21 may 2024
EURACTIV: Europeans overwhelmingly support investment in ‘international solidarity’, survey finds
Clara Bauer-Babef: “The vast majority of Europeans, and especially Italians, are in favour of their country investing in development aid outside of EU borders,” according to a new survey published by the French Development Agency. “Amid a European election campaign marked by a rise of nationalist parties and a tendency towards protectionism, almost three in every four Europeans (72%) believe that the challenges facing the world require collective responses rather than inward-looking attitudes.”
René Wadlow: “Despite strong protests from Georgian Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and street protests for three weeks in the capital Tbilisi, the Georgian Parliament adopted on May 14, 2024, the controversial law on ‘foreign influence.’ … As Citizens of the World concerned with the role of NGOs and freedom of the press, we need to watch developments in Georgia closely.”
UN Dispatch: How Civil Society is Contributing to the UN’s Summit of the Future
Mark Leon Goldberg: “Thousands of delegates gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, last week for the UN Civil Society Conference. The gathering was dedicated to the upcoming Summit of the Future, a major UN conference in September intended to reform and revitalize the UN and the multilateral system. The Nairobi civil society conference was an important opportunity for advocates, the NGO community, and other interested parties to help shape the outcome of the Summit of the Future.”
https://x.com/federalists/status/1780668572785578345
Epoch Times: The Trouble With World Government [Negative article]
Jeffrey A. Tucker: “Dreamy, dopey, and often scary intellectuals have dreamed of global government for centuries. … The list of advocates includes people who otherwise have made notable contributions: Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Walter Cronkite, Buckminster Fuller, and many others besides. … Like all government actions, the results of a world government would end in the opposite of the promise, not peace but war, not prosperity but poverty, not health but sickness, not a better environment but a worse one.”