European Union (EU)

Defense Of European Empires Was Original NATO Goal

March 31, 2019 Yves Engler, YvesEngler.com. Educate! Canada, Empire, European Union (EU), NATO

From the outset Canadian officials had an incredibly expansive definition of NATO’s supposed defensive character, which says an “attack against one ally is considered as an attack against all allies.” As part of the Parliamentary debate over NATO external minister Lester Pearson said: “There is no better way of ensuring the security of the Pacific Ocean at this particular moment than by working out, between the great democratic powers, a security arrangement the effects of which will be felt all over the world, including the Pacific area.”

Protests Across Europe Highlight Rifts Over Copyright Bill

March 24, 2019 By Deutsche Welle. Resist! Copyright, European Union (EU), Internet Freedom

European Union - Tens of thousands of people across Europe staged protests on Saturday against the European Union's planned copyright reform bill. In Germany alone, 40 rallies took place, alongside demonstrations in Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal. Munich police said 40,000 protesters turned out under the motto "Save our internet." Organizers said Berlin's protest (pictured above) drew 30,000, with participants walking past the center of Germany's collaborative Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Police put the number of protesters at 10,000.

Exxon Could Be Next US Corporation To Face EU Lobby Ban

March 24, 2019 Eoin Higgins, Commondreams. Educate! European Union (EU), Lobbying, Monsanto, Oil and Gas

ExxonMobil could soon join Monsanto as one of the only two companies not allowed to lobby European Union lawmakers. The oil giant, one of the world's largest energy companies, was a no-show at a climate change denial hearing in Brussels Thursday, prompting the action. In a statement, ExxonMobil said that it was unable to attend because of "ongoing climate change-related litigation in the U.S." That wasn't good enough for Molly Scott Cato, a Green Party member of the European Parliament. In a statement, Green said a company which had spent millions on climate denial and then ducked responsibility for its actions didn't deserve the right to promote itself in the EU.

European Court Of Justice Orders EU Regulators To Publicly Release Secret Industry Glyphosate Studies

March 11, 2019 Staff, Sustainablepulse.com Educate! Courts, European Union (EU), glyphosate, Regulation

Glyphosate is a chemical product used in pesticides which are plant protection products and is one of the most widely used herbicides in the EU. Glyphosate was included on the list of active substances for the period from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2012. That listing was temporarily extended until 31 December 2015. In view of the renewal of approval of the active substance glyphosate, Germany, as Rapporteur Member State, submitted to the Commission and to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) a ‘draft renewal assessment report’, published by EFSA on 12 March 2014.

Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention For Peaceful Solution

February 27, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Educate! European Union (EU), Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Venezuela

"It is very clear: we must avoid military intervention," said Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. The European Union is urging the world to abandon a “militarized intervention” into Venezuela, calling for dialogue to develop a “peaceful, political, and democratic” solution to the nation’s domestic political differences. "What is explicitly quite clear, from our perspective, is that we need a peaceful political and democratic and Venezuelan-owned resolution which obviously excludes the use of force,” said Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

Confronting The U.S./EU/NATO Axis Of Domination

February 14, 2019 Ajamu Baraka, Blackagendareport.com Educate! European Union (EU), Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism

The hypocrisy and confusion on the issue of race and white supremacy revealed itself once again in the United States with a governor dressed in blackface and a decision by the Trump administration and supported by the European Union to execute a coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela. And while Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was outed as a racist when photos surfaced from his yearbook as a medical student in the 1980s that depicted him in either blackface or in a KKK outfit, the assumption that the U.S. and European Union had the right to determine the leadership of a nation in the global South escaped the same condemnation as a racist act of white supremacist power.

“The Resistance” And The Gilets Jaunes

January 6, 2019 Max Parry, Off Guardian. Educate! Brexit, European Union (EU), France, Gilets Jaunes

In less than two months, the yellow vests (“gilets jaunes”) movement in France has reshaped the political landscape in Europe. For a seventh straight week, demonstrations continued across the country even after concessions from a cowing President Emmanuel Macron while inspiring a wave of similar gatherings in neighboring states like Belgium and the Netherlands. Just as el-Sisi’s dictatorship banned the sale of high-visibility vests to prevent copycat rallies in Egypt, corporate media has predictably worked overtime trying to demonize the spontaneous and mostly leaderless working class movement in the hopes it will not spread elsewhere.

EU Pushing For Euro To Challenge Dollar’s Role

December 7, 2018 Staff, Atimes.com Create! Currency, European Union (EU), Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, US Imperialism

The European Commission is expected to publish a blueprint to promote a “stronger international role” for the euro in the face of policies pursued by the Trump administration, it was reported on Monday. The Financial Times says that a draft of the document stresses a need to address recent challenges to “international rules-based governance and trade.” As part of this, the plan calls for political pressure to make contracts denominated in the euro.

