Europe
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GREECE’D: We Voted ‘No’ to Slavery, but ‘Yes’ to Our Chains By Yves Smith
As this article describes, the cheerleaders over the Greek referendum last weekend has badly misread the game in play. Tsipras is now working on a coalition basis with all parties save Golden Dawn, which means firmly pro-Eurozone parties such as To Potami and New Democracy. And as he and other party leaders promised in the… Continue reading
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Greece Rejects the Troika By Michael Hudson
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to expel Greece from Europe, despite no law permitting this to occur. Let us see now whether he still tries to carry out his bluff, which has been echoed by right-wing leaders throughout Europe. Continue reading
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What Stinks about Varoufakis and the Whole Greek Mess? By F. William Engdahl
What we have witnessed…is what can only be called a clown show, one in which the laugh is on the Greek people and EU citizens as a whole. The ones laughing, as often is so, are the mega banks and Troika–ECB, IMF and EU. Behind the Troika, almost invisible, are the Greek oligarchs who have… Continue reading
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The political fraud of Syriza’s referendum on EU austerity in Greece By Alex Lantier
On the eve of the referendum, the Syriza government is in full-scale retreat. If the “yes” vote carries, the Tsipras government is preparing to resign and give way to a more openly right-wing regime, dedicated to implementing whatever the EU demands. In his speech Monday calling for a “no” vote, Tsipras signaled that his government… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, Med crisis and EU response: 24 June 2015 (15/15)
24 June 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Accessible also as a pdf file at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jun/sw-med-crisis-23-jun-15.pdf Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Key Analysis and Documents Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 24 June 2015 (14/15)
24 June 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here:http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jun/sw-news-online-24-june-15.pdf NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ Continue reading
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Reasons To Be Uncheerful By S. Artesian
The truth is that the debt represents the compressed whole of capitalism. More specifically, Greece’s public debt cannot be separated from its membership in the EU, from its adherence to the monetary union, from its condition of capitalism within the larger network of capitalism, all the PhDs, political economists, Marxist economists, in the world to… Continue reading
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Poll Finds Mass Opposition In Europe To War Drive vs. Russia Over Ukraine By Alex Lantier
The findings of a poll published yesterday by the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center, showing broad opposition in Europe to a NATO war with Russia, underscore the anti-democratic character of the US-led war drive against Russia over Ukraine. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 29 May 2015 (13/15): News: Med crisis and EU response
29 May 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean New Key Documents 1. European External Action Service (EEAS): Military Advice: RESTRICTED doc no: 8802-15 2. Political and Security Committee: PMG Recommendations on the draft Crisis Management 3.Draft Crisis Management Concept for a possible CSDP operation to disrupt human smuggling networks in… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 29 May 2015 (12/15)
29 May 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. UN: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression 2. EU: Council of the European Union: EU Action on Migratory Pressures – targeted update on Turkey Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 May 2015 (10/15)
21 May 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. Council of the European Union: Eurojust: Confiscation, Bosnia: Mandate & Revised civilian tasks: CSDP 2. Big Brother is watching EU – as US moves towards privacy reform, Europe enacts sweeping new spying powers Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 May 2015 (11/15): News: Med crisis and EU response
21 May 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Key Analysis and Documents Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 April 2015 (08/15): Crisis in the Mediterranean
27 April 015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean 1. UN-UK-MEDIA: UN Human Rights chief urges UK to tackle tabloid hate speech 2. Draft list of Member State “pledges” of military and other assets 3. Don’t rock the boat: EU leaders do as little as possible, Analysis Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 April 2015 (09/15)
27 April 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ NEWS 1. “The time is here to be seized” and “Catching History on the Wing” A. Sivanandan 2. EU: Regulation on Data Protection: Consolidated version (630 pages) from EP 3. Frontex and eu-LISA Cooperation Plan 2015 Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 17 March 2015 (05/15): Fingerprinting by force / UK: Police “spying” whistleblower admits to MPs that he infiltrated six trade unions…
17 March 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ Top stories and analyses from Statewatch 1. EU: Fingerprinting by force: secret discussions on “systematic identification” of migrants and asylum seekers2. EU: Statewatch Analysis: Proposed Data Protection Regulation: What has the Council agreed so far?3. Is it time to go back to the typewriter, carbon paper and Tippex? “Remote access” to any… Continue reading
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EU Splits on Supplying Weapons to Ukraine — How and Why By Eric Zuesse
There are 28 member-nations in the EU. Apparently, 17 of them do not want to sell weapons to the Ukrainian Government. That’s 17 EU nations which are apparently siding with Russia in opposing the extermination of the residents in the region of the former Ukraine, Donbass, where the residents had voted 90% for the Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward By Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios, and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos
The transitional “bridge Agreement” of the 20th of February is a truce intended by the Greek government and welcomed by the other side (the European “institutions”). Within the truce period (the next four months), the conditions for negotiating the next agreement will be shaped. This could mean that everything is still open. However, that is… Continue reading
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Greece Told Deeper Austerity Needed to Secure Additional Loans By Robert Stevens
Euro zone finance ministers met Monday to discuss a set of proposals from the Syriza-led Greek government based on the austerity programme both sides signed on February 20. Greece was required to submit a list of austerity measures deemed acceptable to its creditors as a precondition for receiving a pending load of €7.2 billion and… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 March 2015 (04/15)
6 March 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. EU-UK: House of Lords report: CIVILIAN USE OF DRONES2. EU Commissioner: Migration Agenda: No search & rescue3. UK: A critical response to “The British Armed Forces: Learning Resource 2014 Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 February 2015 (03/15)
17 February 2015 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org NEWS http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. NETHERLANDS: DATA RETENTION: Dutch DPA post-ECJ data retention Bill: “disproportionate infringement of private life”2. EU: “FORCED RETURNS”: Frontex stats report: 74,262 “forced returns” in last year3. EU: CJEU: Advocate General (AG): Opinion: person charged with criminal offence can be removed Continue reading
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