Both French Presidential Candidates point at "Humanism" in crucial times...
Thursday, 14 April 2022

*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Starting by a Europe related speech in Strasbourg, immediately followed by another on Foreign Policy/Diplomacy in general from Paris, Both 2 Finalist Presidential Candidates in France, incubent Emmanuel Macron and Challenger Marine Le Pen, made particularly Loud and Strong References to "Humanism", at a Crucial Moment for Humankind in Europe and the World.
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- Macron chose to Coclude a Speech on Europe, at a gathering of Local Fans near Strasbourg's Cathedral (withOut any reference to Christianism, but only to various "Worships") and Rohan Castle, by refering to Thomas Mann's relevant Warning of 1935, (i.e. at the Rise of Nazism), and Launching a Call for "Fighters" willing to Struggle in order to Defend Humanism via the EU.
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- Marine Le Pen prefered to Start her Speech on French Diplomacy, at a Press Conference for Foreign Policy Journalists in Paris' Salon Hoche, by refering to Charles de Gaule's Historic claim of 1941 in London, that France becomes Great when it Fights for Freedom in the World, (as reminds also a Statue at Champs d'Elysee Avenue, between the Foreign Ministry and Elysee Presidential Palace), adding that she believes that this includes "Christianism, Humanism, and Enlightenment".
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In Fact, Macron had Skinded among the most Topical Issues, just after the 1st Round of this Election, between the Deadly Virus' Pandemic, (with its EpiCenter Twice in Europe), treated Separately at Nearby Mulhouse, in a Lower tone, and specific European Issues, where he Criticized mainly Russia, but also Hungary, (a Common point being Nowadays the protection, or not, of Human Genome from Manipulations, possible with some Fake "Vaccines" or by Artificial Fabrication of Children by Technocrats' Labos bypassing Natural Births on LBGT pretexts, prohibited by those 2 Countries' National Constitutions, after Recent Popular Referenda, and excluded even by ECHR). He made a Solid Plaidoyerie in favour of the past and evolving EU, but withOut adding new projects at the Horizon.
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Marine Le Pen, After previous declarations on People's role and Direct Democracy via Popular Referenda, including on Changing the way to organise "our Beautiful Europe" while Staying Inside it, focused now on Foreign Policy and pleaded for "Security" Links with Russi, instead of slipery slope 'CoBeligerence' (by Risky Weapons tp Kiev regime). In addition to Droping VAT on First Necessity items, in order to Help Poor People, added to Support for SMEs, she also promised to Stop the Fake "Vaccines' Pass", Imposed by Macron for several Activities of Citizens, and even to ReIntegrate all those Health Workers Fired fom their Jobs for Hesitating to get 4 Fake "Vaccines", as well as to Reimburse all their Confiscated Salaries, (as she added at a Popular Meeting later in Avignon and elsewhere, lively applauded [UPDATED]).
They faced Both some Bullying:
- Macron was pursued in Strasbourg by a Group of People linked to "Melancon" Leftist Political Leader, (3rd in 2022 Presidential Elections' initial round, but 1st in this City !), whose Fans intend to Abstain at the 2nd Round in Majority, and Only 1/3 Vote Macron or Marine Le Pen, according to Polls, while he aims to Challenge the Leadership at the forthcoming Parliamentary Elections on Summer 2022.
- Marine's Press Conference for Foreign Policy Journalists was Disrupted by a Mini-Jupe wearing so-called "Ecologist" who branded a provocative Photo with Putin, placed in a "Loving" Heart big paper, reportedly Wounding even a Security Policeman, while EU Parliament's Legal Service Re-launched an Old Accusation about alleged "Embezlement" for her MEPs using their EU Income also for their National Political duties, (etc)...
