More than 100 civil society organizations launch a drive for 1 million European citizens’ signatures to stop European trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories. Sign the European Citizens Initiative now. Brussels – Marking the World Day of Social Justice on February 20 a coalition of more than 100 civil society organizations, has launched a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) to stop trade with illegal settlements in occupied territories. An ECI is an official instrument for democratic participation of citizens in EU policy making. If an ECI garners one million signatures from EU citizens over 12 months the European Commission must consider and debate […]
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Above photo: The European Union-African Union Summit that took place on February 17-18. By showing reluctance on the patent waiver on COVID-19-related products even after the majority of its population is vaccinated, the EU leadership has once again taken the side of Big Pharma and perpetuated vaccine apartheid. As the summit between the African Union and European Union (EU-AU summit) came to a close on February 18, the EU’s dedication to ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 products remained murky. While Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, stated that the two unions had a very constructive discussion on the […]
Above Photo: Office of the President of the United States. (Public Domain). The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia. The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed inward, to prevent America’s NATO and other Western allies from opening up more trade and investment with Russia and China. The aim is not so much to isolate Russia and China as to hold these allies firmly within America’s own economic orbit. Allies are to forego the […]
On a cold morning in February 2013, I led a group of American policymakers and criminal justice practitioners — judges, public defenders, legislators, corrections officials, law professors — on a visit to a juvenile prison in eastern Germany. We met with a group of young men, largely between the ages 18 and 21, who were serving between two to five years at the facility; most had been convicted of a violent offense. Although these young men certainly looked like teenagers or very young adults — dressed in jeans, cargo pants, colorful T-shirts, sweatshirts, and baseball caps — they would certainly not be considered […]
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe announced that its Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has spotted several dozen multiple launch rocket systems and howitzers in the rebel-controlled Luhansk region. The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, os SMM, is an international observer mission created under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to facilitate a peaceful settlement of the ongoing War in Donbass in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine. European military observers said that it saw twenty-two BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, eight 2S1 Gvozdika 122-mm self-propelled howitzers, five 2A65 Msta-B […]
Aerospace and logistics company Thales and the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced on Friday an agreement worth about $202.3 million (167 million euros) for the development of the automated reusable spaceplane. According to a company news release, Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67 %, Leonardo 33 %), and AVIO as co-contractor, signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the automated reusable Space Rider transportation system, designed for deployment by the new Vega C light launcher into low Earth orbit (LEO). As noted by Thales, Space Rider is Europe’s solution for its own affordable and reusable […]
France Defies European Court Ruling Upholding Right To Boycott Israel By Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada. November 19, 2020 France Defies European Court Ruling Upholding Right To Boycott Israel2020-11-192020-11-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/france-e1605829515487.jpg200px200px Above photo: A protester in Toulouse wears a poster depicting President Emmanuel Macron as Marshal Pétain, the Nazi collaborator who headed France’s World War II puppet regime, May 2019. Thousands of people in France are convicted each year for the vaguely defined offense of “contempt of public officials.” Patrick Batard/ABACA. France – The government of President Emmanuel Macron is defying a landmark judgment from the European Court of Human Rights that protects the right of […]
BERLIN (Sputnik) – Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain have expressed concern about Israel’s plans to built nearly 5,000 housing units in the occupied West Bank and called on Tel Aviv to stop all settlement-related activities in the region, according to the joint communique by the foreign ministries of these states. “We are deeply concerned by the decision taken by the Israeli authorities to advance more than 4,900 settlement building units in the occupied West Bank. The expansion of settlements violates international law and further imperils the viability of a two-state solution to bring about a just and lasting […]
BRUSSELS (Sputnik), Luc Rivet – George Soros and his allies in the European parliament are currently celebrating a victory at the European Court of Human Rights against Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the ruling that the country’s law that forced its Central European University out of Hungary contradicts the EU law. This is only the latest of attacks on the Eastern European country and its leader mounted by Europe’s various leftist parties and EU institutions in their ongoing crusade against the so-called illiberal states, which is how they describe Christian right-of-centre governments of countries such as Poland and […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed confidence after meeting Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic that Croatia and other European countries will act to prevent China from accessing their citizens’ private data via 5G networks. Pompeo was speaking to reporters en route to Shannon, Ireland, after visiting to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he also met with Foreign Minister Grlic Radman, and Defence Minister Banozic. “I’m confident that many more European countries now, frankly because of just sharing information with them, they’re going to make their own sovereign decision that says no”, Pompeo said on Friday. “We don’t want our […]
