How soon will Macron fail to meet people's expectations?

It's no secret that nowadays president Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential elections decisively as well as his party did the same with the legislative elections. The question is why and how much hopes put the French people in his promises? 

You could always argue that people are fed up with the same old rusty politicians, with their old wooden tongue speech but is this a plausible reason to unconditially surrender to a new unexperimented politician?

Macron's policies had been targeted at pushing away conservative voters, but he has also unveiled proposals to please the left as well, such as his call for better pay for teachers working in poor, socially diverse areas. He also promised to reform the pensions and welfare, key areas where the stacks are definetely against him. 

We will soon see if the general enthusiam will melt down and if Macron will join the long line of politicians who promised big and delivered very small.

Trump, Comey and commiting to article 5 in NATO

Well who would have thought? A press conference held together by US President Donald Trump and his Romanian counterpart Klaus Werner Johannis (German guy right) offered the world some answers long awaited.

First the American journalists who cared little about the conference scope and ignored the Romanian president as if he was just a decorative statue in the background started asking Trump about James Comey, the FBI director being sacked following alleged discoveries of Russian involvement in the US presidential campaign.

Then a Romanian journalist asked the blunt question everyone back here in Europe is interested in, will the US back-up any NATO country in the event of a Russian attack? Praising Romania for taking his advice and increasing the GDP percentage for military to 2% Donald Trump assured the 5th article of NATO chart will be respected and the US and entire NATO are ready to go to war is such an attack happens.

London under terrorist siege

I was talking with a friend a couple of months ago and he was always giving me United Kingdom as example on how to combat terrorism in response to the attacks in France and Germany. There is a way he argued as long as you control the islamic propaganda, keep an eye on the mosques and evict the clerics that preach violent speeches.

I wasn't convinced and I replied that the islamic propaganda is not found only in the mosques, we live in the age of information and the young Muslims can view different internet pages, listen to recorded speeches from islamists all over the worlds, browse forums, etc. Evicting some clerics from the country is not a solution and don't stop young men and women search for material on Islamic State or other similar terrorist organizations. The problem is that these men an women, often at the second or even third generation feel unwelcomed in their countries. The different set of values, the different culture make them harder to integrate with the peers in their generation, more difficult to socialize and to be accepted. Thus resentment grows and looks for someone to blame. It's incredible how many Europeans fans these terrorist organization get to have from simply the inability of the Western society to integrate these youngsters and offer them better opportunities and ideals.

I didn't speak to my friend recently but I take it he has changed his mind.