Well, I am off to NATO and I am going to be in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council.
What is that you may ask? Well, I have a binder full of information to tell you.

The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council is a 50 nation multilateral forum to talk about Allies and Partner countries. More or less, it is the political framework for NATO's cooperation with partner countries. Therefore, conversation about political and security issues such as Kosovo and Afghanistan are spoken about--especially if not only NATO, but partner countries are deployed (particularly peacekeeping).

Also there's 28 Allies and 22 Partner countries as stated before.

Side note, there's something called the Partnership for Peace programme where partner countries can petition the help/resource of NATO...this is done exclusively with the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council.

Nonetheless I am somewhat concerned that I know nothing about Afghanistan/Iraq.
However, please note we haven't pulled out our resources yet.

That's it for now.
There's a lot more reading I need to do before I can write something with intellectual merit on here.

Best,
Jade


France.
Same sex marriage. Score.
I found this article interesting about the rise of Islamic converts and how that will challenge France's identity. France hasn't  been super supportive of religious dress. However, if there soon becomes a  majority of eligible voters with this set cultural/religious belief--I imagine it will have an impact on the system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/world/europe/rise-of-islamic-converts-challenges-france.html?_r=0