The home secretary said the UK was waiting to return some 1,000 migrants to the European Union states where they first arrived under the terms of the Dublin Regulation, but those countries have put up “legal barriers”. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has accused European Union (EU) member states of breaking the bloc’s rules on seeking asylum. Patel, quoted by The Daily Express, said EU members were putting up “legal barriers” to enforcement of the 1990 Dublin Regulation – meant to ensure asylum seekers claim refuge in the first country they arrive in. “We have EU states themselves not following the […]
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Armenia has asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to pressure Azerbaijan into stopping its military operation against the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan is violating basic human rights by targeting the civilian population and infrastructure and using indiscriminate weapons, Armenia argued. As a top European body tasked with defending those rights, the ECHR can pressure Baku into halting the hostilities, Yerevan believes. A request to do so has been lodged with the court, the office of Armenia’s representative at the ECHR said on Facebook. Also on rt.com 16 killed & 100+ injured in clashes with Azeri troops – Armenia’s Defense Ministry […]
Bitcoin is dropping alongside stocks as soaring cases of COVID-19 threaten economic activity in Europe. Source link
France, Germany and UK say Washington does not have the authority, setting up clash European leaders have warned the US that its claim to have the authority to reimpose sweeping UN-mandated sanctions on Iran has no effect in law, setting up a major legal clash that could lead to Washington imposing sanctions on its European allies. In a joint statement on Sunday, France, Germany and the UK (E3) said any attempt by the US to impose its own sanctions on countries not complying with the reimposed UN ones was also legally void. On Saturday, the US moved to reinstate a range […]
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Finance ministers from five European countries have called on the EU Commission to introduce tough regulation for stablecoins. Source link
The European Environment Agency (EEA) on Tuesday revealed that environmental factors like air pollution and heat waves are responsible for around 13% of all deaths in Europe. Guy McPherson, scientist and professor emeritus of natural resources and ecology at the University of Arizona, joined Radio Sputnik Wednesday to discuss the report. According to the report, a total of 630,000 deaths in the European Union and Britain were caused by environmental factors in 2012, which is the latest year for which data was available. “These deaths are preventable and can be significantly reduced through efforts to improve environmental quality,” the report noted, […]
Nearly half of the teams in the Premier League wrote to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to request that Manchester City’s appeal against a ban from European competition be dismissed, according to a report released Tuesday. Pep Guardiola’s team was hit with a two-year ban from European football and a multi-million Euro fine earlier this year from UEFA’s club financial control body (CFCB) for what they described as “serious breaches” of rules related to licensing and financial fair play. Also on rt.com Back in the mix: Manchester City’s two-year European ban OVERTURNED as club WINS APPEAL The case stemmed from the […]
The EU’s Recovery Plan agreement has been widely hailed, but some argue that it is taking Europe down a dangerous path. Our main discussion features returning guest Tuomas Malinen, CEO of GnS Economics. In this discussion, Tuomas and NLW discuss: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/10/1079908109_0:0:3025:1703_1200x675_80_0_0_6e20c718fe0de83698a250979375a6ee.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007161079908164-trump-administration-reportedly-exempts-european-students-from-covid-19-travel-ban/ WASHINGTON, July 17 (Sputnik) – International students from Europe are exempt from US travel restrictions imposed due to concerns with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported citing a memo the State Department sent Congress. The report said on Thursday that foreign students from Europe, including some family members of visa holders in the United States, are exempt from a travel ban placed on the region in order to contain the spread of COVID-19. The United States has travel restrictions placed on the European Schengen area, the United Kingdom, Ireland, […]
ROME—Hair is being cut in London. People are sunning themselves on the beaches in Italy. Opera is being sung in Vienna. And crowds are watching Fourth of July celebrations across America. But one group of increasingly unhappy people feel they are being shut out of the fun: unmarried long-term couples still separated by travel bans. When the European Union opened its external borders to 14 nations on July 14, thousands of long-term couples who live in separate countries that didn’t make the reciprocal cut are now forced to endure an even longer separation. Many of these couples live separately out of […]
German MPs have followed their UK and French colleagues, backing legislation that carries a fine or even a prison term for taking unsolicited photos under somebody’s clothing. The Bundestag voted in favor of a law on “improving privacy protection” this Friday, thus outlawing the practice. From now on, anyone trying to film under somebody’s clothing in order to see their underwear or private parts will face a fine or a maximum prison term of up to two years. Under existing laws, upskirting was deemed a minor offence punishable only by a small fine. Minister Christine Lambrecht, who championed the legislation, welcomed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107089/39/1070893956_0:0:1280:720_1200x675_80_0_0_9377b3ebc1db6da5e09dc739f69a7cb6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007031079787797-european-space-agency-invites-everyone-to-take-a-flight-over-korolev-crater-on-mars/ The crater was named after Soviet scientist and spacecraft engineer Sergei Korolev, who designed the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, and the first artificial satellite. Dubbed by many as the father of aeronautics, Korolev was also involved in launching the first human into space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has invited everyone to take a tour of the Korolev Crater on Mars as it released breathtaking footage of the 82-kilometre-wide crater. The video, which was compiled from images taken by the ESA’s Mars Express space mission, is made in a way that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107975/24/1079752411_0:105:3072:1833_1200x675_80_0_0_dc30b68fef7c787a6fe9f570114914f5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006291079752442-sputnik-rts-covid-19-coverage-gets-more-online-engagement-than-european-media-study-reveals/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sputnik and RT’s French-, German-, and Spanish-language coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, along with reports in these languages produced by Chinese, Iranian, and Turkish state media outlets, can receive as much online engagement as prominent European news sources, researchers at the University of Oxford said in a Monday report. “State-backed outlets producing coronavirus-related content in French, German and Spanish can achieve higher average engagement per article than prominent news sources such as Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El Pais,” the researchers said in the report. The study, which was conducted over […]
