“Greece will not become a new Lebanon for Europe, a warehouse of souls,” Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas “ Source: Xinhua 2016-02-25 22:43:21 ATHENS, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — The Greek government recalled ambassador to Vienna, as Athens protests against… Read More ›
EU Erosion
Cash Is King as Europe Adapts to Negative Interest Rates
“ There are financial reasons – including negative rates on deposits….” January 26, 2016 — 7:10 AM PST OliverSuess / Jana Randow Record 1.1 trillion euros of banknotes in use at end of 2015 Euro banknote circulation boosted by economic… Read More ›
Top Psychiatrist: Angela Merkel is Having a Mental Breakdown
“The warning was “circulated among high-ranking security officials in the federal government,” according to the report.” Tuesday, 26 January 2016 Top psychiatrist and best-selling author Hans-Joachim Maaz says Angela Merkel’s refusal to reverse her “completely irrational” policy on accepting… Read More ›
‘No Fingerprints!’ Chant Migrants in Italy as EU Cracks Down
Rome. Some 200 mostly Eritrean migrants protested against asylum rules on the island of Lampedusa on Thursday as the European Union steps up pressure on frontline countries to enforce the regulations. A video posted on a Sicilian news site… Read More ›
New secessionist leader vows to push Catalonia independence cause
10/01/2016 A new secessionist leader has vowed to step up efforts to secure Catalonia’s independence from Spain The candidate set to lead Catalonia’s government pledged to forge ahead with a drive to secede from Spain before a vote late… Read More ›
Reports flood in of sexual assaults against women across Germany as leaked police report states Cologne suspects ‘claimed to be Syrian refugees’
Two teenage girls gang-raped by four ‘Syrian nationals’ in southern Germany 26-year-old student Antonia Rabente a Cologne resident who spoke about the attacks Photo: AP By Justin Huggler in Cologne 12:34AM GMT 08 Jan 2016 Three Syrians have been… Read More ›
Turkey’s President gives Hitler example in call for powers boost
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who wants to expand the powers of his office, has cited Hitler’s Germany as an example of a presidential political system. 2 hours ago Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who wants to expand the… Read More ›
EU turned Greek Doctors into Slaves
“The European Commission passed legislation requiring doctors and interns to work between 60 and 93 hours per week, including up to 32 hours consecutively without minimum daily and weekly rest periods” Court Gives Overworked Greek Doctors a Break By… Read More ›
Hungarian PM: ‘Treasonous Conspiracy to Marginalize Nation States’
Soros responded to Orban by telling reporters “[Orban’s] plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle,” adding “Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the… Read More ›
Germany to reinstate border controls
English.news.cn 2015-09-13 23:59:07 BERLIN, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — Germany will reinstate controls at its southern border with Germany and Austria, German media reported on Sunday. As the German newspaper Bild reported, the Bavarian state government has asked for mobilisation… Read More ›
Fire Sale: German Company Takes Over 14 Greek Airports
Tuesday, 18 August 2015 A German company, airport operator FRAPORT won the bid to operate and maintain 14 regional airports, considered to be top of the top in Greece. With an offer of 1.23 billion euro, the consortium of… Read More ›
Greeks Laugh as Banks Beg them to Return Money
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 President of Greek Banks Association Louka Katseli appealed at the citizens to return their money to the banks. “Banks are absolutely trustworthy,” Katseli told Mega TV “as guaranteed by the ECB and the Bank Association,… Read More ›
Greek bailout agreement: Euro Summit Brussels, 12 July 2015 SN 4070/15
Euro Summit Brussels, 12 July 2015 SN 4070/15 EUROSUMMIT Subject: Euro Summit Statement Brussels, 12 July 2015 The Euro Summit stresses the crucial need to rebuild… Read More ›
It’s done – Greece now Owned by Germany
Monday, 13 July 2015 To save its crumbling economy, Greece was forced to hand over its public assets to an external fund controlled by a German bank, managed by Herr Wolfgang Schaeuble himself. Greece and its international creditors reached… Read More ›
Why Were Banks Given Free Rides, but Greece has to pay?
