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SLANSHEI Contribution to Non-State Higher Education Sector
2018-07-01/ https://www.pressreader.com/sri-lanka/sunday-times-sri-lanka/20180701/283489321852749
Sri Lanka Association of Non- State Higher Education Institutes (SLANSHEI) is an umbrella organization formed in the year 2016 through the initiation of seven leading private institutes working for a common set of goals aimed at addressing the needs of the non-state higher education sector in the country. The seven founding members comprised of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology ( SLIIT), Colombo International Nautical and Engineering College ( CINEC), Horizon Campus (HC), Asian Pacific Institute of Information Technology ( APIIT), Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka), Aquinas and South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (SAITM). Apart from these institutes, Saegis, KIU and Gateway Graduate School have currently gained its full membership.
Since its very inception, the organization was headed by the founder President Prof. Lalith Gamage, CEO/ Vice- Chancellor of SLIIT with much vision and dedication to improve the nonstate higher education system in Sri Lanka. The 2nd Annual General Meeting of the SLANSHEI was held recently and concluded successfully subsequent to the appointment of the new office bearers for the year of 2018/2019.
This new SLANSHEI council of management includes the following members:
During the AGM, the newly elected President of SLANSHEI Prof. Nalaka Jayakody of CINEC expressed to continue the good work by the predecessor and continue to engage with the government to achieve the vision of developing Sri Lanka to be the knowledge hub in South Asia. He further mentioned that SLANSHEI will strive to take the NonState Higher Education sector of Sri Lanka to greater heights by ensuring high quality education that create employable graduates for various sectors locally and internationally.
Working Towards Achieving the Objectives
The primary purpose of SLANSHEI stands at increasing the capacity of qualitative higher education in the country as there is a growing need for higher education opportunities every year. Annually, about 250,000 students sit for the GCE AL examinations and about 150,000 qualify to enter in to state sector Universities. However due to capacity constraints only about 25,000 students out of the said 150,000, secure State University entry to undergo their studies in obtaining internal degrees. It is estimated that about 12,000 students enroll at the Open University and other State Universities to follow external and distance method of degrees. A further 11,000 students enroll to the private sector higher education institutes in Sri Lanka while about 12,000 students leave for abroad to study undergraduate degrees in various countries every year.
Considering the abovesaid statistics, there's an utmost duty upon the private higher educational institutions to deliver programmes that create employable graduates for various sectors in the Sri Lankan industries as well as abroad. Whilst strengthening the functioning and capacity of higher education institutions, and facilitating cooperation among them for effective service delivery with the view of developing all levels; the organisation's activities are also revolved around achieving its' objectives. Among them:
to provide a forum and other mechanisms for the sharing and exchange of expertise, knowledge, best practices and other resources of private higher education institutions and or those persons interested in improving higher education locally and internationally;
to foster the study and resolution of problems impacting higher education institutions and to co-ordinate a unified approach among higher educational institutions to resolve common issues;
to promote the benefits of quality private sector higher education to the Sri Lankan public and to other relevant bodies and agencies;
to provide a united and influential voice in the representation of interest on higher education policies, legislation, plans, development programs and other measures affecting the members and to negotiate with appropriate government and other agencies for continued student and institutional benefits and issues related to student registration and attendance;
to promote the non- state higher education institutions and programmes abroad in order to make Sri Lanka the 'Vision of Education Hub in Asia';
to establish and maintain linkages and collaborative relations with regional and international companies, agencies, institutions and other organizations in order to achieve the above objects. Provided however, the company shall not engage in any primary and secondary educational activities.
Success Stories of the Journey to-date
During this short period, SLANSHEI was able to achieve some great feat, especially due to its hard work and continuous dedication in improving the non-state higher education sector. The following are some of the organisational achievements for which SLANSHEI is particularly proud about:
Interest Free Student Loan Scheme 2017/ 2018
The SLANSHEI initiated and submitted a proposal to the government of Sri Lanka to expand the capacity of student enrolment at recognized nonstate higher education institutes with a government-sponsored loan scheme. Subsequently, the budget proposal of 2017 accepted this in order to provide opportunities to students who became qualified at G. C. E. A/ L's but have missed out University Entrance due to aforesaid reasons. It was made possible through the student loan scheme where a maximum loan amount of Rs. 800,000 for the entire course of study could be provided on interest free basis.
