Beh. The problem with military intervention in Turkey is really that Atatürk is also regarded with an almost religious reveration because of his resistance to... Islamism.
Also, with trade sanctions, it matters a lot when they are applied and when they are not. The trade sanctions we constantly put in place against Belarus for instance, I am not sure are always good. Guarding the border against refugees through visa-restrictions might even be counter-productive (my way of criticizing Carl Bildt). We are also making somewhat stupid regional and structural developments in Eastern Europe if we really find it a concern that Belarus, Ukraine and Russia have enormous power of Eastern European electricity supplies - maybe we should instead use our regional development funds to do a Frankfurt/Malmö/Denmark-like investment in renewable energies?
I also think that would be productive in Tunisia, removing nuclear technologies from the "sustainable" technologies we provide. Technically, they're a desert country, so there has to be lots of sun for instance (=me being prejudiced).
I think it also wouldn't be bad, if we feel the human rights situation in Tunisia is simply too awkward, stop praising them in the European parliament and instead put in some 5% higher tariffs on olive oil. Only thing that concerns me is that our tariffs are probably quite high to begin with, aight, because the European Union is quite protectionist when it comes to certain products and olive oil is a major export of AndalucÃa and Greece as well.
But here... Austrian OMV just made an investment of $833 million(!!!) in Tunisian oil industry. That's not a good way of discouraging a military regime. Sending some angry letters that will never get read by anyone in the Tunisian administration is also probably not discouraging them, but it might make them smile dismissively when they throw the letter in the bin. The military seems to be reacting for completely different reasons as well (since not much has actually been published in Europe about this).
Beh. The problem with military intervention in Turkey is really that Atatürk is also regarded with an almost religious reveration because of his resistance to... Islamism.
Also, with trade sanctions, it matters a lot when they are applied and when they are not. The trade sanctions we constantly put in place against Belarus for instance, I am not sure are always good. Guarding the border against refugees through visa-restrictions might even be counter-productive (my way of criticizing Carl Bildt). We are also making somewhat stupid regional and structural developments in Eastern Europe if we really find it a concern that Belarus, Ukraine and Russia have enormous power of Eastern European electricity supplies - maybe we should instead use our regional development funds to do a Frankfurt/Malmö/Denmark-like investment in renewable energies?
I also think that would be productive in Tunisia, removing nuclear technologies from the "sustainable" technologies we provide. Technically, they're a desert country, so there has to be lots of sun for instance (=me being prejudiced).
I think it also wouldn't be bad, if we feel the human rights situation in Tunisia is simply too awkward, stop praising them in the European parliament and instead put in some 5% higher tariffs on olive oil. Only thing that concerns me is that our tariffs are probably quite high to begin with, aight, because the European Union is quite protectionist when it comes to certain products and olive oil is a major export of AndalucÃa and Greece as well.
But here... Austrian OMV just made an investment of $833 million(!!!) in Tunisian oil industry. That's not a good way of discouraging a military regime. Sending some angry letters that will never get read by anyone in the Tunisian administration is also probably not discouraging them, but it might make them smile dismissively when they throw the letter in the bin. The military seems to be reacting for completely different reasons as well (since not much has actually been published in Europe about this).