Europe
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Statewatch News Online, 1 February 2016 (03/16): Refugees: EU plans to criminalise volunteers – in Greece NGOs and volunteers have to “register” with the police
1 February 2016 — Statewatch Statewatch News Online, 1 February 2016 (03/16) Web link to this story: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/eu-med-crisis-criminalising-civil-society.htm Refugee crisis: Council proposals on migrant smuggling would criminalise humanitarian assistance by civil society, local people and volunteers and in Greece: NGOs and volunteers have to “register” with the police and be vetted Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 January 2016 (01/16
18 January 2016 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/email-18-1-16.pdf NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ Statewatch – with links to 12 free resources and databases Continue reading
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Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 8 December 2015 (27/15)
8 December 2015 — Statewatch Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 8 December 2015 (27/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org See Contents list below and Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/email-8-12-15-refugees.pdf Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 7 December 2015 (26/15)
7 December 2015 — Statewatch.org Statewatch News Online, 7 December 2015 (26/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/dec/email-7-12-15.pdf Continue reading
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Impacts of Turkey’s Aggression against Russia. The “Turkish Stream” is Dead. Disruption of Gas Pipeline Routes to the EU. Russia’s Economy in Crisis? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
“Regime change” in Ukraine engineered by the US State Department was largely responsible for the collapse of the “South Stream” gas pipeline project. Washington’s intent was to establish a de facto blockade which would prevent the flow of Russian gas to the European Union. Continue reading
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Statewatch 24 November 2015: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU (25/15)
24 November 2015 — Statewatch Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 24 November 2015 (25/15) e-mail: office@statewatch.org See Contents list below and Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/nov/eu-med-docs.pdf New key documents and decision-making by Council of the European Union, European Commission and Agencies plus Commentaries (in chronological order) Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 November 2015 (24/15)
17 November 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/nov/news-online-17-nov.pdf NEWS: http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. CoE: Commissioner Mui nieks intervenes in ECHR on migration cases concerning 2. EP study: Implementation Lisbon Treaty: Improving Functioning of EU: Foreign Affairs 3. EU: CJEU Judgment: Commission right to refuse access to documents Continue reading
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Selected Articles: “Selective Empathy”, Double Standard Regarding Paris Terror Attacks By Global Research News
15 November 2015 — Global Research Selected Articles: “Selective Empathy”, Double Standard Regarding Paris Terror Attacks By Global Research News French Security Left Blind During November 13 Paris Terror Attacks By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 15 2015 I have received a report from European security that there was a massive cyber attack on French systems Continue reading
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The Paris Terrorist Attacks, “9/11 French-Style”, “Le 11 septembre à la française” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
President Hollande had ordered by decree without debate or consultation with France’s National Assembly the enactment of a State of Emergency throughout France, coupled with the closing of France’s borders allegedly to prevent terrorists from coming in, and from terror suspects from leaving the country. These drastic police state measures (including the repeal of habeas… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 October 2015 (23/15): NSA & Europe / Mass Surveillance…
21 October 2015— http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/oct/e-mail-21-10-15.pdf Continue reading
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Israeli leaders delight in Europe’s cruelty toward refugees By Rania Khalek
As most of the world looks on in horror at Europe’s atrocious response to refugees escaping war and persecution in the Middle East and Africa, some Israeli officials are quietly reveling in the chaos. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 7 September 2015 (21/15): ‘We are Ashamed’
MEPs should show leadership in this crisis by insisting that the other EU institutions develop an effective humanitarian protection policy on arrival for refugees, and create EU-wide legal channels to be open to migrants (the initiatives are so far limited to the highly skilled and seasonal migrants), by the end of the year. If they… Continue reading
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Dead children By Richard Seymour
Why are they washing up on the shores? European governments want us to blame traffickers. The advantage of blaming traffickers is that it actually licenses those governments to implement even more repressive measures. But traffickers are only out to make a quick buck off the system that European governments have created. Continue reading
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Why the Refugee Crisis? By Stephen Lendman
Endless US direct and proxy wars force desperate people to seek safety out of harm’s way. Numbers fleeing war and destabilized areas are greater than any time since WWII – increasing exponentially as conflicts and chaos rage in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Donbass, Somalia, South Sudan, and elsewhere. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 August 2015 (20/15)
5 August 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can access as a pdf file at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/aug/e-mail-med-4-8-15.pdf Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and its effect inside the EU New key documents and Commentaries Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 July 2015 (19/15)
30 July 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jul/e-mail-30-7-15.pdf NEWS: http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. EU: Analysis: EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs cooperation: an honest and equal relationship? 2. EU: Briefing: Preparing the ground for “smart borders”: EU action on “overstayers” 3. EU: Smart borders: European Commission and MSs’at odds over digitising passport stamps 4. Continue reading
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Statewatch: New Analysis & Briefing, 30 July 2015 (17/15): EU-US cooperation & Smart Borders
The USA is a major, unseen, influence on EU justice and home affairs policies and practices and uses the meetings to lobby for direct access to EU and Member State databases. Continue reading
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Video: Who rules Europe?
From the outbreak of Europe’s debt crisis in 2010, Germany and the Troika institutions of the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF have come to wield immense influence over the continent and the populations within it. This video examines the individuals and institutions of power in Europe. Continue reading
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Syriza Betrays Greece’s No Vote: Why the Left Should Form a Popular Front Against the EU By Stavros Mavroudeas
The referendum’s victory with such huge margin was unexpected even for the NO supporters. In the short one-week campaign the Greek economic and political elites unleashed a blatant terror and misinformation campaign through their mass media purporting that a NO vote would destroy Greece and that EU’s terms should be unconditionally accepted. In this unconcealed… Continue reading
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What a Difference a Year Makes By S. Artesian
16 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor What a Difference a Year Makes Mix and Match 2014 “This is not our Europe. This is only the Europe we want to change. In place of a Europe of fear of unemployment, disability, old-age and poverty; in the place of the current Europe Continue reading
The New Dark Age 