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February 10, 2012

Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials
Greece's largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country's European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures.
Read news report at reuters.com

February 8, 2012

The bailout money won't go to ordinary Greeks
If you're wondering why Greece is being so obstreperous about the money it's being offered, ponder this chart. Of every euro given to 'Greece', the Greek authorities get to spend just 19 cents; the rest goes on rescuing bankers and bondholders from the consequences of their malinvestments. Yet again, the poor are bailing out the rich.
See pie chart in blog entry by Daniel Hannan on the Daily Telegraph website (UK)

February 2, 2012

EU cohesion funds spent on 'harmful' projects
A new report claims that "substantial" environmental and social harm is being caused by EU-funded projects. Friends of the Earth Europe and CEE Bankwatch Network mapped 33 "harmful" projects in central and eastern Europe with total costs of €16bn.
Read article at theparliament.com

February 1, 2012

Ireland begins bitter referendum debate
“Fiscal treaty designed to avoid Irish referendum,” headlines the Irish Times. According to Irish law, all new EU treaties must be put to a national plebiscite. However, an anonymous EU official has told the Dublin daily that the fiscal treaty agreed on Monday January 30 “was specifically crafted” to avoid the scenario of the Lisbon treaty referendum of 2009, which was rejected, thus delaying its coming into force. Conceding that the decision to hold a vote could well go to the Irish Supreme Court, the official argued that a referendum has “nothing to do with democracy.”
Read article at presseurop.eu
Comment:Previously, in 2009, to obtain a “Yes” vote from the people of Ireland for the ratification of the dictatorial Lisbon Treaty, the “Brussels EU” resorted to unlawful interference, threats and propaganda. This time around, to ensure the passing of the draconian Fiscal Treaty, it will try to take whatever steps are necessary to avoid giving the Irish people a referendum on their economic future. As such, for anyone who was still naively assuming that the “Brussels EU” construct is a democracy, the above report provides positive proof that, in reality, it is already an outright dictatorship.

February 1, 2012

EU fiscal pact tramples on national sovereignty – Klaus
Prague - A EU fiscal union on the continental level absolutely tramples on the sovereignty of the individual countries and recent statements by some German politicians proposing that Greece have a EU protectorate point to this, Czech President Vaclav Klaus told today´s Pravo daily.
Read article at ceskenoviny.cz (Czech Republic)

January 31, 2012

Dutch minister: Border cameras do not break EU law
The Dutch interior minister has told Brussels his new border cameras will catch illegal immigrants without breaking EU rules. Gerd Leers defended the project - which has already seen military-grade surveillance technology installed on main roads from Belgium and Germany - in a letter sent to the European Commission on Friday (27 January) and seen by EUobserver.
Read article at euobserver.com
Comment: Surveillance cameras are only one of an increasingly large number of high-tech methods being used to monitor citizens and enforce dictatorship in “Brussels EU” countries today. To read more about the types of surveillance being conducted on European citizens, click here to read chapter 5 of “The Nazi Roots of the 'Brussels EU'”.

January 31, 2012

EU summit: UK and Czechs refuse to join fiscal compact
Twenty-five of the EU's 27 member states have agreed to join a fiscal treaty to enforce budget discipline. The Czech Republic and the UK refused to sign up. UK Prime Minister David Cameron said his government would act if the treaty threatened UK interests.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)

January 30, 2012

Merkel to join Sarkozy on campaign trail for French presidential election
Merkel's plan to make joint appearances with Sarkozy is seen as highly unusual but also a sign of things to come in Europe.
Read article at newspano.com Comment: The future Europe that Merkel and Sarkozy are trying to bring about is a precise copy of plans prepared seven decades ago for a post-WWII Europe under the rule of the IG Farben/Nazi coalition. We have published the original 1941 blueprint for these plans – as designed by the IG Farben/Nazi coalition – online. For anyone who cares about the future of not only Europe, but also the entire world, this blueprint – as well as other related documents – is now a “must read.” This information is particularly relevant for all those politicians who still naively believe that Merkel and Sarkozy are serving the interests of the people of Europe. In reality, there was no democratic control in the “New Europe” proposed by the Cartel/Nazi coalition in 1941 – and there is no democratic control in the “Brussels EU” promoted by the Cartel/Merkel/Sarkozy coalition today. To learn more about the 1941 IG Farben/Nazi blueprint for Europe, click here. To learn more about the Nazi Roots of the Brussels EU, click here.

January 24, 2012

Austerity Treaty: no democracy without referendums
The only way the public is likely to be consulted on the changes to the European Union that are being made in re­sponse to the euro crisis, is if citizens force governments to hold referendums. This urgent battle for democracy must be won.
Read article on the Corporate Europe Observatory website

January 23, 2012

What are bankers doing inside EU summits?
Crucial decisions “to save the Euro” and “to save Greece” were made at the Euro Summits in July and October 2011. While the decision making process was taking place, the press reported several informal negotiations between EU leaders and the banks, mostly represented by the Institute of International Finance (IIF). What was exactly the role of this lobby group in the final decisions? And what did it get from the deal?
Read article on the Corporate Europe Observatory website

January 23, 2012

Croatia's EU leap
The referendum in Croatia on whether to join the European Union has come out in favour. If all goes to plan, the state of 4,300,000 people on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea will become the 28th member of the bloc by July 2013. But although two thirds of voters said 'yes', just 44 percent of those eligible to participate did so in Sunday's ballot.
Read article at euronews.net
Comment: Behind the headlines claiming that 67 per cent of voters in Croatia voted in favour of joining the 'Brussels EU' lies quite a different story, namely, that only a minority of the population – 44 per cent – actually voted. As such, in real terms, with a mere 29 per cent of people voting in favour, 15 per cent voting against and around 56 per cent effectively abstaining, the vast majority of Croatians have clearly not given their support to their country being ruled by the dictatorial 'Brussels EU' construct.

January 12, 2012

Banks profit on hunger
European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to Farming Money, a new report just released.
Read article on the Corporate Europe Observatory website

January 12, 2012

Italy MPs block arrest of Berlusconi ally Cosentino
ROME – Italy's parliament voted on Thursday to block the arrest of lawmaker and ex-treasury official Nicola Cosentino, a close associate of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, on accusations of mafia associations. Naples magistrates had asked parliament to lift the immunity from the arrest of Cosentino, a member of Berlusconi's People of Freedom party who is being investigated on charges of links to the Camorra, the Naples-area mafia. Cosentino has denied the accusations. In a secret ballot, parliamentarians in the lower house voted 309 against arrest and 298 in favour.
Read article in the Toronto Star (Canada)
Comment:As the Irish Times has observed, Brussels EU technocrat (and Bilderberg steering committee member) Mario Monti might have been the Italian prime minister since last November, but Berlusconi still has control of the country's parliament. To learn more about the mafia connections of the Brussels EU, click here and here.

January 11, 2012

Doomsday Clock moves one minute closer to midnight
The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of nuclear danger, has moved one minute closer to midnight because of “inadequate progress” on nuclear and climate issues. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced the move - to five minutes before midnight - on Tuesday. The clock last moved one minute back in 2010. BAS said the failure of multiple nations to control the spread of nuclear weapons was a cause for worry.
Read article on the BBC News website (UK)

January 4, 2012

Zagreb launches EU referendum campaign
Croatia officially launched, on 3 January, a campaign ahead of its referendum on EU membership, which is scheduled for 22 January. Croatian EU opposition groups are already criticising the late start of the campaign, arguing that 19 days are not enough to open a fair discussion with citizens to explain the pros and cons of the country becoming the EU's 28th member.
Read article at europolitics.info