Europe
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Statewatch News Online 24 August 2020 (10/20)
24 August 2020 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf: https://www.statewatch.org/media/1322/email-24-8-20-final.pdf NEW PUBLICATIONS Press release: EU’s planned ‘deportation machine’: expensive, dangerous and lacking in transparency and accountability measures Plans to increase the number of deportations from the EU will cost hundreds of millions of euros, create giant, opaque and unaccountable agencies and further undermine claims that the… Continue reading
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Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas: attempts to reduce or eliminate rights and protections in the law governing deportations; the expansion and interconnection… Continue reading
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Moral panic over refugees in the English Channel is the ugly face of Brexit
Imagine the courage and fortitude, borne of desperation, it requires to embark on a do or die attempt to cross the sea in a dinghy from a land where you’ve already been met with the fist of fury rather than the hand of friendship, to another land where more hostility and rage awaits your arrival. Continue reading
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Watch: Germany’s COVID-19 Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry
On 3rd July 2020, the ACU started with an information conference in several languages. All citizens, national and international, can make suggestions for experts and witnesses (kontakt@ärzte-für-aufklärung.de). The speakers of the ACU (Heiko Schöning, Bodo Schiffmann, Martin Haditsch) invite the experts and witnesses to the public hearing of evidence. Continue reading
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The U.S. Nuclear Presence in Western Europe, 1954-1962
Declassified Records Reflect Debates over Nuclear Weapons Stockpile, Use Decisions, and Independent Nuclear Capabilities Continue reading
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Towards a Totalitarian Regime? European Commission Adopts GMO Vaccine to Combat the Covid-19 Virus
In a decision which will shock many, the European Commission has taken a big step towards its ambition to subject its citizens to a totalitarian regime in which DNA altering technology forms the centre piece of mass control and unapologetic rule by despotism. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online,14 2020 (9/20)
14 July 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: https://www.statewatch.org/media/1230/email-14-7-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES 1. Analysis: Spain/Portugal/Italy: Partial relief: migrant regularisations during the COVID-19 pandemic by Yurema Pallarés Pla Continue reading
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Press release: EU to deploy controversial technologies on holidaymakers and business travellers
International travel may be on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the EU is pressing ahead with long-term plans to deploy controversial, untested technologies that will cast a “veil of suspicion” over holidaymakers and other travellers visiting the Schengen area, says a new report published today by the civil liberties organisation Statewatch. Continue reading
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Automated suspicion: The EU’s new travel surveillance initiatives
Join us for the launch of a report looking at how the EU is using new technologies to screen, profile and risk-assess travellers to the Schengen area, and the risks this poses to civil liberties and fundamental rights. Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 