sexta-feira, 24 de junho de 2016
TEc - Tragic split - UK goes it alone. To uncertainty...
No doubt Europe is witnessing a very sad day. One that could have been avoided if only, at European level, a lot more respect were shown by EU officials towards the common peoples of Europe.
The structures of an evolving European Union whose political goals have all but been lost to the strains of globalization, also lost touch with the very peoples they purport to serve. The defeat of Remain is as much the fallout of domestic issues as it is about the failings of the EU despite Britain's already significant aloofness.
The UK is known to be a rather peculiar case indeed since applying for membership of the Common Market back in 1963. Twice snubbed by deGaulle the island nation would finally join in 1973 to hold a confirmation referendum only just two years later.
But the unease has prevailed throughout and is best exemplified in the many Opt-outs the country negotiated on core EU policies.
To my mind, an In/Out referendum was therefore inevitable. It would always be a matter of time before widespread feelings of mistrust towards the EU - stoked by an inflammatory, parochial and irresponsible tabloid media - would find echo in the political establishment. Everything made worse by the surge in net migration into the UK especially from 2004 and 2007 when two EU enlargements took on mostly eastern european countries.
DC hardly had a choice. If he did not push for a vote somebody else would sooner or later.
Time now to move on.
Having lost on an existential issue in a high turnout vote with a relevant gap between the options left him no alternative but to step down immediately. He has done so gracefully following a very high-stakes gamble the Remain camp never made the full case for.
A new chapter opens up today for the UK and the EU.
There will be short-term pain but only time will tell whether this has been the wiser choice made by the British people.
The structures of an evolving European Union whose political goals have all but been lost to the strains of globalization, also lost touch with the very peoples they purport to serve. The defeat of Remain is as much the fallout of domestic issues as it is about the failings of the EU despite Britain's already significant aloofness.
The UK is known to be a rather peculiar case indeed since applying for membership of the Common Market back in 1963. Twice snubbed by deGaulle the island nation would finally join in 1973 to hold a confirmation referendum only just two years later.
But the unease has prevailed throughout and is best exemplified in the many Opt-outs the country negotiated on core EU policies.
To my mind, an In/Out referendum was therefore inevitable. It would always be a matter of time before widespread feelings of mistrust towards the EU - stoked by an inflammatory, parochial and irresponsible tabloid media - would find echo in the political establishment. Everything made worse by the surge in net migration into the UK especially from 2004 and 2007 when two EU enlargements took on mostly eastern european countries.
DC hardly had a choice. If he did not push for a vote somebody else would sooner or later.
Time now to move on.
Having lost on an existential issue in a high turnout vote with a relevant gap between the options left him no alternative but to step down immediately. He has done so gracefully following a very high-stakes gamble the Remain camp never made the full case for.
A new chapter opens up today for the UK and the EU.
There will be short-term pain but only time will tell whether this has been the wiser choice made by the British people.
sexta-feira, 10 de junho de 2016
TEc - Indian solar power - an overblown numerical ambition or a real target?
This is a very very tall order by any stretch of imagination. As tall as you can have them. Optimally achievable it may theoretically be but I would rather rate the target as an intentional overblown numerical ambition. Anything close to it by 2022 will amount to a staggering victory.
I will then wilfully take my hat off to all who have today upped the stakes this high.
Leading and showing the way forward is paramount for any government. I do think that the skies over India have never been sunnier too.
However, there are also some considerable odds that call for realistic optimism barring which generously set targets, if recurrently missed, are no more than discredited hollowed out numbers.
I will then wilfully take my hat off to all who have today upped the stakes this high.
Leading and showing the way forward is paramount for any government. I do think that the skies over India have never been sunnier too.
However, there are also some considerable odds that call for realistic optimism barring which generously set targets, if recurrently missed, are no more than discredited hollowed out numbers.
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