Europe
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2022: A Vaccination Passport. The EU Keeps Quiet Over Suspicious Documents
Surprise, surprise, the European Commission (EC) had a “Roadmap on Vaccination” ready months before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Continue reading
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UK confirms it will not align with EU chemicals agency
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that the UK will implement its own version of the EU chemical regulatory system, REACH, at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December. The UK is still operating under EU REACH until then, but has no say on the regulations. Despite… Continue reading
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Statewatch: Open letter to Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization (IMO)
The civil liberties organisation Statewatch has today delivered an open letter [1] with hundreds of signatories to Mr Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization (IMO), calling on him to revoke the Libyan maritime search and rescue (SAR) zone [2] in order to prevent the so-called Libyan Coast Guard undertaking ‘pull-backs’ of migrants to Libya,… Continue reading
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European Union Council: repression and jail for those who report the health dangers of 5G
The news that will make the international movement Stop 5G tremble comes from Brussels: the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has sent all delegates the conclusions entitled “Shaping Europe’s digital future”, approved by written procedure on 9 June 2020. Continue reading
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EU, China draw closer in post-pandemic setting
The 10th annual Strategic Dialogue between the European Union and China on June 9 can be regarded as marking the resumption of structured big-power diplomacy in the post-Covid-19 setting. It was both a symbolic and substantive event, preparing the ground for the forthcoming EU-Summit. Continue reading
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Post-Pandemic Economic Scenarios: China & Europe (Interview #2)
This past April, in the midst of the surging pandemic and collapsing US economy, I was interviewed by three sources in Europe for a US perspective on the events. The following is the second part of an interview with Polish social commentator, Konrad Stachnio, that will appear in a collection of interviews later this summer.… Continue reading
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Webinar: Walls Must Fall: Ending the deadly politics of border militarisation (TNI)
COVID-19 has become another touchstone for today’s deeply entrenched politics of militarised borders and anti-migrant racism. Leaders like Trump and Orban have blamed the virus on foreigners and to claim justification for their racist politics. But they have also been used European Union Member States of all political tendencies have used the crisis to close… Continue reading
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MI6 Might Become The CIA’s Proxy For Stopping Europe From Moving Towards Russia
MI6’s shadowy role in four separate Russia-related fake news scandals in recent years strongly suggests that it’s being groomed to be the CIA’s proxy for stopping Europe from moving towards Russia once Nord Stream II is completed. Continue reading
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Dr. Wolfgang Streeck: “We Are Being Governed by An Oligarchy”
8 June 2020 — American Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Can Europe survive the Covid-19 crisis? Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 June 2020 (08/20)
8 June 2020 — Statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/jun/email-15-6-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS EU: Reinforcement of Frontex runs into legal problems Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online: 21 May 2020: New analysis: reinforcement of Frontex runs into legal problems
21 May 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org New analysis: reinforcement of Frontex runs into legal problems An internal Frontex report published today by Statewatch highlights a series of issues in implementing the agency’s new legislation, including uncertain legal terminology and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 May 2020 (08/20)
18 May 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/may/email-18-5-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS 1. Statewatch Analysis: Mediterranean: As the fiction of a Libyan search and rescue zone begins to crumble, EU states use the coronavirus pandemic to declare themselves unsafe Continue reading
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The Transformation of Societies on the Occasion of Covid-19 Heralds the Militarisation of Europe
We reproduce a discussion between Thierry Meyssan and a group of students. He explains that the political responses to Covid-19 have no medical purpose. A partially identifiable transnational group seized the opportunity provided by the epidemic to try to impose a profound transformation of European societies, just as it had used the attacks of 11… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 May 2020
“On Easter night and the days that followed I was involved in a mission in which a boat with 51 irregular migrants including 8 women and 3 minors were taken to port in Tripoli. On the same boat were five corpses.” Continue reading
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Statewatch: States of Control the dark side of pandemic politics: Webinar 29 April
This Wednesday, our friends at the Transnational Institute will be hosting a webinar to examine the repressive measures taken by states across the globe to address the coronavirus pandemic. The event starts at 16:00 Central European Time this Wednesday, 29 April. Statewatch is co-sponsoring the event, for wprivacyhich you can register online here. Continue reading
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The Greek tragedy: Act Three
On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. Continue reading
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The euro’s corona crisis
This coming Thursday 23 April there is a video conference meeting of the EU leaders to discuss once again what to do about the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing lockdown of production across the area. In particular, there is the vexed question of how to help out those EU members states like Italy and Spain… Continue reading
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Life vs Profit: the real ‘war’ in times of coronavirus
The State needs people to be alive to construct the mythical social contract with them. But Capital is the actual deep state. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 April 2020 (06/20)
10 April 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/apr/email-10-4-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES & BRIEFING 1. Italy renews Memorandum with Libya, as evidence of a secret Malta-Libya deal 2. Anti-migration cooperation between the EU, Italy and Libya: some truths surfaces 3. Briefing: Spain: Migrants’ rights must be guaranteed and put at the core of measures Continue reading
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