{"id":12122,"date":"2010-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/will-ashton-attend-nobel-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:00:00","slug":"will-ashton-attend-nobel-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/will-ashton-attend-nobel-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Ashton attend Nobel ceremony?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The EU needs a strategic approach to its dealings with China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<em>This opinion piece was written by ICT&#8217;s EU Policy Director Vincent Metten and published by Politico on 1 December 2010.<\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dominique Mo\u00efsi last week urged all EU ambassadors to Norway to attend the Nobel prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo, this year\u2019s peace laureate. It was, Mo\u00efsi said, simply a matter of self-respect (\u201cThe closing of the European mind,\u201d 25 November-2 December).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Mo\u00efsi\u2019s measure, Europe has little self-respect. It also clearly has a long way to go before it emulates Mo\u00efsi\u2019s valuable understanding \u2013 that Europe can (and should) open up its mind to Asia without compromising its own core values. For instance, only three political groups within the European Parliament have adopted a position: the liberals (ALDE), the centre-right (EPP) and the Greens (Greens\/EFA). The Parliament\u2019s president, Jerzy Buzek, and the chairwoman of the subcommittee on human rights have; the chairman of the foreign-affairs committee has been silent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is still unclear how many EU member states\u2019 ambassadors to Norway will attend the event on 10 December. Press reports suggest only nine countries have confirmed their attendance: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden and the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Olivier Chastel, secretary of state for European affairs for Belgium, holder of the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers, told the Parliament on 23 November that the EU would be present \u201cat a level at least identical to that of the past year\u201d \u2013 a statement that, of course, does not indicate whether all member states will be represented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the Lisbon treaty, the EU now has a voice capable of speaking on behalf of its 27 member states: Catherine Ashton, the EU\u2019s foreign affairs chief. Her office says that the EU\u2019s ambassador in Oslo, Janos Herman, will attend. That suggests Ashton, who in October expressed the hope that Liu Xiaobo \u201cwill be able to receive his prize in person\u201d, will not be present<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is this enough? Would this amount to the common defence of core European values that Mo\u00efsi suggested was necessary? To show Europe\u2019s unity in the face of Chinese pressure, Ashton should attend, as the Greens recommended on 23 November. Indeed, why not institute a policy that the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief will attend the ceremony each year, regardless of the laureate\u2019s identity and his or her country of origin?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead, the EU is likely to continue a pattern evident in its dealings with Beijing on human-rights issues: it will act without unity and without a strategic approach. That is how it approaches, for example, the issue of Tibet and meetings with the Dalai Lama, the Nobel peace prize laureate in 1989.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yang Jianli, a friend of Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia, who is acting as a go-between in preparations for the award ceremony in Oslo, has described the award \u201cas a golden opportunity for the political opening up of China\u201d. It would be nice to think Europe would be present at that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems more probable that this will be another occasion when, as Mo\u00efsi implied, Europe closes its mind at a critical point for Asia, and, rather than engage Asia, opts for fear.<\/p>\n(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/will-ashton-attend-nobel-ceremony\/\">Politico<\/a>)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU needs a strategic approach to its dealings with China, writes ICT&#8217;s EU Policy Director Vincent Metten in this opinion piece published by Politico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12123,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[664],"news_tag":[665],"class_list":["post-12122","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-newstibet-europe-news","news_tag-europe-and-tibet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will Ashton attend Nobel ceremony? 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