Due to a Reluctance by the Out-Going French President, until now, Not Any Public Debate, even the slightest, could ever take place between the 2 Front-runners, who, therefore, were obliged to Limit their Public Dialogue Only to 1 Televised Meeting on 20 April, just at the Eve of the Crucial Final Vote for a New President on April 24. Therefore, Direct Exchanges were Inexistant until now, Marine spoke practicaly alone to Jouirnalists, and she kickarted a Dense Series of Popular Meetings and specific Press Conferences trying to catch up.
Different from 2017, by the Fact that a Majority of Succesful Left Candidate Melancon's fans now intend either to Abstain or Vote Marine at this Final Round, while a New Party of the Right, led by Zemmour has Also clearly pronounced for an End to a too long Division of the Right, deciding to Support her (See; http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/zemmourchangeinfrebchelectionx.html), as well as, it seems, Most among Record-High Abstentionists, this New Situation of 2022 appears Able to eventualy lead towards Different Final Results this time, (even if Macron's grif over the Mediatic and Political Establishment looks Still intact, Boosted by a 2027 Financial EU Deal)...
+ Added to that, Current 2022 Fears for Larger Repercussions of a War in Europe, weakened by Brexit and a growing Gap vis a vis Key Central-Eastern Countries' National Policies, while being already Twice Epicenter of a Deadly Virus' Pandemic, at the Same Time with Dangerous limitatations to Fake "Vaccines" and larger Exposure to Technologies and Interest Lobbies also Affecting the Human Genome more than ever in History, obviously push Humankind at Extreme Pressure.
=> What could Real "Humanism" (Comp. Supra) do here, at an Important Country like France, Key for the Historic European Continent, and at a Crucial Moment for Humanity ?

(Muse ; Compliance 2022 : -"We got a War for you"...)
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People in Europe and the World expect from CoE to make a succes of its "Monitoring" for Human Rights and Democracy, despite difficulties, said Finland's President Tarja Halonen to "EuroFora" at a crucial moment for the mecanism built 15 years ago by the paneuropean organization which celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2009.
Halonen, known as "Mother" of CoE's "Monitoring" mecanism, a long-time MEP and former Foreign Minister before becoming Finland's President, holds a long experience in the mattter, after also serving twice as CoE and EU Chairwoman in the past. That's why she is well placed to judge how CoE's "monitoring" should deal today with some crucial issues of importance both to CoE and to the EU.
The move came just a Month before a crucial, last visit to Turkey, scheduled for June, by the President of CoE''s "Monitoring" Committee, Ukranian MEP Serge Holovaty, to finalize his Report on Ankara, the CoE Member State with the longest Monitoring procedure. From its results depends its overall credibility.
This is a Test-case, because, in fact, it's in order to avoid Sanctions threatened against Turkey by a CoE's Assembly's April 1995 Resolution for grave Human Rights violations, Democracy gaps, the continuing Military Occupation in Cyprus, the unresolved Kurdish problem, Aegean differend with Greece, etc., that MEPs decided to create, for the 1st time on April 1996, a "Monitoring" proces, allegedly destinated to check, without excluding Countries who did not fulfill all CoE's standards.
In the Past, the obliged withdrawal of Greece's Military regime and of its "Civil" cover-up out of the CoE had helped bring back Democracy in 1974. But, on the contrary, since April 1996, the idea was to "monitor" Human Rights' respect while keeping most concerned Countries inside the CoE. After Turkey's oldest example, this was extended also to several former "Eastern" European Countries, even if CoE's Assembly has imposed to some of them (fex. Ukraine, Russia, etc., after Belarus, Serbia, etc) various "Sanctions", that Ankara always avoided. Curiously more succesful even than .. USA itself, (a CoE "Observer" since 1995), which has been at least threatened with sanctions some years ago..
EU-effects of CoE's Monitoring process became obvious between 2001-2008, since the "closure" of this procedure, when CoE felt that a Country had met most of its Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law obligations, (i.e. the "Copenhagen Criteria" for the EU), helped trigger Negotiations with the EU for "Accession" or other closer relations : This occured already before the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargements to former "Eastern" European Countries, as well as for the commencement of "accession" negotiations with Croatia, and of "open-ended" negotiations with Turkey in 2005.
