Europe
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The EU proposes a nightmare version of the Link Tax!
Today, a draft of the copyright law we’ve been anticipating was leaked and it confirms the worst. The EU Commission is going ahead with giving unprecedented powers to publishing giants – including the the Link Tax – giving them the ability to charge fees when snippets of text are used in hyperlinks. Continue reading
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EU Commission: Yes, we will create new ancillary copyright for news publishers, but please stop calling it a “link tax”
Well that was quick: just two days after Commissioner Ansip delivered a non-denial denial that “this Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks” Statewatch published a draft of the Commission’s own Impact assessment on the modernisation of EU copyright rules which clearly states that the Commission will indeed propose the introduction of an… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 August 2016 (15/16)
30 August 2016 — Statewatch.org/ office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/aug/e-mail-gen-30-aug.pdf NEWS 1. EU Commission: Copyright reform proposals: Leaked internal Impact Assessment (IA) 2. Statewatch Analysis: The visible hand: The EU’s Security Industrial Policy 3. Refugees: New routes to reach Spain lead to more deaths at sea 4. EU: Common list… Continue reading
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Lied to over Link Tax
Documents leaked this morning1 prove that the EU Commission misled the public earlier this week when it tweeted, “The @EU_Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks.” You were lied to. We were lied to. The public was lied to. Continue reading
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Link Tax: Old Wine now in New Bottle
This is unreal. Yesterday, we asked you to tell the EU Commission to abandon plans for the link tax by sharing hard-hitting social media images. Thanks to you, later the same day, the EU Commission responded to our campaign on Twitter, saying “The @EU_Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks.” But here’s the… Continue reading
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Last Chance to Kill the Link Tax!
The EU Commission are wavering on whether or not to keep going with the link tax. They’ve heard you and thousands of Internet users speak out, and now they have the final decision to make as they write the law -– link tax law, yay or nay? We need you to stop it before it… Continue reading
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Statewatch analysis: The visible hand: The EU’s Security Industrial Policy
The EU’s initiatives in security are wide-ranging, but they frequently dovetail with the interests of major security and defence companies: tools for mass data-gathering and predictive analytics, continent-wide surveillance systems and databases, the increasing use of biometrics in all walks of life, and the closer integration of public authorities and private industry. Continue reading
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Video: Greek Professor: Refugee Policies of European States Are State Crimes
Aegean University Professor Stratos Georgoulas: Refugees in Greece are often forced to choose between imprisonment in camps or deportation to Turkey Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 August 2016 (13/16)
15 August 2016 — Statewatch.org • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/aug/e-mail-gen-15-aug.pdf NEWS 1. EU: Analysis: A missed opportunity to open up secret trilogue decision-making in the EU 2. EU: External migration projects: Council to approve auditors’ recommendations 3. French interior minister wants global effort against encryption 4. HUNGARY-ECHR: Anti-Roma racism, hyperlinks… Continue reading
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Turkey’s Attempted Coup – Cui Bono? An [Organized] Gift From Allah? Selected Articles
3 August 2016 — Global Research Turkey’s Attempted Coup – Cui Bono? An [Organized] Gift From Allah? By Felicity Arbuthnot, August 02 2016 In under a week 60,000 people had been fired or detained and 2,300 institutions closed on Erdogan’s orders. Latest figures stand at 70,000 including media, health, education and judiciary purged or interned according to the State… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 July 2016 (12/16)
28 July 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jul/e-mail-gen-july.pdf NEWS 1. Council: Exit-Entry, Discrimination, Equal treatment, Maritime Security and Banned exports 2. Greece: GISTI report on Greek hotspots in Lesbos and Chios after the EU/Turkey deal 3. UK: Growing calls to extend undercover policing inquiry remit beyond England and… Continue reading
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Unacceptable Capitalism: Bayer is suing ‘Europe’ for saving the bees
Bayer, BASF and Syngenta are suing the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban — and we can’t sit back and let Big Pesticide overturn it while the bees vanish. The UN sounded the alarm bells:… Continue reading
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Video: The European Revolt Against the Neoliberal EU (1/2)
Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against austerity must pursue the restructuring of public debt, nationalization of key sectors, and public control of the banking system, but none of this can be done within the European Union (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The European Union: Part of America’s Imperial Project: Selected Articles
20 July 2016 — Global Research Video: The European Union: Part of America’s Imperial Project By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett, July 18 2016 The EU is a Cold War Construct, a US imperial project formulated by the Washington Consensus. The growing movement against EU domination is an anti-imperial initiative of Worldwide significance. Continue reading
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East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report By Richard Smallteacher
Shoes labeled “Made in Europe” are often assembled in poor East European countries for ‘starvation wages’ according to a new research report from the Change Your Shoes campaign. The companies whose labor practices were examined include Ara, Bata, Deichmann, Geox, Leder & Schuh AG, Lowa and Zara. Continue reading
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Roger Dodger By S. Artesian
Cameron resigns, but not until October. Britain votes out of the EU, but not out until….well, nobody knows. Boris Johnson, playing Yeltsin to Cameron’s Gorbachev, pulls himself out of the race to replace Cameron. Farage pulls out because……well, because that’s what the British ruling class has perfected over the last 70 years of dissembling, and… Continue reading
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‘They’re Making Racism and Xenophobia Into a Legitimate Voice’
The mainstream parties have been very willing to use xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric, to one degree or another, to ensure that they win votes, and also as a way of redirecting resentment, as their economic policies have caused poverty and have created a huge amount of resentment amongst working people in the UK. They need to… Continue reading
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Video: Narrative of Brexit ‘Leave’ Voters as Racist and Anti-Immigrant Ignores Real Anti-Austerity Sentiment
Economist Michael Hudson argues that a vote for Europe is not a vote for socialism, but for a very right-wing, hard right, corporatist Europe where the laws will be made by bureaucrats acting on behalf of the large financial centers Continue reading
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Brexit and the return of European militarism
The European Union has responded to the UK referendum vote to withdraw from the EU, and the resulting intensification of the political, economic and social crisis of Europe, by calling for the militarization of the continent and buildup of its internal security forces. Since the announcement of the result 11 days ago, a number of… Continue reading
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The Silence of the “Progressive Left”: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the Neoliberal T-TIP By Michael Hudson
What used to be a socialist left has been silent about the fact that there are very good reasons for people to say that this is not the kind of Europe they want to be a part of. It is becoming a dead zone. And it cannot be “democratized” without replacing the Lisbon and Maastricht… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 