Teacher Training Project
The intention of producing qualified graduates for teaching profession through non-state higher education sector aims at offering Bachelor of Education (Hons) degrees with specializations in English, Biological Science, Physical Sciences and Information Technology. The foundation for the programme is currently being laid by the Ministry of Higher Education and all member institutes.
Since its inception, SLANSHEI has been successful in executing various programmes country-wide up to- date. The organization further seeks to increase its member institutes in its attempt to expand the services it renders to all parts of the island. The SLANSHEI further aims to spearhead in delivering quality education to the youth of Sri Lanka through their member institutes. The newly elected office bearers with the assistance of the other council members are expecting to further their aspirations and services by venturing into several identified projects in association with the Ministry of Higher Education. It is expected that these activities would certainly take the higher educational sector in Sri Lanka to much greater heights.
Promoting Sri Lankan higher education overseas
SLANSHEI also took the opportunity to travel overseas in promoting Sri Lankan higher education in those countries. The aim of this venture was to create awareness of the standards of higher education in Sri Lanka, and to promote its education structure thereby gaining foreign student registration among its members with the expectation of gaining the much needed foreign exchange to the national economy. Already, some of its members took part in a promotional tour to Nepal in July 2016 while several other tours are on the cards to carry out in the near future.
Recognition by the Export Development Board
Recently, the Export Development Board through its line Ministry, the Ministry of Development Strategies & International Trade recognized the services of SLANSHEI, and appointed some of its members as Advisors in its Advisory Committee on Professional Services pursuant to the Gazette notification dated 2018.02.21. This has given immense recognition for SLANSHEI to carry out its work as a responsible private higher educational association serving the Government of Sri Lanka at much higher level
Source at: Sunday Times Sri Lanka
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Index fund comparison inaccurate — and look how shares have grown!
Broke couple could share their house…
…or live on a boat
Beneficiaries entitled too
Paying for your rest home? Lucky you
Services for Seniors booklet tells all
QIf Smartshares are supposed to be index tracking, why has, in particular, their NZ Top 50 tracking fund, FNZ, performed significantly worse than the index?
For example, since January 2014, according to Google, NZ50G has gone up 50 per cent, but the tracking fund only 30 per cent. Surely this can't all be on account of fees?
AYou're comparing kiwifruit with feijoas — to give apples and oranges a rest. And, while we're at it, did you notice how big the fruit salad has grown?
For the benefit of others, Smartshares' share index funds — including the NZ Top 50 Fund, or FNZ — invest in the shares in market indexes.
Each fund is therefore expected to "track" — or perform pretty much the same as — their index, with a bit of slippage because of fees.
There are two key problems with our correspondent's comparison:
Indexes. The NZ Top 50 Fund tracks the NZX 50 Portfolio Index. This differs from the NZX 50 Index that you looked at, because the portfolio index has a 5 per cent cap on any one share.
Sometimes a share will creep up above that cap for a while, but that will be corrected when the index is rebalanced, once every three months.
The 5 per cent cap can make quite a difference to performance. When shares in New Zealand's biggest listed companies do particularly well, the ordinary index will rise faster than the portfolio index. When the big boys don't so as well as the smaller companies, the portfolio index will rise faster.
By the way, I think it's better to invest in a fund that follows the portfolio index. This avoids letting the sharemarket giants dominate.
Dividends. You compared a gross index, which includes reinvested dividends, with data on the performance of the fund without dividends.
The fund does, in fact, reinvest dividends received. But Smartshares also publishes the data without dividends so people can compare the fund's performance with the index without dividends. This gives the cleanest picture of how well the fund is tracking.
