Europe
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The revassalization of Europe: The real U.S. war aims in Ukraine
Europe is being weakened by this war, even if its elites have enriched themselves through various non-productive schemes. Continue reading
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Europe’s Anti-China Politics: One Step Forward, Two Backwards
On the 4th of October, when members of the European Union voted in favour of imposing tariffs of up to 45 per cent on Chinese Electric Vehicles (EVs) for at least the next five years, they did not just simply take a step to “de-risk” from China and/or put their policies in line with Washington’s. Continue reading
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European Union morphs into NATO’s financial war machine
Two key posts – in foreign and defense policy – reveal the militarist and anti-Russia direction of the European Union. Two key posts – in foreign and defense policy – reveal the militarist and anti-Russia direction of the European Union. Continue reading
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The West’s military mistake: Germany and NATO face the undeniable superiority of Russia and the BRICS alliance
In the shadow of Russian power, Europe is faltering. Germany and NATO’s military backwardness in the face of Russia is a wake-up call, revealing the flaws in a security that seemed unshakeable. The consequences of such vulnerability are abysmal, threatening to plunge the region into the darkness of instability and war. Continue reading
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Gaza starves as EU helps Israel to fight binge-eating
As Gaza starved, the European Union decided to finance an Israeli project on binge-eating. Continue reading
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Germany Was Never Denazified. That’s Why it’s Siding with Israel Today
Germany’s firm stance in support of genocide in Palestine raises the question: How come the country best known for its supposed reckoning with guilt for its past genocide is repeating such similar mistakes? Understanding what Nazism is — not the crimes it committed, but its very nature as a sociopolitical vision — helps us understand… Continue reading
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Europol data grab; “Operationalising” the Migration Pact; Italy: Press freedom under attack; EU-Israel data agreement
Thursday, 25 April 2024 — Statewatch Issue 24/08, 25 April Also available as a PDF. In this issue: New powers for Europol: cart before horse EU: Council eyes role in “operationalising” Migration Pact Italy: Press freedom under attack as journalists face prison EU-Israel data agreement rings alarm bells —————————————- Continue reading
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Statewatch News 11 April 2024: The Migration Pact passes: what next?
Thursday, 11 Apriil 2024 — STATEWATCH Also available as a PDF. In this issue: The Migration Pact passes: what next? Hardwiring border externalisation into EU law “Multipurpose aerial surveillance” as “harm reduction” —————————————- The Migration Pact passes: what next? On Wednesday, MEPs voted to approve the vast majority of new laws that make up the Continue reading
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The European Union’s fires where freedom burns
The European Union shows all the symptoms of a structure in deep crisis. Like other organizations in the past, the more it tries to convey an image of internal cohesion, the greater the fissures it creates, based on the increasingly rigid demand for compliance with the rules that this appearance of cohesion requires. Continue reading
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Statewatch News: Seeing protest as terrorism; Undoing police accountability; Colonial continuities and border security
Protests might be disruptive – indeed, that is often the point – but does that amount to terrorism? The authorities in Spain think so, with terrorism charges laid against 12 protesters who participated in blockades of Barcelona’s airport and a motorway heading towards France, in protest at the jailing of Catalan independence leaders. Continue reading
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Former judge Manfred Kölsch on how the EU’s Digital Services Act will end free speech
The Digital Services Act (DSA) will come into full force in Germany on 17 February 2024 as EU Regulation 2022/2065. Before this date, the Digital Services Act (DDG), which concretises the DSA, is to be passed by the Bundestag without fanfare. Continue reading
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Is the EU Is Willing to Go to War Over Lithium?
The riddle of unhinged EU support for the Zelensky regime in Kyiv is now solved. Anyone inclined can unravel why the Germans, in particular, backstabbed Russia in the Minsk peace boondoggle. Lithium. Continue reading
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Refugee Week: celebration and resistance
Thursday, 22 June 2023 — Institute of Race Relations As we mark Refugee Week, we applaud all those who have taken to the streets to ensure that criticisms of the EU and Greece for creating the conditions for the worst shipwreck in recent Mediterranean history are not staved off by authorities in Greece who have Continue reading
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EU moves against search and rescue?; Frontex takes the lead on deportations; Europol looks across the Atlantic
Thursday, 25 May 2023 — Statewatch News Also available as a PDF. Featuring: European moves against search and rescue missions? Frontex takes the lead on deportations Europol extends its reach across the Atlantic And: European Commission argues for legality of anti-encryption plans; latest documents on new EU migration and asylum laws; border police watchlist “progressing well”; open Continue reading
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Frontex and personal data; Social media deportations; Statement against undercover police abuse
Thursday, 16 February 2023 — Statewatch Issue 03/23, 16 February (also available as a PDF) Frontex and interoperable databases: a vast data trove Social media profiles to facilitate deportations Spain: 88 organisations condemn undercover police abuse And three new analyses: child migration to Spain; the European Union and its crises; EU support for authoritarian regimes. Continue reading
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Spycops in Spain; EU asylum plans; AI Convention draft leak; UK govt attacks basic freedoms
Friday, 3 February 2023 — Statewatch Issue 02/23, 2 February Also available as a PDF statewatch.org / Twitter / Mastodon / LinkedIn / Facebook / RSS Welcome to our latest bulletin, featuring: Special report: Spycops in Spain EU asylum plans: unaccountability and failure First draft of artificial intelligence convention published UK government assault on basic freedoms continues And: Draft European Council conclusions, Dutch police surveillance case, Continue reading
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Europe has enemies within, enemies without
The internal balances of the European Union are significantly transforming as a consequence of the US’ proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. The countries that are close neighbours of the conflict zone — countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic States — have a greater sense of involvement in the conflict in comparison with the… Continue reading
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Statewatch: Join us in Brussels on 25 January at Privacy Camp 2023
In June 2022 EU policing agency Europol received substantial new powers. Legal changes mean the agency can now process data on entirely innocent people, more easily receive and transmit personal data from non-EU states, and is responsible for developing algorithms and other new technologies for police forces across the EU. Continue reading
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Grandson of Charles de Gaulle, an Old CIA Nemesis, Condemns West’s Policy in Ukraine
Pierre de Gaulle, a grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. is making Europeans suffer by fueling the Ukraine conflict and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia. Continue reading
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Corruption in European Parliament: Sakharov Prize in the cross-hairs
According to the Brussels-based daily Le Soir, Belgian investigators into the European Parliament corruption scandal have put under scritiny the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 