Europe
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Europeans renew contact with Syria?
According to the agency, “While the Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Eva Filippi, never left Damascus, the representatives of Austria, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and the EU have been meeting all along in the Syrian capital on a regular basis.” The agency continues by reporting on meetings between members of French and British secret services… Continue reading
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Groping in the Dark: Jack Straw and the Irrelevance of the Left By Carl Rowlands
No-one knows exactly how many people have moved to the UK from Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic countries. Despite this, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said that immediately admitting workers from the 2004 EU accession countries into the UK labour market was, in his words, a ‘mistake.’ Blithely untroubled by… Continue reading
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UK Government Set to Support Monsanto in EU Court
The UK Government has confirmed that it will support Monsanto in a European court case brought by European civil society groups. In a written Parliamentary Answer today, Earl Howe stated that the Government will intervene in the European Court of Justice to support the biotechnology giant, which wishes to import a GMO soy variety called… Continue reading
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Europe’s Data Rape: It’s Civil Society, Not Politicians, Saying “No”
For all the diplomatic sound and fury, the leaders of Germany, France and Spain made it clear last week that there will be no European “Declaration of Independence” from the United States. When Merkel and other continental heads of state met at a summit meeting in Brussels, they conspicuously refused to push for a new… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 November 2013 (19/13): Metropolitan police detained David Miranda for promoting ‘political’ causes
4 November 2013 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13): full background coverage on EU-UK-USA Data Surveillance
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13): EU rules on maritime rescue: Member States quibble while migrants drown
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU “SEARCH & RESCUE Continue reading
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A Brave New Transatlantic Partnership: The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Proposed EU-US Trade Deal
As the second round of negotiations on the EU-US trade agreement kick off in Brussels next week, a new report published by members of the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B), including CEO, reveals the true human and environmental costs of the proposed deal. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 14 October 2013 (16/13): EU-USA Data Surveillance
14 October 2013 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org e-mail on EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE follow later : See Observatory: http://www.statewatch.org/eu-usa-data-surveillance.htm 1. EU: SEARCH & RESCUE AT SEA: WILL ALL EU MEMBER STATES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY? Continue reading
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The Golden Dawn Murder Case: Larry Summers and the New Fascism By Greg Palast
My investigation reveals that behind the banning of Golden Dawn, besides the usual European distaste for democracy, is something far more sinister: the ruling parties are distracting the public from their own involvement in the crime. Continue reading
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New Statewatch Journal 23 September 2013: Informants, spies and subversion
The intention is not to sort the “good” grasses from the “bad” but rather to interrogate the relationship between states and informers and better understand the role that they play not just in the pursuit of security and criminal justice, but state subversion and the pursuit of profit.” Continue reading
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The European Union and Greece: the Murder of a Nation By Anna FILIMONOVA
At the end of July, eurozone deputy finance ministers approved another transfer of money to Greece to the tune of EUR 6.8 billion (it had previously been thought that Athens would be allocated EUR 8.1 billion). Several days earlier, meanwhile, the Greek parliament approved the latest in a series of legislative acts, the adoption of… Continue reading
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EU stance on settlements threatens Israeli participation in bonanza called ‘Horizon 2020′
Israel is cringing under the European Union’s “guideline” requirement– the demand by the EU to “recognize in writing that the West Bank settlements are not part of Israel.” And Israel is drawing red lines of its own. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (12/13) UK News
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. UK: The IPCC has today published their annual statistics on deaths during or following police contact 2. UK: Independent Police Complaints Commission report (IPPC): Metropolitan Police Service handling of complaints alleging race discrimination Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (11/13): EU-USA: Data surveillance
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EP Inquiry: Letter from Martin Schulz, MEP, President of the European Parliament to the Council Presidency2. GERMANY-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: ‘Key Partners’: The Secret Link Between Germany and the NSA3. Extract from the Minutes of the 4 July 2013 meeting of COREPER II: EU-US High Level expert group on security… Continue reading
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The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe By Peter Schwarz
The right to privacy—a basic human right enshrined in the American and every European Constitution—and the associated guarantee of the confidentiality of the post and telecommunications are being ripped to shreds. The wiretaps are so obviously illegal that intelligence agencies in one country often delegate their activities to foreign partners in order to avoid overly… Continue reading
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US-EU Spy Scandal Challenges Transatlantic Trade Talks By Igor ALEXEEV
Snowden’s revelations have put a deep freeze on US-EU relations. Diplomats in Europe are searching for (and finding) bugs in their embassies. Influential politicians speak about this unprecedented betrayal of the transatlantic partnership. The popular German magazine SPIEGEL has published its bitter conclusion: «Berlin is a third-class ally». Can this super-scandal doom the trade talks… Continue reading
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The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe By Diana Johnstone
Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private aircraft of the President of Bolivia to cross their airspace on the mere suspicion that Edward Snowden might be aboard is rather more astonishing. Continue reading
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