And data on the Smartshares NZ Top 50 Fund page, at tinyurl.com/SmartFNZ, tells us that in that comparison, the index and fund are neck and neck. The fund has grown 11.67 per cent a year over the last five years, while the index has grown 11.69 per cent.
That page also shows us that if we include dividends, and subtract fees and tax — to get the actual return made my investors — the fund has grown 15.59 per cent a year over five years. That's impressive. An investment in the fund would have more than doubled over that period.
For comparison, over the same period, QV data show that New Zealand house prices have grown at 9.4 per cent a year, while Auckland house prices have grown 13.4 per cent a year.
But I've always said five years is too short a period to judge such investments. Let's look at the data from December 2004, when the Top 50 Fund started:
The NZ Top 50 Fund grew 7.45 per cent a year.
NZ house prices grew 6.3 per cent a year.
Auckland house prices grew 7.7 per cent a year.
Of course, this is another tricky comparison. We've included dividends in the share fund's growth, so we should include rental income in house price growth. But then we need to subtract all the costs of property investment — rates, insurance, maintenance, allowance for periods with no tenants, and so on. How do we estimate all those, which vary so much from property to property?
Then there's the even trickier issue of gearing. People nearly always borrow to invest in property, but rarely to invest in shares. If you gear, you get faster growth on the money you have invested, but you also have to pay interest. How much gearing should we assume?
It's all too difficult. Suffice to say that while Aucklanders, in particular, have been absorbed in house price growth over recent years, NZ shares have also performed really well. Many people have gained from this — whether or not they realized it — in the growth of their KiwiSaver balances.
I should add that, just as there's a worry that house prices might fall, the same can be said for shares. In any market that has such a good run, a "correction" or at least a slowdown is inevitable. We just don't know when.
P.S. For our correspondent and others who want to do research, NZX, which runs Smartshares, adds, "When using Google Finance you will need to use the following codes:
"NZE:NC50C — S&P/NZX 50 Portfolio Index (Capital Index) — this index assumes dividends are not reinvested.
"NZE:NC50G — S&P/NZX 50 Portfolio Index Gross (Gross Index) — this index assumes dividends are reinvested."
QLooking at alternatives for the couple 67 and 60 who are broke, an opportunity to reduce their rental is to house share with another. Many "oldies" live in a house too big by half for their own use.
Obviously, compatibility would be high on the list, along with the sharing of electricity, water and rates. This has a lot to commend it, the rental being reduced by at least half.
AA good thought if the couple's house is reasonably big. They could take in a flatmate or boarder — possibly a foreign student.
QHearing about the folk who lost their money in later life made me think about the series you ran about people living on boats.
I participated, and several people contacted me on the subject afterwards. Some went on to chase that dream. Most who do so in New Zealand are the age of the couple in your column — with a sprinkling of grey hair.
With no capital at all, renting a house may be the only option, but with some money a life afloat with the facilities of a city marina becomes possible. As an alternative to a marina berth, living on a swing mooring presents access and safety issues, but is even cheaper.
It is now possible to live afloat for as little as $50,000 upfront, and for annual expenses on a marina with insurance and minimal maintenance for as little as $8,000 per year. There are still Auckland city marinas with spaces and berths to buy or rent.
If it is glamorous enough to have the lifestyle of living on English houseboats featured on TV recently, we can surely beat that with Auckland's warmer climate, with the rapid ferries to the city and the many attractions of the Hauraki Gulf on our doorstep.
BTW, I have recently sold my boat to live-aboards who decided to trade up to something larger. In the process some boats and berths (the two essential ingredients) became known to me. So if you have anyone who wants to explore this idea further, I would be happy to give them a pointer. But at the end of the day, they need to get their own boat survey and do their own homework.
AA different idea for adventurous people. And thanks for again offering to help interested readers — as you did early last year.
Anyone who wants to take up your offer should email me and I will forward the email to you.
