{"id":220,"date":"2007-12-07T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-05-01T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:41:52","slug":"double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"… double standards …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘EU External Relations Commissioner Benita <\/span>Ferrero-Waldner chided Tbilisi for a “somewhat overdone<\/em>” reaction to <\/span>the protests, which included the muzzling of an opposition television station, but welcomed subsequent steps to bolster democracy.’ (Source: reuters, December 6th, 2007)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Indeed: a very<\/em> harsh reaction by the EU to a government’s use of truncheons, batons, tear gas and rubber bullets against a peaceful demonstration.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Ferrero-Waldner praised President Saakashvili for lifting the state of emergency. Shouldn’t he have not imposed it in the first place?<\/p>\n

In addition, Ferrero-Waldner praised Saakashvili for holding early presidential elections. Shouldn’t the EU rethink whether ‘snap elections’ actually are a democratic gesture or a ploy against a poorly organised and ill prepared opposition movement?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner chided Tbilisi for a “somewhat overdone” reaction to the protests, which included the muzzling of an opposition television station, but welcomed subsequent steps to bolster democracy.’ (Source: reuters, December 6th, 2007) \u00a0 Indeed: a very harsh reaction by the EU to a government’s use of truncheons, batons, tear gas … Continue reading … double standards …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerhard-mangott.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}