Europe
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Video: Brexittania – Official Trailer
On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history: old pitted against young, nationalists against migrants, the countryside against the city, and “the people” against “the elite”. But underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this… Continue reading
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European Member States Continue Great Glyphosate Rebellion with 10 Year License Refusal!
An initial round of votes Wednesday on the proposed 10 year re-license for glyphosate by European Union (EU) member states has failed to reach a majority and has thus forced the European Commission (EC) to consider a phase out or shorter license for the world”s most used herbicide. Continue reading
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Catalan Independence: Out of Madrid’s Frying Pan, Into the NATO Fire? By Tony Cartalucci
Media on all sides surrounding the recent Catalan referendum for independence from Spain focused on Madrid’s security crackdown on voters. However, what is not being mentioned about Catalonia’s ongoing bid to achieve independence, who is leading it, and what their plans are for the region should they succeed, is just as important. Continue reading
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Bicycle Hoax Highlights Soulless Cycle
Hundreds of spectators witnessed a bizarre spectacle Saturday,when a slick new tech startup called RefuGreenErgy held a three-hour launch event in central Brussels. The event featured four “RefuGreens” (actual refugees) happily pedaling battery-filling bikes while “company representatives” (actually activists) described to tourists and others how the refugees were producing “green” electricity they could buy; the… Continue reading
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The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia By Pepe Escobar
Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-described home/patronizing dispenser of human rights to lesser regions across the planet: “In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else.” Call… Continue reading
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Is Google Helping Monsanto Hide the Truth?
This week, the EU Parliament banned Monsanto lobbyists from attending any meetings there—because the Biotech Giant refused to show up for hearings into allegations that it had interfered with safety studies. Continue reading
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Update on Save the Link Campaign
A leak from the European Council1 has revealed that Germany, the largest and most powerful member of the EU, is adding its voice to criticism of the controversial mass content filtering proposal we’ve been fighting together. Article 13 of the European Commission’s proposed Copyright Directive would put bots — automated censorship mechanisms — in charge… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 19 September 2017 (11/17)
19 September 2017 — Statewatch.org/ Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/sep/email-19-9-17.pdf ANALYSES, BRIEFING & VIEWPOINT: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm 1. EU: New report: Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex 2. Analysis: A Pyrrhic victory? The ECJ upholds the EU law on relocation of asylum-seekers Continue reading
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EU Commission set to approve Glyphosate!
The EU Commission is about to approve Monsanto’s favourite weedkiller chemical for another decade — unless we convince three key national governments to stop it. Call on the German, Italian and French government to reject the EU Commission’s disastrous proposal to approve glyphosate! Continue reading
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How Corporate Lobbyists Dominate Meetings with UK and EU Brexit Negotiators By True Publica
New analysis of official statistics on lobby meetings with ministers from the UK’s Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) and members of the EU’s Brexit Task Force reveals a common willingness to privilege the representatives of corporate interests above all others Continue reading
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Statewatch: New report: Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex
Transnational corporations are winning millions of euros of public research funds to develop ever more intrusive surveillance and snooping technologies, a new report by Statewatch and the Transnational Institute reveals today. The report, Market Forces, shows how the EU’s €1.7 billion ‘Secure societies’ research programme has been shaped by the “homeland security” industry and in… Continue reading
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The 2014 Ukraine Coup Was as Much About China as Russia. Eurasian Trade and the New Silk Road By Adam Garrie
17 August 2017 — Global Research The events which led to the 2014 coup in Ukraine are generally blamed on anti-Russia actors, including the United States and EU. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was recently in the EU where he said the following, “The largely-provoked-from-the-outside Ukrainian crisis has become the direct consequence of such short-sighted policy of Washington and… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 24 July 2017 (09/17): The EU goes to war with the African ‘elite’
24 July 2017 — Statewatch In the midst of a refugee crisis perceived as being out of control the EU reached a dodgy deal with Turkey on 18 March 2016 and a few months signed a similar deal with Afghanistan on the return and readmission of refugees. These deals tossed out of the window EU… Continue reading
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Monsanto/Bayer: #mergerfromhell
Bayer and Monsanto just filed their merger for approval — and European regulators could approve it in less than three weeks… Can you send an email to the European Commissioner for Competition, Margarete Vestager and ask her to stop this merger from hell? Continue reading
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Make that call to MIchael Gove to ban Glyphosate!
The European Commission hasn’t learnt a bit. They officially presented a proposal to licence a toxic pesticide called glyphosate for ten more years, even though we’ve just submitted over 1.3 million ECI signatures for verification. The Commission is moving forward on glyphosate before they have to address our ECI, and now it is national ministers… Continue reading
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The Shameful Link Tax!
Just a few days ago we wrote to you about key votes in the European Parliament this week, where our right to link and to share content was hanging in the balance. We hoped MEPs would side with citizens. But what we got instead was truly shameful. Continue reading
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Europe says no to glyphosate!
A staggering 1.3 million Europeans signed the Stop Glyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI). Together we’ve told the European Commission to ban Monsanto’s favourite pesticide, to reform the EU’s pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use. We’ve done it — and only just in time! Continue reading
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An even worse version of the Link Tax now on the cards!
Crucial votes on the Link Tax are happening TOMORROW, and a major EU political party just u-turned to officially back this costly and reckless proposal. The European People’s Party (EPP) has decided to go all-in for the broadest, worst version of the Link Tax — which gives copyright ownership and the right to collect fees… Continue reading
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One Brit MEP is trying to stop the ban on dangerous pesticides! Mail your MEP Now!
A single British politician is trying to stop plans to ban bee-killing pesticides from our fields for good. In just 24 hours, some British MEPs – politicians on a powerful European committee – will be asked to reverse plans to permanently ban these dangerous pesticides. But there are hundreds of thousands of us reading this… Continue reading
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Support the Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides
A historic ban on bee-killing neonics is being proposed in Europe — but the pesticide lobby and its political friends are desperately trying to stop it. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 