QYour final correspondent in last week's column is correct in describing NZ Super as an entitlement. However, what they seem to fail to understand is that under New Zealand legislation the core benefits (Jobseeker Support, Sole Parent Support and Supported Living Allowance) are also entitlements.
Just like Super, if you fit the criteria — and they are stringent — you are entitled to the financial support.
The tone of the correspondent's last sentence implies any contribution to society can only be financial. Two of my role models were a couple with cerebral palsy. They simply ignored the prejudice and ridicule of others — which was considerable — lived a full life joining and participating in service organisations, and were always ready to help others when they saw a need.
In their time they also managed to buy a piece of land, build a house and eventually make it mortgage-free. They inspired me. Their contribution to society was one which simply cannot be measured by any monetary value.
AThanks for a thought-provoking letter.
QThere is another way of looking at having to pay for rest home care. Be thankful that you have been able to accrue significant assets in your life.
When you enter a rest home, don't stress if your savings are used to pay for your care. You are reducing the tax burden on the country. You are providing employment for the people you will be depending on for the next few years. You don't know how lucky you have been.
When I retired I had 300 days of accrued sick leave. When I was working, it was great knowing that if I had needed it, it was available. Fortunately I didn't have to use it and it was forfeited on retirement. My wife had a terminal illness and we were grateful to be able to use her 120 days when she needed to stop working.
Be thankful for what you have, but you can't take it with you.
AGreat attitude. Those who don't need government subsidies or sick leave are indeed the lucky ones.
Looking at the bigger picture, my aim is to die having paid more in taxes than I've got back in government spending. That will mean I've had a relatively easy life.
QThere is a very comprehensive publication free from WINZ, I think, that all retirees should obtain. This publication deals with all the areas we need to know about — wills, trusts, power of attorney, rest home subsidies, the forms and questions that have to be answered, prepaid funerals etc.
Maybe you can find out the name of that publication and publish it? It's a must for all retirees!
AThanks for this. I think you're talking about the Services for Seniors booklet, which has just been updated with the NZ Super rates that took effect from 1 April.
There are all sorts of ways you can get a copy.
"Hard copies are available from Work and Income service centres and Citizens Advice Bureaux. They're also given out at seniors expos and community talks etc. We provide these on request to groups, for example Grey Power," says the Ministry of Social Development.
"They are often handed out with application forms for NZ Super from service centres, although we also encourage clients to apply online. If a client asks for an application form to be sent to them, a copy of the brochure is usually also sent.
"People can request a copy of the brochure using the form/brochure request web form (available on this page: tinyurl.com/NZSeniorServices under the heading "Do it online"), over the phone, or by email to [email protected]."
Or you can download it at tinyurl.com/NZSeniors.
The Ministry adds, "The Office for Seniors hosts other information regarding legal protections on our website www.superseniors.msd.govt.nz.
Mary Holm is a freelance journalist, a director of Financial Services Complaints Ltd (FSCL), a seminar presenter and a bestselling author on personal finance. From 2011 to 2019 she was a founding director of the Financial Markets Authority. Her opinions are personal, and do not reflect the position of any organisation in which she holds office. Mary's advice is of a general nature, and she is not responsible for any loss that any reader may suffer from following it. Send questions to [email protected] or click here. Letters should not exceed 200 words. We won't publish your name. Please provide a (preferably daytime) phone number. Unfortunately, Mary cannot answer all questions, correspond directly with readers, or give financial advice.
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Dan Patrick threatens to use "nuclear option" to skirt Senate tradition and bring property tax bill to the floor
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senate Parliamentarian Karina Davis on on the Senate floor on Jan. 9, 2019.
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Faced with a stalemate on his priority property tax proposal, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday that if no deal materializes over the weekend, he plans to take the "nuclear option" on Monday and force a vote — blowing past Senate tradition to bring up the bill with a simple majority instead of the three-fifths vote typically required in the upper chamber.