But a stricking new development are Holovaty's recent findings that on core Human Rights issues as Torture and Freedom of Expression, Turkey, even "5 Years after" CoE closed its "Monitoring", back in 2004, inciting EU to start accession Negotiations in 2005, still presents grave problems.
His findings are of crucial importance after a 2008 CoE Resolution called, "if need be", to "seriously consider the possibility of Re-Opening the Monitoring procedure for Turkey" : A move which might affect Ankara's controversial EU bid, since EU Accession Negotiations are based on the Hypothesis that the Candidate fullfils the "Copenhagen Criteria" (See above)..
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Holovaty expressed his will to check "Matters still Outstanding" and those that he "didn't have an opportunity to discuss" at an earlier visit this year, "in order to discuss the more complex issues in greater depth", at his forthcoming New Visit to Ankara, before the December 2009 EU Summit. This is all based on the 2004 CoE Resolution which stresses that, CoE "will continue.. post-monitoring Dialogue with the Turkish authorities,...in addition to a 12-points list,..and on any Other Matter that might arise in connection with Turkey’s Obligations as a CoE member state".
CoE's Resolution also asks from Turkey "to secure the proper Implementation of Judgements, particularly in the Cyprus v. Turkey InterState case", of 2001, which concerns also the plight of many Hundreds of MISSING People. It adds Turkey's obligations to "execute" ECHR's Judgements in the Loizidou case,..and in particular adopt General Measures to avoid repetition or continuation of Violations found by the Court" to the detriment of Refugees.
Nevertheless, Holovaty said to "EuroFora" that "MISSING" persons,"might be included" and cannot be excluded, but he has yet to examine the situation "to find out which issues will be raised" to the Turkish Government.
Therefore, "EuroFora" asked Halonen, as the Historic "Mother" of CoE's Monitoring mecanism, if she thought that, "whenever there are grave Human Rights Violations, as fex. "MISSING" persons, attested even by ECHR's judgements, they should be always checked by a Monitoring process. Or could they be forgotten ?"
- "We (CoE) must be, at the same time, Fair, Realistic, but not in the mind that "now we have Forgotten", etc., replied to "EuroFora"'s question Halonen, speaking as a matter of general principle.
- "When we think of those People that are suffering from the lack of Democracy, of Human Rights, and of the Rule of Law", "we should find a base on how to deal with the (Monitoring) system more rapidly"', she stressed.
- "Sometimes it's very difficult to combine Transparency and Effectivenes together, particularly in this specific case", she went on to say. But, "I have not found a (CoE Member) Country who could be insensitive in this sens", Halonen answered concerning grave Human Rights violations attested by the ECHR.
- "I have no ready-made answer. I have the expectations that you, in the CoE, will, step by step, find the different types of the monitoring systems."
Also "because this is a part of the UN's Post-Conflict system, (fex. when it comes to Cyprus' MISSING persons), and it's a more Global system". So that, "If we make a succes in Europe, the others will follow", throughout the World. "But they expect that we (Europe) are this opportunity, this Opportunity to make a Succes", Halonen concluded.
In addition, she advised to extend CoE's Monitoring to all its 47 Member States, "because, as long as we hear that, all these monitoring systems are "OK for the neighbor, but not for me", "it's very difficult" to understand. Something which could make easier to Compare...
Finnish MEP Jaako Laakso, former CoE Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories of Cyprus and one of the 5 Signatories of the Historic CoE's call to create the "MONITORING" mecanism since 1996, was more specific : - "We (CoE Assembly) have to find a way for the issue of Cyprus' MISSING People to be better followed", he stressed, anouncing his intention to "speak to Mr. Holovaty" about that. "There might be also other ways", added Laakso.
- The 2008 "Year had been a very Bad one for Turkey with regard to Human Rights in general, and Freedom of Expression in particular", denounced, meanwhile, Holovaty's preliminary Post-Monitoringh Draft Report by Holovaty, published by the CoE on April 2009.
