Government should not pick winners and losers. Public sector
bureaucracy strangles entrepreneurship and innovation. Government can
establish broad policy framework, but then should get out of the way.
Events in Ukraine mark not only the start of a momentous shift in the
region, but serve to chart the disturbing erosion of Britain’s global
clout. If only the UK government would take its lead from the approach
taken by its embassy in the heart of Kiev.
The Obama administration
was clearly taken by surprise when Russia
decided to seize Crimea by force. The real
question, however, is why Obama and his advisors thought the United States and the European Union could help
engineer the ouster of a democratically elected and pro-Russian leader in Ukraine and
expect Vladimir Putin to go along with it? This remarkable combination of
hubris and naiveté is even more striking when one considers that Washington has few, if any,
options to counter
Putin's move.
«Η προεκλογική περίοδος για τα Σκόπια άρχισε. Τις παραμονές
των προγραμματισμένων προεδρικών και βουλευτικών εκλογών η σχιζοφρενική
αιφνίδια κρίση για τη «μακεδονική» ως εθνικής
ταυτότητας έχει φθάσει στο