Sunday, 12 July 2015 The Greek population has been faced with the Eurozone financial elite’s double standard approach and the phenomenon dubbed “dictatorial capitalism” says US publicist Eric Zuesse. There is the gaping abyss between two kinds of capitalism… Read More ›
EU gov’t expenditure accounts for nearly half of GDP in 2014: Eurostat
“Eurostat said in all EU Member States, social protection represented the most important area of general government expenditure” English.news.cn 2015-07-07 20:27:08 BRUSSELS, July 7 (Xinhua) — Total general government expenditure amounted for nearly half of the GDP both in the… Read More ›
Greferendum: 60% of Greeks Reject IMF, ECB and Eurozone
Sunday, 05 July 2015 Some 59.7 percent of voters said “no” to the bailout proposals tabled by Greece’s international lenders, while 40.3 percent voted for the deal, first official results of the Sunday referendum showed.The data was compiled following… Read More ›
Tsipras Pleas for Calm Ignored, Greeks Storm Banks, Gas Stations, Grocery Stores
Monday, 29 June 2015 Just a few hours ago Greek PM Tsipras addressed his nation imploring then to “remain calm” and reassuring them that their “deposits were safe.” It appears the Greeks did not believe him. Many were wondering… Read More ›
Hungary to Build a 175km Wall to Keep Migrants Out
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 Hungary says that it will build a fence along its border with Serbia to keep out migrants. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that officials had been told to prepare a plan for a barrier along… Read More ›
Greek Debt Committee Just Declared All Debt To The Troika "Illegal, Illegitimate, And Odious"
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 It was in April when we got a stark reminder of a post we first penned in April of 2011, describing Odious Debt, and why we thought sooner or later this legal term would become… Read More ›
Greece near Collapse as Citizens Withdraw €700m from Banks in 1 day
Friday, 05 June 2015 While the Greek government believes it may have won the battle, if not the war with Europe, the reality is that every additional day in which Athens does not have a funding backstop, be it… Read More ›
Germany Generously Offers To Freeze The Bank Accounts Of Wealthy Greeks
Sunday, 05 April 2015 Back in 2013, when one cuts through the rhetoric and posturing, what the Cyprus depositor bail-in and subsequent capital controls were all about, was an attempt to confiscate deposits of ultra-wealthy Russian billionaires held the banks… Read More ›
Greece bankrupt next week, creditors are told
Greece bankrupt next week, creditors are told Mehreen Khan Athens PUBLISHED03/04/2015 | 02:30 Greece will go bankrupt within a week, government officials have told their creditors, as the country’s bailout negotiations push the cash-starved government to the wire. A Greek… Read More ›
88 police injured, more than 500 arrested in Frankfurt’s anti-austerity protest
English.news.cn 2015-03-18 23:22:18 FRANKFURT/BERLIN, March 18 (Xinhua)– At least 88 policemen were injured and more than 500 people were arrested after anti-austerity protests in Frankfurt turned into clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday, local media reported. Eight police… Read More ›
Banco de Madrid Files for Bankruptcy
Tuesday, 17 March 2015 Spain’s Banco de Madrid announced insolvency proceedings on Monday as a large amount of clients withdraw money due to the money-laundering scandal affecting its Andorran mother company. Clients rushed to withdraw their money from Banco… Read More ›
Iceland Officially Revokes Bid to Join EU
Thursday, 12 March 2015 Iceland has dropped its bid to join the European Union, the Foreign Ministry in Reykjavik says. The announcement follows pledges made by the country’s euro-skeptic government since winning the 2013 election. Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, the Icelandic… Read More ›
Greek Government Passes Law to Plunder Pension Funds
Thursday, 12 March 2015 Having previously hinted that they might ‘dip’ into public pensions funds for some short-term cash to payback The IMF, and then confirming that the plan is to repo that cash from pension cash reserves (raising concerns… Read More ›
Greece to Seize German Property if Berlin Doesn’t Pay WW2 Reparations
Wednesday, 11 March 2015 Germany says it won’t pay Greece World War 2 reparations after Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said Berlin is using legal tricks to avoid paying compensation. Germany says it’s honored its obligations, while Greece says it… Read More ›
Humanitarian crisis in Greece with closure of ERT news organization and mass layoffs
February 25, 2015 THESSALONIKI, Greece — Over the past weeks, many hours of airtime and many inches of newspaper columns have been dedicated to the controversy of Greek national debt. The “modest proposal” presented by the Greek Government for… Read More ›
Greece: Syriza victory drives wealthy Greeks to London’s property market
By Shane Croucher February 26, 2015 17:27 GMT Greek Prime Minister and leader of Syriza Alexis Tsipras gestures during a parliamentary session in Athens(Reuters) Wealthy Greeks are pulling money out of troubled Greece and sheltering it in London’s prized property… Read More ›
ECB Pulls The Trigger: Blocks Funding To Greece
Wednesday, 04 February 2015 Just what the market had hoped would not happen… •ECB SAYS IT LIFTS WAIVER ON GREEK GOVERNMENT DEBT AS COLLATERAL •ECB SAYS IT CAN’T ASSUME SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF GREECE REVIEW What this means simply is that… Read More ›
Anti-austerity Syriza storms to historic Greek victory
Election victory puts the country on a collision course with the EU and international creditors Radical left party Syriza swept to power in Greece on Sunday promising to end years of painful austerity policies, in an election victory that puts… Read More ›