For months, Patrick and his lieutenants have struggled to pass Senate Bill 2, a sweeping reform measure that would require cities, counties and school districts to seek voter approval for any tax levy increases of more than 2.5 percent in a given year, not including new growth. Needing 19 votes to bring the measure to the floor, and having, he said, 18 of 19 Republican votes in the upper chamber, Patrick had to watch the bill stall for more than two months after it was filed.
"I respect our Senate rules, but I do not intend to let a procedural motion stop the Senate from passing this important bill. If using the so-called 'nuclear option' is the only choice left to me to pass meaningful and lasting property tax reform and relief on Monday, as Lt. Governor I will lead as the public expects me to lead and exercise that option," Patrick said in a statement to The Texas Tribune on Friday. "The public doesn't care about our procedural rules. They want tax relief and they deserve it. Time is running out on our session."
Traditionally, the upper chamber starts the session by passing what's called a "blocker bill" — a bill that sits ahead of any other priorities on the Senate's ordered agenda so that bringing up anything other measure ahead of it requires a three-fifths vote, or 19 senators in support if all 31 are on the floor. Passing that bill would allow Patrick to bring a measure to the floor with a simple majority of senators, just 16.
The "blocker bill" tradition dates back at least to the 1950s.
It wouldn't be the first time Patrick upended tradition to grease the skids in the chamber he's led since 2015. That year, in his first term as lieutenant governor, Patrick lowered the threshold from two-thirds to three-fifths, allowing the chamber's Republicans to bring legislation to the floor without support from any Democrats.
Senate Bill 2, along with an identical House Bill 2, was filed in January after the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the House declared a united front in addressing property tax reform this session. But since then, facing opposition from local officials who argue the 2.5 percent election trigger is too low to accommodate their budgeting needs, it stalled in the Senate, passing the upper chamber's property tax committee in February but not coming to the floor for a vote.
Meanwhile, in the House, the once-identical bill was overhauled in committee to carve out school districts, a change that has drawn criticism from some of the lower chamber's more conservative members.
The House, which seems to have been moving the measure at a faster clip, was scheduled to debate the property tax bill on Thursday, but recessed that morning amid rumors that the Senate would instead bring up its version first. After a day of private negotiations, neither chamber brought up the proposal.
On Thursday evening, Patrick had a conference call with a handful of Senate Democrats, according to several sources familiar with the call. In that call, he informed them that he intended to force a vote on Monday, as Texas Monthly first reported on Friday.
By passing the "blocker bill," the Senate would throw out a requirement members hail as critical to the upper chamber's deliberative tradition, and further ostracize Senate Democrats already unhappy with some of their Republican colleagues, who Democrats say "ambushed" them earlier this month with a resolution declaring the U.S.-Mexico border a "crisis."
Sen. Kel Seliger, the Amarillo Republican who Patrick says has been the only Republican holdout on the bill, panned the plan as a "desperate measure." If Patrick does go ahead with the plan, he wouldn't require support from Seliger.
"Our rules provide incentive to work together well and reach consensus and compromise. You do this when you need to run over somebody," Seliger said. "It does not lend itself to the sort of collegiality and cooperation that we brag about and I think that's unfortunate."
Shannon Najmabadi contributed reporting.
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Home » Opinion » Macron Just Missed the Chance to Extend France's Nuclear Umbrella over the Post-Brexit EU
27/02/2020 - By Ivan Dikov Opinion
Macron Just Missed the Chance to Extend France's Nuclear Umbrella over the Post-Brexit EU
Such a bold and purely rhetorical move would have been highly beneficial for France, the EU, and international peace, security, and stability.
With Britain, one of pre-Brexit EU's two nuclear powers, out of the picture after Brexit Day, the other such power, France, should have seized the leadership window of opportunity, and extended its nuclear umbrella over the entire territory of the post-Brexit European Union.
Instead, all the EU got from France – and all France got from its President Emmanuel Macron – have been some hackneyed, insipid nuclear diplomacy small talk, albeit advertised as a new nuclear doctrine.
As a rule, France always aspires for European leadership, and it isn't as through the rest of the EU doesn't need or isn't looking for it. Today's EU is in at least a moderately desperate need of proper leadership, French or otherwise.
