I usually drop subjects when they become really popular. I don't write much about ACTA for instance, but keep informed. I didn't write much about the Telecoms package after it became popular, but was reasonably informed.Telekompaketet en annan.
Jag brukar ogilla ämnen som är populära att ta upp. Jag tappar nästan omedelbart intresset för när andra tagit upp ämnet behöver jag nog inte lägga så mycket energi på just det. ACTA var nog en sån sak. Telekompaketet en annan.
Sitter här och läser igenom Carl Bildts rapportering om Tunisien som består av... Kritik mot Ryssland!!. Carl Bildt lyckas på ett utmärkt sätt koppla ihop Tunisiens uppror med antalet barn födda i Ryssland de senaste åren.
It's not easy to know what the truth is sometimes. Or how it's communicated. In Tunisia the military is switching sides and winning the confidence of the people. The military switching sides is a sign of great distrust in the current regime and could very well make it fall. A problem with a military take-over is of course that a new military regime will take Ben Ali's place (see for instance Madagascar, Chile, Argentina, Mauretania).
I realise that I may sound slightly sarcastic about the parliament's efforts to be diplomatic when I'm picking out only the parts of Tunisian praise.
Actually the parliament has, at times, been very critical of the development of human rights in Tunisia. See for example the parliamentary debate from February 2010 where all political groups praise the Tunisian developments except Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL who say:
At my boyfriend's house we're both involved in pirate politics and have been following the Tunisian situation very closely. This means the information flow is high from every possible angle and when he's been following and updating me on the groundwork, I've been tracking the EU-Tunisia relations from 1995 forward.
Hemma hos pojkvännen har vi diskuterat Tunisien en del över de senaste dagarna. Eftersom vi båda engagerat oss i piratpolitik och speciellt situationen i Tunisien flödar informationen från alla möjliga vinklar. Jag har, i en kraftsträngning, följt Tunisiens relation till EU sedan 1995.
Major protests broke out in Tunisia following the self-immolation of a student in late December. The demonstrators are protesting unemployment and government violence, and as opposed to a previous norm of protests from spontaneous worker unions the recent uprisal seem to engaged a much larger part of the population to participate.
Not a lot of people think about it, but the evaluation of the present data protection directive consultation from the European Commission is by far one of the most important missions we've had in the past two years.
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