cannot possibly return to a previous geopolitical standing, simply because Biden has made an executive decision to ‘reset’ his country’s traditional relationships with Europe - or anywhere else, either.
Turkey carries out extremely important energy projects so that it can play an essential role in the above equation such as the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Turkey to Europe, and TurkStream from Russia to Turkey and Europe.
After verdicts are reached in the cases at the first instance courts and even in the appellate and appeal stages, the process will continue with individual applications to the Constitutional Court and finally to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
In short, under the veneer of Canada’s image as a multicultural liberal democracy is the ongoing operation of structural settler colonial violences, which eliminate Indigenous people and sovereignty and replace them with settler colonists and exclusive European settler colonial sovereignty.
Ensuring continued access to these chokepoints is a critical concern for China, given the extent to which Beijing is dependent on these SLOCs for its oil imports from the Middle East and East Africa, as well as its exports of consumer goods to Europe.
If they can sell, it is at a steep discount due to sanctions, which limits Iran’s ability to tap American and European banks (SWIFT) as well as their currencies.
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On May 31, the spokesperson for the secretary general at the Council of Europe, Daniel Holtgen, stated that “nfortunately, the ‘Islam Map’ of Austria overshoots the mark, serves existing resentments and therefore has a potentially counterproductive effect.
Common Security Worries
Besides the issues that they have sometimes foisted on each other, the Maghreb countries share many other concerns like radical cross-border groups and pressure by the European Union to stem the flow of migrants.
Very soon, criticism came from the European Council, the Conference of European Rabbis, the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, Muslim Youth Austria, and many others.
However, American and European officials and a massive media apparatus continued to talk of a ‘peace process’ with little regard to the fact that the ‘peace process’ has brought nothing but war and destruction for Palestine, and allowed Israel to continue its illegal appropriation and colonization of Palestinian land.