A Good Step Forward But Not Enough, Say Climate Campaigners Of EU’s Proposal To Go Climate Neutral By 2050

December 3, 2018 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Strategize! Climate Change, European Union (EU)

Climate campaigners welcomed what they saw as a "step forward" and "glimmer of hope" following the European Commission's announcement Wednesday that it had set a goal of 2050 to get to net zero climate emissions. But, they warned, the plan still doesn't go far enough to avert planetary crisis. "Going climate neutral is necessary, possible, and in Europe's interest," statedCommissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete. He added that it "is in Europe's interest to stop spending on fossil fuel imports and invest in meaningful improvements to the daily lives of all Europeans." The latest IPCC report, Arias Cañete told reporters, was "a real wake-up call," and "today we are responding to this call."

The EU’s Link Tax Will Kill Open Access And Creative Commons News

October 29, 2018 Cory Doctorow, Eff.org Educate! European Union (EU), Open Access, Taxes

All this month, the European Union's "trilogue" is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of extremist copyright proposals were added and voted through. One of these proposals is Article 11, the "link tax," which requires a negotiated, paid license for links that contain "excerpts" of news stories. The Directive is extremely vague on what defines a "link" or a "news story" and implies that an "excerpt" consists of more than one single word from a news-story (many URLs contain more than a single word from the headline).

The EU Needs A Stability And Wellbeing Pact, Not More Growth

September 20, 2018 Staff, Theguardian.com Create! Capitalism, European Union (EU)

This week, scientists, politicians, and policymakers are gathering in Brussels for a landmark conference. The aim of this event, organised by members of the European parliament from five different political groups, alongside trade unions and NGOs, is to explore possibilities for a “post-growth economy” in Europe. For the past seven decades, GDP growth has stood as the primary economic objective of European nations. But as our economies have grown, so has our negative impact on the environment. We are now exceeding the safe operating space for humanity on this planet, and there is no sign that economic activity is being decoupled from resource use or pollution at anything like the scale required.

The EU’s Looming Internet Catastrophe

September 9, 2018 Cory Doctorow, Activist Post. Resist! Censorship, European Union (EU), Internet Freedom

In exactly one week, the European Parliament will hold a crucial debate and vote on a proposal so terrible, it can only be called an extinction-level event for the Internet as we know it. At issue is the text of the new EU Copyright Directive, which updates the 17-year-old copyright regulations for the 28 member-states of the EU. It makes a vast array of technical changes to EU copyright law, each of which has stakeholders rooting for it, guaranteeing that whatever the final text says will become the law of the land across the EU.

Europe Says ‘Go Home’ in Every Language To Migrants

July 8, 2018 By Ramona Wadi, Mintpress News Educate! European Union (EU), Human Rights, Immigration

The EU chose to uphold a punitive stance against migrants, many of whom hail from sub-Saharan Africa and are fleeing the long-term consequences of war, poverty and plunder. Libya, which has become a main departure point for those seeking to escape, is a hub of torture, trafficking and exploitation that the international community aided in creating. Following a summit in Brussels, the EU criticized NGOs that rescued migrants at sea and proposed measures that would keep migrants away from the bloc. It discussed setting up processing centres in North Africa and, for migrants who manage to reach Europe, “controlled areas” for processing. According to the European Commission’s President Donald Tusk, the proposals would form “the most effective mechanism to break the smugglers’ business model — to discourage migrants and smugglers [from taking] this very risky route using vessels on the Mediterranean Sea.”

EU Anti-Torture Ruling Shows Need For UK Public Inquiry

June 2, 2018 Reprieve.org, Popular Resistance Resist! European Union (EU), Torture, United Kingdom (UK)

WASHINGTON - In a significant anti-torture ruling, the European Court Of Human Rights has held that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by allowing them to be detained at CIA ‘black sites’ on European soil. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was subjected to "inhuman treatment” at the secret prison in Romania, which operated from 2003-2005. Abu Zubaydah was tortured at a black site in Lithuania that the CIA ran from 2005-6. The new CIA director, Gina Haspel, oversaw the torture of Mr al Nashiri at a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002. Romania and Lithuania also allowed the CIA to transfer the men to other prisons, the judges found, exposing them to “a foreseeable serious risk of further ill-treatment”.

EU Unveils Plans To Block Donald Trump’s Sanctions Against Iran

May 19, 2018 Jon Stone Brussels, Independent.co.uk Educate! European Union (EU), Iran, Sanctions, Trump Administration

Leaders approve 'blocking clause' to protect European companies. Brussels has unveiled details of measures that would block American sanctions against European companies trying to do business with Iran, in a bid to head off Donald Trump’s new economic assault on the Middle Eastern county. The US president announced the re-introduction of the anti-Iran sanctions as he confirmed US was breaking the international deal designed to put a stop to the country’s nuclear programme – with the end to sanctions as a reward for compliance. Mr Trump’s administration has not ruled out hitting European companies that trade with Iran with its new measures, so the EU has now responded by updating a “blocking statue” originally meant to circumvent a the US embargo against Cuba in the 1990s.

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