Europe
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Engdahl on France: Cutting pensions instead of military spendings?
Frederick William Engdahl, an American writer and journalist based in Germany, questions the reform saying it could be aimed at protecting tiny elite in France. Continue reading
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The Revolt Shaking France
This revolt is the latest in a wave of struggles that have rocked France over more than a decade, dating back to a wave of public-sector strikes in 1995 that stopped a conservative government from imposing changes to the pension system. Continue reading
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Thank God for France By Mike Whitney
Thank God for France. While American liberals tremble at the idea of sending an angry e mail to congress for fear that their name will appear on the State Department’s list of terrorists, French workers are on the front lines choking on tear gas and fending off billyclubs in hand-to-hand combat with Sarkozy’s Gendarmerie. That’s… Continue reading
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France paralyzed over retirement age rise
In France, public transport is paralyzed, flights cancelled and one million people protesting, demanding the government backs down from retirement age reforms. The protests erupted into violence after President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed his conservative party would press ahead with raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty-two, still lower than in most European countries. Young… Continue reading
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Yanis Varoufakis, “First as History, Then as Farce: The Euro Crisis Revisited”
When the Crash of 2008 hit Wall Street, European capitalism was thrown into disarray. With the demise of the export-absorbing monster that was the US consumer market, what in 2003 Joseph Halevi and I called ‘The Global Minotaur, Europe not only lost a critical source of aggregate demand but also discovered that its own banks… Continue reading
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France shows the way
Government estimates put the total number of protesters at around 850,000, while unions said between 2.5 million and 3 million had taken to the streets. Continue reading
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Joseph Halevi, "Beijing's Europe"
The widening of the conflict over exchange rates means that major capitalist countries are now trying to ‘solve’ the crisis by grabbing slices of each other’s markets through exports. For the US, though, the official issue is how to reduce the dependence upon the external deficit given that the crisis has highlighted the damage done… Continue reading
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The Protest Movement. Financial Fraud in Iceland By Rady Ananda
As proceedings begin against Iceland’s former Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, for the banking crisis of 2008, at least two thousand Icelanders took to the streets in two days of protest this weekend. Iceland joins over a dozen other nations protesting economic measures taken out on the public while banks and large corporations receive bailouts. Class… Continue reading
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The Neoliberal Experiment and Europe’s anti-Austerity Strikes: Governments must Lower Wages or Suffer Financial Blackmail By Michael Hudson
Most of the press has described Wednesday’s European-wide labor demonstrations and strikes across in terms of the familiar exercise by transport workers irritating travelers with work slowdowns, and large throngs letting off steam by setting fires. But the story goes much deeper than merely a reaction against unemployment and economic recession conditions. At issue are… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 1 October 2010 (17/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Parliaments to have no say over the “harmonisation” of national ID cards EU: Schengen Information System: SIS II to hold 100 million records EU-FRONTEX: AI and ECRE: Briefing on Commission proposal USA: Government Accountability Office: Fusion centres UK: European Commission: Refer UK to Court over data protection EU: “State… Continue reading
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Renaissance of Ethnic Separatism In ‘United Europe’ By Pyotr ISKENDEROV
New serious inter-ethnic conflicts are brewing in Europe as it battles the global economic crisis. Typically they are deeply rooted in history, but the very fact that the renaissance of ethnic separatism in Europe is taking place in the epoch of European integration is noteworthy. Obviously, the enlargement of NATO and the EU neither brought… Continue reading
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“Kosovo is as independent as Vichy France” – RT Top Stories
‘Kosovo is as independent as Vichy France was in WWII. It’s a puppet state. It suffers from endemic corruption, abuse of power. Its governmental structure can be better described as organized crime,’ the journalist added. Continue reading
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Keiser Report 62: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals with stolen credits and the debt in Europe. In the second half of the show, Max talks to his guest Gregor MacDonald about the role of energy in US economy. Continue reading
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The Gods of Money – German style By F. William Engdahl
The German banks played casino with Wall Street and now demand austerity from Greece Continue reading
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“The People of Greece Are Fighting for the Whole of Europe”: Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot Discuss Greece’s Economic Crisis and Popular Uprising
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have approved a nearly $1 trillion package to stop Greece’s debt crisis from spilling beyond its borders into the rest of the eurozone. Stocks surged in Europe, Asia and the United States Monday after EU leaders agreed to a $960 billion package to contain Greece’s financial troubles.… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: Statewatch Analysis: The right to protest: “Troublemakers” to be recorded on database and targeted
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. UK: Metropolitan Police and the killing of Blair Peach in 1979: 2. ITALY: COE: Committee on Torture concern at detention regime for terrorism suspects 3. EU: Council of the European Union:Justice and Home Affairs Council 4. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 23… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 20 April 2010 (07/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ The European Commission is about to adopt its Action Plan on the Stockholm Progamme: 1. European Commission: Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme: Statewatch Analysis: A bit more freedom and justice and a lot more security by Tony Bunyan: www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-95-stockholm-action-plan.pdf “The ‘harnessing of the digital tsunami’ as advocated by the EU Future… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 31 March 2010 (06/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EP: Surveillance of the sea external borders with the involvement of Frontex 2. MALTA: Grupp29: Stop the criminalisation of art Maltese authors and artists 3. EU: Council: rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings 4. EU-ISRAEL: Should the EU subsidise Israeli… Continue reading
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Hedge funds deliberately undermining Euro – RT
Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are looking closely at euro trades, following reports that leading US hedge funds have been in collusion to undermine the European currency through the crisis in Greece. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are probing euro-trading on financial markets. Continue reading