Greece’s stock market just suffered its worst collapse ever
Greek stocks fell more than at any point during Europe’s debt crisis today after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras gambled his political future on bringing forward a parliamentary vote on a new head of state. Greek stocks are now down 13%… Read More ›
IMF pronounces Bulgaria’s banks safe just two weeks before Bank Run
Friday, 11 July 2014 Earlier this summer, IMF bureaucrats went to Sofia, Bulgaria to study the country’s economic progress. And roughly a month ago, they released an official report which stated, among other things, that Bulgarian banks are “stable and… Read More ›
Spain to charge 0.03% Tax on Bank Deposits
Monday, 07 July 2014 Spain on Friday said it would introduce a blanket taxation rate of 0.03 percent on all bank account deposits, in a move aimed at harmonising regional tax regimes and generating revenues for the country’s cash-strapped… Read More ›
Anti-EU party UKIP wins British Poll / UKIP has won 27.5 percent of the votes, leading all political parties
Monday, 26 May 2014 Britain’s anti-EU political party UK Independence Party (UKIP) topped the European Parliament elections in Britain, marking the first time that a national election in the country has been won by a party other than the Labor… Read More ›
Transdniestria Asks Russia to Initiate Independence Recognition Procedure
Thursday, 17 April 2014 The parliament of Transdniestria, a de-facto independent former autonomous republic of Moldova, passed on Wednesday an address to the parliament and president of the Russian Federation to initiate the procedure for the recognition of the republic’s… Read More ›
Democracy, Human Rights in Europe at lowest level
Wednesday, 16 April 2014 The rule of law in Europe is going through its most severe crisis since the Cold War, a report by the continent’s top human rights and democracy watchdog warns. Most of the European countries are facing… Read More ›
Athens bans protests for EU meeting
Greek police have banned protests in central Athens ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers in the capital. Demonstrators will be barred from areas including Syntagma Square, the focus of recent anti-austerity protests. EU finance ministers are expected… Read More ›
Europe says No to drug data access ” arguing that this would undermine commercial interests and that there was no overriding public interest in disclosure”
Public release date: 10-May-2011 – Request Repost Drug regulators are protecting profits over patients, warn researchers Analysis: Opening up data at the European Medicines Agency Medicines regulators are protecting drug company profits rather than the lives and welfare of patients… Read More ›
Venice: 89% vote for independece from Italy
Sunday, 23 March 2014 Over 89 percent of residents in Italy’s Veneto region have voted in an unofficial referendum in favor of independence from the rest of the country as Venetians seek to restore the glory of the old days… Read More ›
If Russia Gets Crimea, Should Germany Get Kaliningrad?
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Mar. 20 2014 21:29 Vladimir Filonov / MTA view of the Gothic-style Konigsberg Cathedral in Kaliningrad, Russia. In the tug-of-war between Russia and the West, some states are apparently more equal than others when it comes to correcting “mistakes” of the… Read More ›
Venice wants to secede from Italy
Sunday, 16 March 2014 Voting begins Sunday on a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic. La Serenissima — or… Read More ›
3 South Ukrainian Cities Want to Join Crimea – Lawmaker
– Mykolaiv, Kherson and Odessa Tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea (Archive) © RIA Novosti. Taras Litvinenko 02:47 04/03/2014 SIMFEROPOL, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – A senior Crimean lawmaker said on Monday that representatives of three southern Ukrainian administrative capitals expressed willingness… Read More ›
Crimea Council Resolves Region To Become Part Of Russia
(13:42, Thursday, March 6, 2014) Ukrainian News Agency The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea at the closed meeting on Thursday has resolved the region to enter Russia as a constituent territory of the Russian Federation, reads the… Read More ›
EU matches Putin’s €11 billion financial offer to Ukraine
Published 05 March 2014 Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced today (5 March) a financial package for Ukraine of approximately €11 billion, matching Russian President Vladimir Putin’s previous offer, which led to Kyiv not signing the Association Agreement with the… Read More ›
Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet tells EU’s Cathy Ashton about claim that provocateurs were behind Maidan killings
Russia Tries to Woo Back Moldova
By Christian Neef As Moldova prepares to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, Russia is stepping up attempts to keep the country in its fold. It has found some willing helpers in the country. If Mihail Formuzal had… Read More ›
Billionaire Kolomoisky takes over in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, blasting Putin and Yanukovych
– Kolomoisky referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a small-sized schizophreniac” who “went insane” and whose attempts to “revive the Russian Empire to the 1913 borders can bring world to disaster.” March 3, 2014, 9:36 p.m. Ukraine — by … Read More ›
USAID got Maidan coup up and running – media
3 March 2014, 11:29 EEV: Needs to be validated, separating propaganda (i.e. Voice of Russia) from fact requires time. George Soros has a long history of interfering in national politics (i.e. Balkan Conflict ), Open Society in the Ukraine, U.S. Presidency… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 