The problem is that, France, both individually and in the Franco-Germany dyad with Germany, keeps failing to live up to expectations or just keeps underperforming in that regard.
Macron's unveiling of a new French "nuclear doctrine" earlier this month, just days after Brexit Day (January 31, 2020), is one more case in hand.
Now that France has just remained the only nuclear power in the EU, the President of the French Republic missed a golden opportunity to strengthen both his country's and his own leadership position within the Union, and the overall security and survival of the entire European Union.
Both of those goals could have been easily achieved by declaring a French nuclear guarantee for the entire EU territory.
It is absolutely essential to realize that the security and stability of the EU is vital not just for its own citizens. It is vital for the entire world, and for those citizens of the world who are sick and tired of wars, corruption, embezzlement, dishonesty, and using state power for various kinds of abuses.
Given the forward thinking, general goodwill, and concrete steps and measures of the European Union in favor of promoting peace, providing mass-scale humanitarian assistance, and, what's more important than ever, fighting climate change – the EU is an asset for any decent person out there, not just for itself and its own good people.
Guaranteeing that the EU would not be blackmailed, extorted, intimidated, or even shattered to bits and pieces by malicious dictators, many of them at its very doorstep, is a huge part of allowing the EU the opportunity to make a real difference in the world of today.
It is thus of utmost importance for the EU as a whole and every single one of its member states to make sure that their Union can be defended successfully against those foreign leader who wish it ill as they are unable to understand that today's stakes are much higher for the entire humankind than anything their distorted, atavistic brains could ever imagine.
The EU must be able to stand up for itself if it is going to do anybody any good, and it is inconceivable that it would be able to do that without being a major international power with the capability to fend off nuclear blackmail, or, God forbid, to retaliate against a nuclear attack.
It's hard to say which of these three attributes is being lacked the worst by the EU, the unique supranational power of the present and the future: a nuclear capability, a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, or a full-fledged, medium-sized but fully capable Union military with sufficient power project capabilities.
None of those seem to be much in the making, which is, once again, bad news for everybody because the EU's potential for spearheading as well as realizing positive change is important for all.
However, at least with respect to the EU's lack of nuclear capabilities, France could have provided an easy fix, especially now that it has remained the only EU nuclear power after Britain's voluntary Brexit downshifting.
(That is, of course, not counting Cold War Era tactical US nukes still stationed in Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands (as well as non-EU state Turkey) which could theoretically be used by the host country under certain conditions.)
Instead of making some banal statements that the EU "cannot remain spectators" in arms races, and that "the vital interests of France now have a European dimension" (indeed! They seem to have had that for…ever), Macron should have made a highly convincing declaration that France would be extending its nuclear umbrella over all 27 member states of the post-Brexit EU.
Macron should have stated that the French nuclear arsenal would be used to retaliate against any potential nuclear attack targeting EU soil. Plain and simple.
Why would he even want to consider doing that?
First, to solidify France's leadership position within the EU, together with Germany in "Franco-Germany", and/or on its own – by using one of its top assets, the French military capabilities. (France does remain one of the three countries in the world, the other two being the United States and the United Kingdom, with arguably global power projection capabilities.)
Second, to guarantee the overall security and stability of the EU vis-à-vis any potential adversaries with nuclear capabilities or the aspiration to acquire them. Because the EU's security would to the benefit of the good people of France, Europe, and the world as a whole.
Third, to plug, at least rhetorically, some major loopholes in the security and defense of the entire West stemming from the NATO – EU discrepancy, i.e. how the memberships of these two entities do not coincide, leaving non-NATO EU members exposed. The simple act of making the EU a collective member of NATO would largely resolve that but Western leaders aren't able to reach a working consensus even on such a simple state.
Fourth, to demonstrate some European security independence from the United States of America. While NATO remains crucial to European and Western security, with perplexing figures such as Trump getting elected "leader of the free world" and "most powerful man (human) on Earth", the EU should have taken care of its own defense capabilities a very long time ago.
