Andrea Janus, CTVNews.ca Updated Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:34PM EST Nine Russian soldiers who were participating in military exercises in Canada have been expelled from the country, as Ottawa continues to denounce Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, CTV News has… Read More ›
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Belgium must pay for asylum-seeking families to rent on the private market when federal housing facilities are full
– the EU high court noted that respect for human dignity requires providing asylum seekers with housing, food and clothes, regardless of the cost to the state. EU Touts Human Dignity for Asylum Seekers By WILLIAM DOTINGA ShareThis (CN) –… Read More ›
EU to force Britons to publish details of wills and property
A bill being debated in Brussels would force UK citizens to disclose ‘reams’ of private, financial information on a public register Mark Field MP said the EU proposals “threaten a family’s right to keep their affairs confidential” By Richard Dyson… Read More ›
Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals
Green Fade-Out By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Brussels The EU’s reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking — jeopardizing Germany’s… Read More ›
The EU is in denial over the euro – its failed currency
While Britain and the US kickstart their economic recovery, Europe clings to its sinking ship Rarely has the economic gulf that separates the English-speaking world and continental Europe looked quite as wide as it does today. While much of the… Read More ›
EU in court threat over English tests for migrants: Brussels warned Britain over ‘xenophobic’ plans
Plan for test outlined by Iain Duncan Smith this week Laszlo Andor told David Cameron to drop proposals Hungarian official branded Britain a ‘nasty country’ last month By Jason Groves and Eleanor Harding PUBLISHED: 19:59 EST, 13 December 2013 | … Read More ›
EU guilty of ‘power grab’ against British justice system, says Dominic Grieve
Attorney General sends warning to EU that is must play within the rules Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General Photo: EDDIE MULHOLLAND By Peter Dominiczak, Political Correspondent 6:26PM GMT 02 Dec 2013 The European Union is “subverting” the rules in its attempts… Read More ›
Brussels Ignores Tip-Offs from Greek Official
Wasted EU Funds Anti-corruption officials in Brussels have failed to investigate reports of squandered EU funds at a training institute in Greece, a German paper reported Friday. Well-connected teachers were allegedly paid up to €610 per hour for up to… Read More ›
EU auditors must tone down criticism of Brussels spending, says Herman Van Rompuy
Europe’s official auditors must tone down their criticism of Brussels spending to avoid negative press coverage and to promote the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy has said. President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy Photo: Getty Images By Bruno… Read More ›
Now the European Union wants to limit all cars to 70 miles per hour
Posted By Eric Owens On 8:44 AM 09/02/2013 In World In its continuing efforts to outlaw anything remotely fun, the European Union has announced plans to forcibly limit all cars to a maximum of 70 miles per hour. Under the… Read More ›
Hungary tells IMF to leave after paying out loan
Tuesday, 16 July 2013 Hungary has announced plans to repay its bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund early and asked the organization to leave the country. The head of Hungary’s Central Bank Gyorgy Matolcsy wrote a letter to… Read More ›
Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations
Reports in Der Spiegel that US agencies bugged European council building ‘reminiscent of cold war’, says German minister Ian Traynor in Brussels, Louise Osborne in Berlin and Jamie Doward guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 June 2013 08.39 EDT The Justus Lipsius building in… Read More ›
Europe Furious over NSA Spying on EU Facilities : ” The US, he added, once the land of the free, “is suffering from a security syndrome,”
‘Out of Control’ By Claus Hecking and Stefan Schultz Senior European Union officials are outraged by revelations that the US spied on EU representations in Washington and New York. Some have called for a suspension of talks on the trans-Atlantic… Read More ›
Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices
SPIEGEL ONLINE 06/29/2013 11:21 PM By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid and Holger Stark America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to SPIEGEL information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation… Read More ›
EU officials ‘targeted’ in US spying programme
30 Jun 2013 BERLIN (AFP) The European Union was one of the “targets” of Washington’s huge Internet spy programme, with bugs hidden in EU offices in Brussels and the United States, German weekly Der Spiegel said in an edition to be… Read More ›
EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants: 1 January 2014
The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers. The European Union is to ban olive… Read More ›
Switzerland shuts doors to EU immigrants
Friday, 26 April 2013 The anti-immigration class across Europe has found many new adherents as of late, especially in the most economically devastated countries, like Greece and Italy. But now these Europeans might themselves become the unwelcome migrants, at… Read More ›
French railway company SNCF accused of banning black and Asian employees during visit of Israeli President Shimon Peres
Alistair Dawber Tuesday, 16 April 2013 A race row has broken out in France over claims that the state railway company, SNCF, made effort to ensure that Israeli President Shimon Peres did not meet black or Asian employees in… Read More ›
Euro parliament ‘an institution where facts are secondary’
The Hungarian prime minister has poured scorn on the European parliament describing it as place where “liberal, left wing and Green MEPs bellow at each other with bulging veins” and as an institution where facts are “secondary”. Mr Orban’s disparaging… Read More ›
Baroness Ashton will be paid £400,000 by the EU to do nothing
Baroness Ashton will be entitled to £400,000 at the taxpayer’s expense over three years for doing nothing after finishing her five year term as the European Union’s foreign minister at the end of 2014. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs… Read More ›
Russian businessmen succeeded in getting their money out of Cyprus before the Levy
Russian oligarchs have outsmarted the EU © Flickr.com/ranil/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 Judging by the russophobic rhetoric of the European authorities and the European media, the rationale behind the artificially created Cypriot crisis was to expropriate the money from “Russian accounts” held in… Read More ›
Three quarters of a million Britons living in Europe could see their savings raided to help save the European Union’s single currency following the Cyprus debt crisis.
British expats in Cyprus face eurozone raids on their savings By Bruno Waterfield, in Brussels 9:43PM GMT 25 Mar 2013 A senior eurozone figure on Monday suggested the plan to save Cyprus could serve as a template for rescuing… Read More ›
Cyprus bank restructuring deal should be considered a template for the rest of the single currency bloc
Dutch Finance Minister and President of the Eurogroup Council Jeroen Dijsselbloem gestures during a joint press conference after a Eurogroup Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on March 25, 2013. Photo: AFP Head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance… Read More ›
THOSE responsible for the sorry state of the economy should be put on trial, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said yesterday
Archbishop: those who are to blame should be put on trial By Poly Pantelides Published on March 24, 2013 Cypriots light candles in Church yesterday THOSE responsible for the sorry state of the economy should be put on… Read More ›
Cyprus considers taxing a quarter of big deposits at largest bank as president prepares to fly to Brussels to discuss eurozone bailout
Finance minister says ‘significat progress’ is being made with proposals expected as early as this evening Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas, Steve Anderson Saturday, 23 March 2013 Cyprus MPs are looking at seizing up to a quarter of the value of… Read More ›
Cyprus rescue in chaos as MPs reject bail-out
Nation could face bankruptcy within weeks after terms of £10bn package are voted down Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas Tuesday, 19 March 2013 Cyprus stood on the brink of bankruptcy tonight after its parliamentarians voted down a bailout deal that would… Read More ›
Asian markets fall amid fears over Cyprus bailout deal
Asian markets have dipped after Cyprus bailout plans triggered fears of an escalation of the eurozone debt crisis. The EU and IMF want all bank customers to pay a levy in return for a bailout worth 10bn euros ($13bn;… Read More ›
Cyprus baulks at painful EU bailout terms: ” I don’t think the banks will open if the bill isn’t passed “
17 Mar 2013 NICOSIA (AFP) Cyprus postponed an emergency debate in parliament on a controversial EU bailout on Sunday, threatening a prolonged closure of the island’s banks as MPs baulk at an unprecedented tax on savings. Fellow eurozone countries and… Read More ›
Cyprus: panic as savings levy is imposed
Cypriots rush to ATMs before savings are docked as part of a bailout deal agreed in Brussels Paul Gallagher and Helena Smith guardian.co.uk, Saturday 16 March 2013 15.14 EDT Cyprus’s rightwing leader Nicos Anastasiades believes his country will default following… Read More ›
Banks saved, but may have lost an entire generation of young people in the process, the president of the European Parliament said.
