Europe
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Brexit Delay: the Soviets Would Have Understood It By Seth Ferris
So the Brexit saga has taken another twist, and become even more confusing and uncertain. All we can predict is that whatever the UK government says will happen is the one thing which won’t. May has failed to deliver Brexit. Instead she keeps coming back to parliament with an appalling deal. She’s now delaying Brexit… Continue reading
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China’s Belt and Road Continues to Win Over Europe While Technocrats Scream and Howl By Matthew Ehret
On April 10th, China’s Premier Li Keqiang celebrated the completion of the 1st phase of the 2.5 kilometer Chinese-built Pelgesac Bridge in Croatia across the Bay of Mali Ston alongside Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic. This ceremony marked a striking victory as the following day ushered in an important 16+1 Heads of State summit that saw Greece inducted as… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 April 2019 (09/19)
15 April 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/apr/email-15-april.pdf Please to support our work ANALYSIS Statewatch: Italy’s redefinition of sea rescue as a crime draws on EU policy for inspiration STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Europol’s anti-terrorist unit demands removal of adverts, books, and more from web archives 2. EU: Council wants a “comprehensive study” on… Continue reading
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The ReCommonsEurope Manifesto: A Left-wing Initiative in Europe By Eric Toussaint
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May 2019 draws very little interest, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe’ is on to a promising start. Continue reading
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Washington’s Attempt to Impose its Will on the EU Stirs Anti-American Moods By Grete Mautner
The untamed desire of the Trump administration to impose all sorts of conditions and restrictions on the way that Europe operates is clearly leading to an abrupt increase in anti-American moods across various social layers of the European society. Practically speaking, there’s an avid hatred visible all across the EU towards Trump’s use of the… Continue reading
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EU: ‘Fingerprinting Regulation’ approved now we need your help to monitor its implementation
On 4 April the European Parliament voted in favour of a Regulation that introduces a requirement for the mandatory fingerprinting of all national identity card holders in the EU – but this is not the end of the story, because now the measures will be implemented by national governments. We need your support to continue… Continue reading
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Gangster Economics Against Huawei & Nordstream 2 By Caleb Maupin
Many Americans base their entire view of the world, and their understanding of the relationship of the United States to other countries, on the contents of a college-level “Economics 101” course. They view the world market as a land of “free competition” in which different countries and international corporations “compete.” They then believe that consumers,… Continue reading
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China – and Macron’s U-Turn By Peter Koenig
Less than a week ago, President Macron was lambasting Italy for signing agreements with China in the context of their New Silk Road, alias President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the same breath he was criticizing China for attempting to undermine Europe with new trade individual country deals under the pretext of… Continue reading
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Class struggle and socialism are the only answer to the Brexit crisis
The prospect of leaving the European Union has provoked the deepest crisis of rule in the post-war history of British imperialism. But the great danger is that the working class is not only being prevented from intervening in its own interests, it is being divided against itself and politically subordinated to one or the other… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 1 April 2019 (08/19)
1 April 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-1-apr.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: New Roles for Frontex agreed – including returning non-EU nationals to non-EU countries 2. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (19-25.3.18 3. EU: “Policing in a Connected World”: Council to help police access “Novel Actionable Information” Continue reading
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EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next? By Danny O’Brien
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety. Continue reading
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Update on the Link Tax
On Tuesday the European Parliament in Strasbourg voted to approve the Copyright Directive including the highly controversial Article 13. This happened despite millions of people like you voicing their opposition online and in the streets. Continue reading
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European Union intensifies internet censorship By Justus Leicht and Johannes Stern
Two months before the European elections, the European Parliament has voted to massively escalate internet censorship. Yesterday, the majority of MEPs voted in favour of a directive which, under the guise of copyright reforms, would enforce the use of so-called upload filters in social media, thus further restricting the internet. Continue reading
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The Conservative Party is incubating the racism behind New Zealand terror By Nafeez Ahmed
The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this decade: the 2011 massacre in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik. Continue reading
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“Brexit is a shambles—it will affect so many people in many ways”
Reporters for the World Socialist Web Site spoke to demonstrators at Saturday’s anti-Brexit protest in London. They explained the social and political concerns that brought them to support the demand for a second referendum. Continue reading
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The ICC and NGOs: Modern Day Manifestations of “The White Man’s Burden” By Tony Cartalucci
It is an institutionalized tool – one of many – used by Western corporate-financier interests to coerce and control nations across the developing world. In a recent charade aimed to boost its otherwise nonexistent credibility, the ICC has claimed it seeks to investigate the United States for war crimes regarding Afghanistan. It also claims it… Continue reading
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The « American Party » within the institutions of the European Union by Manlio Dinucci
The European Parliament has just adopted a resolution which requires that the Union stop considering Russia as a strategic partner, but rather as an enemy of humanity. At the same time, the Commission sent a warning about the Chinese threat. Everything is unfolding as if the United States were manœuvering the Union into playing a… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2019 (07/19)
18 March 2019 — Statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-18-mar.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Open letter to MEPs: oppose mandatory fingerprinting for national identity cards 2. EU: Security Union: new measures introduce biometric identity cards and a new database 3. ECHR: Three judgments: detention of and lack of care for unaccompanied… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 March 2019 (06/19)
4 March 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-4-mar-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Common European Asylum System legislation – still going nowhere fast 2. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (19-25.2.19) 3. EU: Council & Parliament reach agreement immigration liaison officers, visas, biometric ID cards 4. EU: Council… Continue reading
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New Studies Confirm Dangers of Glyphosate By F. William Engdahl
Since the 1960s uproar over the dangers of widespread agriculture use of the weed killer, DDT, no other herbicide or agriculture chemical has stirred as much widespread opposition as glyphosate. Glyphosate is the main and only publicly disclosed ingredient in the world-leading herbicide, Roundup from Monsanto/Bayer. With fierce opposition from many EU member states, in… Continue reading
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