End of one child policy, PRC changing more than history

China authorized all couples to have two children. A new era or a new world challenge 

by Emanuele Bonini

The central committee of the communist party of China announced that couples can have two children. The "ancient regime" of one child per family is over, but is it a good or a bad new? Of course the answer is positive. Yes, it is a good new. The system put in place by the Communist party has always been a controversial one, but there was a reason behind that so criticised birth control. How to feed all the people? And how sustainable can be a country where more and more people asks for life? In People's republic of China these questions found an answer in the family policies imposed until yesterday. Now PRC has gained a huge economic power, a social wealth capable of enlarging demands and address new needs. China can do what it coudn't do until few years ago, and this is of course a good new. Of course now the question is how sustainable will be this historical choice. This good new means world food demand will rise in time of crisis and scarcity of resources. Desertification, intensive use of land, pollution and climate have been posing a serious threat to the world sustainability. China can live the change, but could the rest of the world do the same? The historical page turned in China risks to become a bad new for somebody else. Is the world ready to feed new generations? This is the challenge governments started to deal with, and it was not a case if Italy decided to focus EXPO 2015 on this specific issue. A new reminder is now coming from the PRC.

The European disaster on migration

Neither hotspots nor political oppositions. The EU relocation mechanism doesn't work because of lack of operational measures

by Emanuele Bonini

European strategy for migration doesn't work. Practical problems were not taken into account when both EU leaders and the head of State and head of governments had to decide the relocation scheme. Forget quotas, real problems are elsewhere. Of course quotas represent a political issue, but even in case of political decision the EU plan can't work. There are not direct flight to move migrants from a place to another, agreements between Member States and airlines to facilitate boarding procedures for people with no documents are not in place, military flights are too expensive, low-cost carriers are still not involved. Basically hotspots appear as last problems to thing about. This is the situation after months of intensive political debate. Fences are there, while all the rest is missing. Greece is waiting a transfer of migrants from the Hellenic Republic to Luxembourg, but no plane took off with such passengers on board. The reason is because of no direct connection between Greek and Luxembourgish airports, and special agreements have been signed only with Aegean. That means no operators can guarantee on normal flights a reservation of seats for migrants and people who travel with them. Europe was and still is under pressure, and the need of a rapid reaction to the migration flows crisis forced all decision makers to take actions. To do something has been translated in practice as "let's show we do something", and the result is a confusion that perfectly reflects what Europe is about today.

Worrying times ahead Europe

Fear for migrants feeds nationalism all across the EU. Values and stability at stake

editorial

Fear is growing up, fear is dominating general feeling in Europe. The answer offered to the migrant crisis showed the whole continent scared by the huge amount of people coming from other parts of the world. We could say we are talking about people coming from the same Countries the western world (so the EU, as well) have always exploited, but it couldn't change anything. The political message coming from Poland is clear: there is more and more people against the admission policy for migrants tabled by the European Union, and there is no place for foreigners. Migrants have become too much, and Europe can't or don't want to help all these people. Most important, more and more Member States have fear. Polish population gave a clear mandate to decision makers. Granting an absolute majority to Jaroslaw Kaczyński and his far right party Law and Justice mean Poland has chosen a tougher path. Equality, respect and tolerance are all values at stake, and not only in Poland. Far right parties are rising up all across Europe, and national governments are acting building up fences, sending troops on the border, calling migrants to go away. Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia are against any assistance. These countries basically are against everything different from national standards. Now Poland will join this group, while in France the xenophobic party Front National is strong as never happened in history of the Fifth Republic.

We are back

More than two months without a post on this blog, my blog, is something never seen before. Even in time of very busy period I found time to spend to cultivate this personal space. So, my personal sphere has been reduced. Reduced by a new professional life which can't allow to find time to write few lines on internet. Indeed a huge change come. A new adventure for a news agency open 24 hours per day is something not easy to deal with, and there is a price to pay for such a career. Despite the (a)typical nature of Italian contracts, there is no doubt I arrived to work for a more important media compared to those where I have worked before. In time of investments - in Europe there are still those who believe in the EU investment plan - maybe this experience could be my persona investment for the future. Of course nothing is for free, and nothing has granted with no sacrifice. Just to be clear: I'm not saying a blog is a sacrifice, I'm just using it as example of a busy life. Anyway, I promise my few readers to come back writing with more regular frequency.