Translation of "Spirale de la mort avant extérieure " (French → English) :

forward outside death spiral | FODS | love spiral

death spiral forward inside [ forward inside death spiral ]

death spiral backward outside [ back outside death spiral ]

backward outside death spiral | BODS | death spiral

forward inside death spiral | FIDS | life spiral

When General Roméo Dallaire spoke eloquently and forcefully before the slaughters in Rwanda and Burundi saying they would spiral out of control and result in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people, we did nothing.

9. Expresses alarm at the increasing number of deaths, particularly at sea, and of human rights abuses in the course of irregular migrants’ attempts to enter the EU; requests that the Commission consult Parliament prior to the conclusion of any agreement between Frontex and a third country; insists that these agreements must provide for stringent safeguards to ensure full respect for human rights standards, including with regard to return, joint patrolling, search and rescue and interception operations; draws attention to the reports drafted by international organisations (the Council of Europe and the UN), the Fundamental Rights Agen ...[+++]cy and the European Ombudsman relating to the impact on migrants’ rights of the management of the EU’s external borders and to the observance of fundamental rights by Frontex; calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to take swift action to halt violations of migrants’ rights, which have on occasion led to deaths, and urges that the EU and its Member States fulfil their international obligations; urges, therefore, that the EU investigate any reports of mistreatment of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers at EU borders by Frontex, notably as regards detention conditions; emphasises that – especially given the particular instability and political turmoil in the MENA region – the relevant services of the Commission, the EEAS and specialised EU agencies need to coordinate their efforts as part of a holistic approach to the issue of irregular migration targeting Member States, in a manner that is consistent with European principles and values, and with EU efforts in the region and the wider southern neighbourhood aimed at stabilisation and democratisation within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy / Common Security and Defence Policy;

– (DE) Mr President, the brilliant foreign-policy strategist Franz Josef Strauss, whose death exactly 20 years ago we shall be commemorating on 3 October this year, always said that if you button up your jacket wrongly you have to undo it again in order to button it up correctly.

To add another layer to this difficult job by trying to guess before they even begin writing what the government of the day will consider excessive or gratuitous violence, or whether a bureaucrat who functions completely outside the creative process might deem the sexuality portrayed as educational enough to pass muster feels like the kiss of death.