"Amnesty International believes that freedom of expression is not guaranteed given the various articles of the Criminal Code that restrict it. .. "For example, 1,300 Websites are said to have been closed down by the (Turkish) authorities in 2008" ! While "the new Turkish Criminal Code was used to bring a total of 1,072 proceedings between June 2005 and April 2008, and led to the conviction of 192 people", for expressing views. "Representatives of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, which specialises in Kurdish affairs, ..complained about Numerous Attacks on their Freedom of Expression ...as was everyone who advocated a settlement to the question by means other than the intervention of the army" "According to their figures, 19 Newspapers had been suspended 43 times between 4 August 2006 and 4 November 2008" !...
Moreover, on 2008, CoE's "Ministers adopted its 4rth Resolution on the execution of the judgments of the ECHR, ...and outstanding issues regarding 175 Judgements and decisions relating to Turkey delivered between 1996 and 2008... concerning Deaths resulting from the excessive use of force by members of the Security forces, the failure to protect the right to life, the DIisappearance and/or death of individuals, Ill-Treatment and the Destruction of property". CoE's " Ministers urged the Turkish authorities ...to ensure that members of Security forces of all ranks can be prosecuted without administrative
authorisation" for "serious crimes". Holovaty reminded.
"Nonetheless", Holovaty heard anew of "Several cases of Violence committed last year (2008) by the (Turkish) security forces". Amnesty International speaks of Many Cases of ill-treatment and Torture in the prisons and by the police". "Including, fex."'the death of Engin Ceber, a young man of 29 who died on October 2008 as a result of the TORTURE allegedly inflicted on him by police officers, prison staff and members of the gendarmerie. He was part of a group of people arrested on September 2008 during a demonstration and Press Conference in Istanbul'. Proceedings against suspects are "on-going" in this case.
- " I therefore noted an Obvious Contradiction between the Government’s stated “zero tolerance” policy.... of Torture and other forms of ill-treatment, and the different testimonies given", denounced CoE's Rapporteur. Turkish "authorities must make considerable efforts to guarantee that proper investigations are carried out into allegations of abuses by members of the security forces and that perpetrators are effectively punished" "In this respect, I have requested detailed Statistics on the number of Investigations, acquittals and convictions in cases involving allegations of abuse in order to show the positive impact of the measures taken to date", Holovaty said, repeating a permanently unsatisfied CoE's demand to Turkey since a Decade...
- "The Political Crisis that shook the country in the spring of 2008 highlighted the Weaknesses of the (Turkish) Constitution", which comes from the Military regime of 1982, "and the Urgent Need of Reforms", stressed from the outset CoE's Rapporteur in 2009. In particular, "the ...Democratic functioning of state institutions, including the independence of the judicial system, are crucial", he observes.
But, "the Electoral system and the ways in which it is circumvented do not appear to give those elected complete Legitimacy, and tend to pervert the course of direct universal suffrage", denounces Holovaty, observing that, even 5 Years later, Turkey did not yet change the 10% nationwide Threshold for a party to take any seat, which is "far higher" than the "3%" maximum in Europe and already condemned as contrary to European Standards by the CoE.
+ Moreover, EU Parliament's 2009 Report on Turkey, drafted by Dutch MEP Ria Oomen-Ruijten and adopted in Strasbourg on March, expresses "Concern over the Failure of the (Turkish) Judiciary to prosecute cases of Torture and Ill-treatment, the Number of which is Growing". EU also "is concerned about continuing Hostility and Violence against Minorities" in Turkey. It also "calls on the Turkish Government to launch, as a matter of Priority, a Political Initiatve favouring a lasting Settlement of the Kurdish issue, (while "condemning violence.. and terrorist groups"). EU "regrets that No progress has been made on establishing full, systematic Civilian suprevisory functions over the (Turkish) Military".
The final results of Holovaty's 2nd and last visit to Turkley will be known later this year, and, at any case, before EU's December 2009 Summit.
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