτοί που ψάχνονται για ευκαιρίες (!) ας δώσω ορισμένες εξηγήσεις για να αποφύγουμε τις παρεξηγήσεις:
Σε καμία περίπτωση δεν υποστηρίζεται και φυσικά δεν προωθείται η βία (η μήπως όχι;)
Οι στίχοι του τραγουδιού Warriors of the world United των Manowar χρησιμοποιήθηκαν με την μεταφορική τους έννοια (η μήπως όχι;)
Τα αιτήματα σε ολόκκληρο τον πλανήτη παραμένουν κοινά και αποδεκτά απ' ολους: Ελευθερία, Ισότητα, Αξιοπρέπεια (και Δικαιοσύνη).
Ο σωστά και υγιής σκεπτόμενα άνθρωπος, δεν θα σταματήσει ποτέ να ζητά την παραδειγματική τιμωρία κάθε υπευθυνου και να αντιστέκεται ειρηνικά και τίμια σε όποιον του στερεί το δικαίωμα άποψης και ελεύθερης έκφρασης.
Είμαστε άνθρωποι και όχι πειραματόζωα...
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Small pro-Ukrainian demo as EU leaders meet
Supporters of Ukraine gathered close to the EU summit venue in Brussels on Friday, calling on the bloc to act against Russian aggression in the country.
Demonstrators waved Ukrainian flags and chanted anti-Russia slogans.
Nearby, Ukraine's new prime minister was pulling his nation closer into Europe's orbit, signing a political association agreement with the EU at a summit of the bloc's leaders.
Friday's agreement between Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the EU leaders was part of the pact that former President Viktor Yanukovych backed out of last November in favour of a 15 billion US dollar bailout from Russia.
That decision sparked the protests that ultimately led to his downfall and flight last month, setting off one of Europe's worst political crises since the Cold War.
Meanwhile on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed bills making Crimea part of Russia, completing the annexation from Ukraine.
Russia rushed to annex the Black Sea peninsula after Sunday's hastily called referendum, in which its residents overwhelmingly backed breaking off from Ukraine and joining Russia.
Ukraine and the West have rejected the vote, held two weeks after Russian troops had taken over Crimea.
The US and the European Union have responded by slapping sanctions on Russia.
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