H.E. Ion JINGA, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative Council of Europe.
When I was a teenager eager to
discover the world, I learnt the Morse alphabet for remote communication. In
the Morse code, the emergency signal is an unbroken sequence of three dots /
three dashes / three dots – the equivalent for the letters “SOS”.
Being often associated with the words “save
our souls”, SOS indicates an imminent crisis and the immediate need
for action. Last week, on the eve of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, many people had that feeling of impending crisis.
In August 2015, when I first met the UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon, he told me: “You arrived in New
York at a very interesting time, because the tectonic plates of geopolitics are
starting to move”. Ten years later and seen from the Council of Europe in
Strasbourg, I realize once again how right he was. In “About Democracy and
Industrial Revolutions”,…