Last but not least, Macron should have extended the French nuclear umbrella to the entire EU territory immediately after Brexit because, while such a move would have brought all those benefits mentioned above, it would have cost him or France absolutely nothing – other than some bold statements.
If France extended its nuclear umbrella over the entire EU, it wouldn't be surrendering its nuclear arsenal to Brussels, or anything of the sort. It would just promote itself to a guarantor of EU security existence in the face of nuclear or WMD threats.
France would just declare that it would use its capabilities to strike back on behalf of the EU at any adversary in the hopefully highly unlikely scenario that such an adversary might make the mistake of launching a nuclear attack against any bit of EU territory. And it would do that regardless of NATO and/or the United States (which doesn't mean ignoring or abandoning them, of course).
Such a French nuclear umbrella for the entire EU could be just a bluff. It probably should be just a bluff. That wouldn't have mattered as long as it could just a little convincing – it would still help achieve all those beneficial goals mentioned above.
And if push ever came to shove, say, if somebody actually attacked some part of the EU which is remote from Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysee, such as Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, or Cyprus, France wouldn't be obliged to do anything anyway.
There would be no power to force it to do anything. Depending on the highly hypothetical situation, the respective French leader might decide it is a good idea for it to retaliate on behalf of the EU with its nuclear arsenal. Or it might decide that it isn't – and that wouldn't be the first time a great power wouldn't live up to a security guarantee.
But the highly hypothetical nature of such scenarios, whose development is impossible to predict, does not negate the benefits of just making a nuclear umbrella statement.
Nuclear deterrence, credibility, and nuclear relations are such a tricky business, and when there is nothing in place – in this case, at least some parts of the EU have no theoretical cover from a potential nuclear attack – even empty words are better than nothing.
And nobody would be able tell for sure if the words in question might be empty or not – let potential nuclear adversaries or blackmailers rack their brains and scratch their heads over your nuclear credibility. Let them worry about whether a nuclear-armed France would actually live up to such a nuclear umbrella promise and strike back on behalf of Lithuania, Sweden, or Greece.
And nobody can know or tell what would or wouldn't be a good idea in the event of a major nuclear war involving Europe. Perhaps France would honor such a guarantee. Or perhaps it might even find itself forced to retaliate against a nuclear attack against EU soil outside of France anyways, even though it might have failed to issue such "nuclear umbrella" guarantee (as is presently the case).
In a world where it has become crystal clear to any dictator out there, and even to some established or aspiring democracies that giving up your nukes is a bad idea if you want to survive (often literally), as I argue in detail in my book "Got Nukes, Mr. Dictator?", a French nuclear umbrella to the entire EU, regardless of how credible, non-credible, or incredible it might be, could do wonders for the security of the European Union and therefore for wider international stability.
Not to mention the tons of political capital it would have raised for France within the EU, and for Macron himself.
But instead of declaring that France would defend the EU against nuclear threats by retaliating against any potential nuclear attack against EU soil, French leader Macron went for a number of generalizing statements, and just days after Britain, the other nuclear EU power, had left the Union, (as quoted by France24: )
"[EU member states] cannot remain spectators [against a threat to the continent's collective security such as a new nuclear arms race.]
"In the absence of a legal framework, they could rapidly face a new race for conventional weapons, even nuclear weapons, on their own soil."
"[A Cold War-style standoff]… could jeopardize the peace obtained after so many tragedies on our continent", Macron said.
"[There is] the possibility of a pure and unrestrained military and nuclear competition, the likes of which we haven't seen since the end of the 1960s".
"The vital interests of France now have a European dimension."
"Let us be clear: if negotiations and a more comprehensive treaty are possible… Europeans must be stakeholders and signatories, because it's our territory" that is most at risk."
"[France has already reduced the number of its warheads to under 300 giving it] the legitimacy to demand concrete moves from other nuclear powers toward global disarmament that is gradual, credible and can be verified".
