Europe
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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
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Support The UN Resolution Against Unilateral Coercive Measures
For decades the U.S. government and its European allies have been illegally using unilateral economic sanctions (“Unilateral Coercive Measures”) as a weapon of war and mass destruction to topple governments that do not submit to the U.S. and European states’ domination of their country. The main objective of these unilateral sanctions is to destroy those… Continue reading
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New GMOs: European civil society demands that the law is implemented
The European Court of Justice ruled last year that new GMOs are still GMOs: But Finland and the Commission are dragging their feet, writes Eric Meunier of Inf’OGM Continue reading
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Europe’s gas alliance with Russia is a match made in heaven By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Amidst the excitement over the killing of the ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, a development of much impact on international security passed by when Denmark made the innocuous announcement on October 30 that it would permit the proposed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to pass through its exclusive economic zone. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2019 (19/19)
28 October 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/oct/email-28-10-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU migration agenda highlights its shortcomings 2. EU: PNR: Council to “explore” surveillance and profiling of all forms of mass transport 3. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (15-21.10.19) 4. Refugee crisis: latest news from across… Continue reading
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How Israel lobby set EU anti-Semitism agenda
For nearly four years, Katharina von Schnurbein has been posing as a champion of Europe’s Jews. If taken at face value, her speeches at numerous conferences suggest she is a conscientious civil servant motivated by a desire to halt persecution. A more detailed examination reveals she has been following an agenda set by Israel and… Continue reading
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Johnson Enters Neo-Con Heaven By Craig Murray
There has been remarkably little media commentary on the effect of the UK leaving the EU Common Foreign Policy, even though this is a major aim of Johnson, Gove and the Tory Brexiteers. The media appear not to have noticed the existence of the Common Foreign Policy. We saw perhaps the first public glimpse of… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 September 2019 (19/19)
23 September 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/sep/email-23-9-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH ANALYSIS EU: New EU deportation law breaches fundamental rights standards and should be rejected Continue reading
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Europe: The cracks are beginning to show Is the EU experiment coming to an end? Europe considers its options By Frank Lee
The nATO Buildup: 2014: The expansion of NATO in the late 20th and early 21st centuries had posed a serious strategic threat to Russia’s security. In 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. In 2004 they were followed by the Baltics, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia; Albania and Croatia joined in 2009. Continue reading
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You can take a horse to water but…. by michael roberts
Last Thursday, Mario Draghi, the current head of the European Central bank, soon to be replaced by Christine Lagarde from the IMF, announced a parting gift to banks and financial markets. The ECB decided to reintroduce its bond purchasing programme in order to inject yet more billions into Europe’s banks in order to persuade them… Continue reading
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Brexit, The EU and Democracy By Thierry Meyssan
During the dissolution of the USSR, France and Germany tried to maintain their place in the world by solving the problem of their size against the US giant. They decided to reunify the two Germanys and to merge together in a supranational state: the European Union. Armed with their experiences of inter-state cooperation, they thought… Continue reading
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New EU deportation law breaches fundamental rights standards and should be rejected
A proposed new EU law governing standards and procedures for deportations would breach fundamental rights standards, massively expand the use of detention, limit appeal rights and undermine ‘voluntary’ return initiatives. It should be rejected by the European Parliament and the Council, argues a new analysis published today by Statewatch. [1] Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 September 2019 (18/19)
9 September 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/sep/email-9-9-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH ANALYSIS Spain-Morocco: “Migration control, not rescue”: squeezing search and rescue in the Mediterranean by Jane Kilpatrick STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (2.9.19-8.9.19) 2. UK: Court: Police use of facial recognition is legal; survey finds majority… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 August 2019 (16/19)
5 August 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/aug/email-5-8-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Italy-Malta “Non Paper” wants compulsory relocation mechanism rather than the voluntary one 2. EU Council Presidency proposes follow-up on extending PNR to sea and rail traffic 3. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (6.7-25-7.19) Continue reading
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Ratlines: The Vatican, The Nazis & Western Intelligence By Hugo Turner
28 July 2019 — Internationalist 360° In one of the more shocking episodes of the Cold War tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their fascist allies were smuggled out of Europe and resettled around the world in places like Argentina, Canada, Australia and the United States. Others were resettled throughout the middle east a… Continue reading
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Conspiring with Neo-Nazi Parties: Washington and the EU’s Role in the Kiev Coup By Shane Quinn
In the weeks preceding the February 2014 ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, American politicians were prominent in Kiev inciting the marchers so as to destabilize government institutions. From early December 2013 Victoria Nuland, a high-ranking official in the US Department of State, made repeated trips to the Ukrainian capital while among other things she… Continue reading
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