Europe
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Coronavirus: The view from Germany
29 March 2020 — Youtube An open letter to the Chancellor of Germany Continue reading
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Covid19 yet to impact Europe’s overall mortality Year-to-date statistics show excess mortality lower than previous years
The official figures for 24 countries across Europe show, not only that overall mortality is not increasing, but – so far – it is actually well below recent averages. Continue reading
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Italy Calls General Strike: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Your Profits”
Italy is the global epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 64,000 cases of infection and almost 7,000 deaths, half of which occurred in the last week. This is the result of both neoliberal austerity measures that defunded healthcare in Italy and the criminal negligence of the EU. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2020 (04/20)
18 March 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/mar/email-18-3-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS 1. Frontex launches “game-changing” recruitment drive for standing corps of border guards Continue reading
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U.S. Army invades virus plagued Europe
In the midst of a staggering virus epidemic that has shut much of Europe down, the insane and arrogant United States is presently sending 30,000 Army troops throughout Europe for war games. Continue reading
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China’s Offers Experience in Europe’s Fight Against COVID-19
8 March 2020 — Telesur The World Health Organization stressed that international cooperation is crucial to managing the outbreak. At an extraordinary council on the COVID-19 epidemic held in Brussels on Friday, the European Union (EU) health ministers agreed to develop a coordinated approach to prevention and protection of people at risk, and establish coherent containment measures, including Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 February 2020 (03/20)
26 February 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/feb/email-26-2-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES & VIEWPOINT 1. Analysis: Spain: Will the new ‘progressive’ government uphold freedom of expression? 2. Analysis: Fort Vert: Nature conservation as border regime in Calais by Hanna Rullman: 3. Viewpoint: The shadowy business of fear-mongers by Ana González-Páramo STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Refugee Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 February 2020 (02/20): No saving lives at sea
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has called on EU governments to limit the saving of lives at sea by Operation Sophia. A note sent to the member states’ permanent representatives in Brussels says the mission should prioritise the enforcement of a UN arms embargo on Libya, rather than monitoring migrant smuggling activities, and suggests… Continue reading
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Toxic residues through the back door
Pesticide corporations and trade partners pressured EU to allow banned substances in imported crops Continue reading
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The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
The only complaint the U.S. allows is that the United States might not defend us enough, when the greater danger comes from being defended too much, writes Diana Johnstone on the Munich conference. Continue reading
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Operation Barbarossa II: Setting The Stage For War
I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for as of the last week in January the Americans and their gang of lieutenant nations… Continue reading
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RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Truth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars. Continue reading
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UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe in a Mess
As Great Britain returns to the uncertainties of the open sea, it leaves behind a European Union that is bureaucratically governed to serve the interests of financial capital, writes Diana Johnstone. Continue reading
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Trump’s EU Poodles – Germany, Britain And France – Obey His Order To Kill The Nuclear Deal With Iran
The European poodles who co-signed the nuclear deal with Iran – Britain, France and Germany (the EU3) – have been told by the Trump administration to kill the agreement. Today they started the process to do so. The other co-signers, Russia, China and Iran, continue to support the deal. Continue reading
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Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration
A bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia, which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes of Eurasia integration. Continue reading
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Fake “Farmer Willi” part of an international fake parade
Five thousand tractors caused severe disruption in Berlin last week as farmers protested against the German government’s environmental protection policies. These include plans to limit the use of fertiliser in order to tackle nitrate pollution in groundwater, and to phase out glyphosate by 2023 to protect biodiversity. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 December 2019 (23/19)
23 December 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/dec/email-23-12-19.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES 1. EU: New report: Data Protection, Immigration Enforcement and Fundamental Rights: What the EU’s Regulations on Interoperability Mean for People with Irregular Status 2. “How the hostile environment creates sites without rights”: Evidence presented to the London Hearing of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Continue reading
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AI Border Guards are Being Tested at the Edge of Fortress Europe, Away From Public Scrutiny
A series of trials funded by the EU to the tune of €4.5 million ended this summer, without most people ever even having heard about them. At three points on the EU’s external border, a new form of border protection using lie-detecting artificial intelligence has been tested. The European Commission is being sued for allowing… Continue reading
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The debts of undocumented Vietnamese migrants in Europe
Debt and trafficking were used to explain why 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a lorry in Essex, but whom did the migrants owe? Continue reading
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Europe’s Economy Today & Tomorrow, Part 2: Artificial Intelligence, Uberization, & Capitalist ‘Sharing Economy’ Ideology
The Wall St. Journal page one article of November 18, 2019 broadcast: “Europe’s New Jobs Stoke Discontent”. It asked: ‘why are workers so angry’, when millions more jobs have been created since Europe’s last recessions (2008-09 and 2011-13), when millions more job openings remain, and when minimum wages have been raised in most countries’? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 