"Our independence in terms of decision-making is fully compatible with an unshakeable solidarity with our European partners."
"Why are they not ready to make defense a budget priority and make the necessary sacrifices, even as the risks are growing?"
The report further added:
"Macron also warned of the need for "a greater capacity for autonomous action by Europeans", who must step up their military spending.
Macron invited European partners to engage in a "strategic dialogue" on the deterrent role of France's nuclear capacity as the country embarks on a costly modernization of its arsenal."
All those sound like sentences that Macron might as well have not said. Or sentences he might have uttered on a sunny Paris Sunday afternoon sometime before the Brexit referendum (and before he got elected President of the French Republic), or at least during the "no man's time" between the Brexit referendum and Brexit Day. These certainly don't seem worthy of the Union's only nuclear power (which on top of that happens to be France with all of its history) right at the moment when it had just became the Union's only nuclear power.
There just doesn't seem to be anything particularly notable about Macron's new nuclear doctrine speech, not to speak of anything bold or novel.
Consider a further quote from the report:
"But he stopped short of offering to share France's nuclear deterrence capabilities, a pillar of its security strategy since implemented by Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s."
Nobody should miss the point that France doesn't need to "share its nuclear deterrence capabilities" with anybody, but it could make a difference by improving EU security by making serious declarations about extending its nuclear umbrella over the entire territory of the EU.
Instead, Macron called on EU member states to play a direct role in halting a new nuclear arms race. How are they supposed to do that? Especially considering the toothlessness largely stemming from the fact that the EU is not a nuclear power itself, and doesn't have military capabilities of its own.
There is already the nice and noble initiative of Germany and Sweden, a conference of non-nuclear states trying to abolish nuclear weapons. Which sounds swell at least in principle. Actually, not even in principle because, on closer thought, it is very likely that a world without nuclear weapons in its present form might be a lot less stable, less secure, and more war-prone.
At least for the foreseeable future, the case of nuclear weapons will be the same sad situation as it has been since they were invented: it's not about ridding the world of them, it's about limiting their spread as much as possible, while also maintain the stability of the existing nuclear balances.
The NPT, the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, has done a decent job about that so far. Not perfect but decent. In order to be bolstered, it doesn't need more lofty talks by non-nuclear states, it needs serious action and preparedness to act in order to defend it. Such as extending a nuclear umbrella to the states you are closely integrated with – that is a great tool for non-proliferation!
Nuclear weapons won't go away until they become technologically obsolete, i.e. until "conventional weapons" or new forms of non-conventional weapons are developed that can fulfill the roughly same roles of guaranteeing MAD, nuclear deterrance, and containment.
Despite his great promise at the start, Macron has already disappointed in many ways, especially as far as providing leadership for the EU is concerned. He shamefully vetoed the start of EU accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia last fall. He has joined the (Western European) chorus of bashing Eastern Europeans, and his comment about NATO being "brain dead" helped hurt the unity and credibility of the Alliance instead of strengthening them (if that was ever the intention).
Now Macron seems to be active in trying to broker a new grand bargain between the United States of Donald Trump and Russia of Vladimir Putin. Which could be great – who doesn't want good relations between those two powers? – except the way it seems to be approached could end up being detrimental to many of France's fellow EU and NATO member states. And that would very, very wrong.
Extending the French nuclear umbrella to the entire EU – in words only because there is no other way of actually doing it – immediately after Brexit Day would have been a great move by Macron to the benefit of France, the entire EU, and international peace, security, and stability.
Instead, with his neither-here-nor-there nuclear speech, Macron has disappointed once again. He did miss a great window of leadership opportunity for France, and of stability opportunity for the EU.
That's to the benefit of potential nuclear extortionists regardless of whether they already have the nukes or are striving to get them.
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We then finished off the holiday by going to Tim's parents for good food, great company and another Easter egg hunt! Asher was so excited as he ran up to the Easter egg, yelled "ball" then picked it up and threw it! Always a great time with the cousins!
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