Foreign Affairs Council: the breviary of concern
(BRUSSELS2) Part of the work of European diplomats consists in grading the concern of Europeans with regard to certain situations in the world. A little like the lovers who leaf through the daisy, the diplomats have their little breviary of concern, what we could call the breviary of the rose which goes from pale to red, passing through all the shades of anger. Country by country, it is thus necessary to proportion what is worrying, very, seriously, extremely worrying... according to a scale which always remains vague. By always keeping a possibility of evolution in this gradation.
The April 12 Council will not miss this delicate exercise. We can thus notice:
- Yemen, with an "utmost concern". Followed by Syria, where the 27 are "extremely concerned" (*).
- The attention indicator is fixed at "deep concern" for the humanitarian situation in Libya. As well as in the Middle East for the escalation of violence between Gaza and Israel, where the European is "deeply concerned".
- Finally for Bahrain, we only reach a "grave concern", while the Nagorno-Krabakh conflict, and the recent increase in tension in the region, only arouses a small "concerned".
To your dictionaries for the next tip where you will have to compete in linguistic ingenuity to qualify all the new situations around the world.
(*) text available in English only.