The closing of a long-term deal with a major Greek gas buyer firmly positions Russian Gazprom on the Greek market, which is turning into a battlefield for LNG exporters. Across the planet LNG prices in May-June 2020 have dropped to unprecedentedly low levels – landed seaborne prices still remain below $2 per MMBtu, compelling rivals of LNG to counteract the trend. In the vanguard of those affected is the Russian pipeline gas monopoly Gazprom which expects its exports to drop from the peak of 199-200 BCm per year attained in the last 2 years to some 167 BCm in 2020. Pipeline […]
Genome sequencing data has revealed that the COVID-19 strain responsible for the most recent outbreak in Beijing traces back to a European one, according to recent studies. “According to preliminary genomic and epidemiological study results, the virus is from Europe, but it is different from the virus currently spreading in Europe,” Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official Zhang Yong is quoted as saying in a Friday article on the website of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Reuters reported. “It’s older than the virus currently spreading in Europe.” In addition, Wu Zunyou, the CDC’s chief epidemiology expert, told […]
Donald Trump’s announcement he would be “designating Antifa as a Terrorist Organization” on May 31 focused scrutiny on the network of violent far-left groups espousing “antifascism”, which often enjoy NGO, media and taxpayer support in Europe. By Collin McMahon in Germany “We have a number of investigators at the department that are working with DOJ and working with FBI. We know that they have opened up a number of cases specifically targeting some of the leaders of Antifa and other organizations that are involved,” acting Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf told Fox News. German AfD foreign policy speaker Petr Bystron […]
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the eurozone economy has been significant, according to the European Central Bank (ECB), increasing the underlying financial vulnerabilities of the euro area. The ECB’s May 2020 Financial Stability Review suggests that the euro governments’ vast fiscal response to the pandemic could raise questions over their ability to repay debts, and could revive the threat of countries leaving the single currency. “Should measures taken at the national or European level be deemed insufficient to preserve debt sustainability, the market assessment of redenomination risk might rise further,” the ECB said. “Redenomination risk” refers to the danger of some […]
Berlin hopes to resume inter-European tourist travel by the middle of next month, local media have reported. Chancellor Angela Merkel has been urged by the country’s state politicians to relax the Covid-19-triggered lockdown. Germany plans to lift travel restrictions with 26 EU member states, as well as with the UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland, starting from June 15, DPA reported, citing a draft document set to be discussed by the government on Wednesday. The proposed measure is intended to allow inter-European tourist trips to resume for the summer. The news comes as Merkel is under growing pressure from regional governments […]
Tech 20:56 GMT 18.05.2020Get short URL Many of the supercomputers that suffered “security incidents” over the last week were reportedly being used for conducting research on the novel coronavirus outbreak, work that was apparently obstructed by the attacks. Supercomputers in European countries including Germany, the UK and Switzerland were forced to shut down amid a series of intrusions made with the goal of installing cryptocurrency-mining malware, according to ZDNet. A similar “security incident” was reported from a high-performance computing centre in Spain. The malware reportedly saw the shutdown of the supercomputers as a means of restoring “a safe environment” and rewriting […]
Crypto.com said Friday it has begun shipping its crypto-to-fiat card, the MCO Visa, across the European Union. In total, 31 European countries, including the EU’s 27 member states, now have access to the card that lets users pay in crypto, it said in a blog post. The Hong Kong company received approval to bring the program to the European market in October. MCO Visa was previously only available in the U.S. and Asia. Crypto.com also announced Thursday its U.S. cardholders could begin integrating with Apple and Google Pay. The card works by exchanging users’ crypto for local fiat when the user […]
Sensational revelations from Europe document the deep involvement of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations in the European Court of Human Rights, which has been key in forcing an “Open Borders” policy on countries like Italy. By Collin McMahon In 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) handed down the landmark case of “Hirsi Jamaa and others vs. Italy”, which ruled that European countries could not “push back” illegal migrants and would be fined hundreds of thousands of Euros if they did. The case involved a network of Soros-sponsored lawyers and NGOs who managed to track down 22 Somalian and Eritrean […]
Europe 16:58 GMT 10.05.2020Get short URL Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki praised the ruling by Germany’s Constitutional Court on the EU’s mass-bond buying scheme, which he called “one of the most important rulings in the history of the European Union”. Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc may take legal action against Germany after the country’s highest court came with harsh criticism against the European Union’s top court. The row may strengthen Eurosceptic sentiments, especially in eastern member states, which have previously accused of the bloc of interfering in their internal affairs. “The Commission is now […]