Banks saved, but Europe risks “losing a generation” By Luke BakerPosted 2013/03/11 at 3:37 pm EDT BRUSSELS, Mar. 11, 2013 (Reuters) — Europe has spent hundreds of billions of euros rescuing its banks but may have lost an entire generation… Read More ›
MEPs to vote on EU ‘ban on all forms of pornography’
MEPs will next week vote on a “ban on all forms of pornography” including censorship of the internet in a bid to “eliminate gender stereotypes” that demean women. MEPs will next week vote on a “ban on all forms of… Read More ›
Germany won’t let Bulgaria and Romania join Schengen zone
Sunday, 03 March 2013 Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has told Der Spiegel magazine that Germany would not allow Romania or Bulgaria to join the European open-border Schengen zone. Often called the Schengen zone, the area incorporates 22 EU member… Read More ›
Horse meat found in British supermarkets ‘may be donkey’
John Lichfield Sunday, 10 February 2013 A law banning horses from Romanian roads may be responsible for the surge in the fraudulent sale of horse meat on the European beef market, a French politician said today. Horse-drawn carts were… Read More ›
White House told to ‘butt out’ of debate over UK’s role in EU
Eurosceptics furious at senior US official’s call for Britain to stay a ‘strong’ member of Europe LAST UPDATED AT 11:26 ON Thu 10 Jan 2013 A SENIOR representative of the Obama administration who said Britain needs to remain a “strong… Read More ›
Brussels fears ‘poverty trap’ for half of Europe as North-South gap widens
Unemployment in the eurozone jumped to a record high of 11.8pc in November as the region slid deeper into recession, with alarming rises across the Mediterranean that threaten extreme social distress. The report said the biggest single cause of the… Read More ›
European Union president Herman Van Rompuy tonight warned that David Cameron’s attempts to return powers to Britain are doomed
UK ‘walking into desert’, European Union president Herman Van Rompuy warns Nigen Morris Thursday, 27 December 2012 European Union president Herman Van Rompuy tonight warned that David Cameron’s attempts to return powers to Britain are doomed – as he… Read More ›
David Cameron has been told he cannot “repatriate” powers from Brussels to Britain because membership of the European Union is “for life”.
Europe is ‘for life’, Francois Hollande tells David Cameron in EU power spat David Cameron has been rebuked by France over his plans to repatriate powers from the EU By Tim Ross, and Bruno Waterfield in Brussels 2:27PM GMT 14… Read More ›
Illness leads Serb ambassador to NATO to suicide
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 15:05 GMT Reuters BELGRADE, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Serbia’s ambassador to NATO who killed himself earlier this week had recently been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, a government official said on Friday. Branislav Milinkovic, 52, jumped… Read More ›
Serbia: ambassador to NATO commits suicide
05 December, 13:31 (ANSAmed) – BELGRADE, DECEMBER 5 – Serbia’s ambassador to NATO, Branislav Milinkovic, 52, committed suicide last night at the Zaventem airport in Brussels, Serbia’s diplomatic delegation confirmed to ANSA. The sources did not indicate the… Read More ›
Give back our money, savers yell at Spain banks
News @ AsiaOne Furious Spaniards who say banks cheated them of their savings took to the streets demanding that the bailed-out lenders give them their money back. -AFP Sat, Dec 01, 2012 AsiaOne MADRID – Furious Spaniards… Read More ›
Insight: Facing austerity, Europe’s bureaucrats chafe : As EU institutions have cellars stocked with nearly 47,000 bottles of red, white and sparkling wine
By Sebastian Moffett and Claire DavenportPosted 2012/11/18 at 5:21 am EST BRUSSELS, Nov. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — Workers protesting austerity on the streets of southern Europe weren’t to know it, but earlier this month there was also a strike at… Read More ›
Ambassador Nikovski wants EU Chief in Macedonia (Aivo Orav) Expelled
Saturday, 17 November 2012 “He needs to be ignored, by all, at all levels. No institution should have any contacts, if Aivo Orav does not publicly apologize. If he refuses to apologize and remains isolated as he most certainly will… Read More ›
Nicholas Mockford’s job at ExxonMobil provides few clues as to a motive for his assassination-style killing. (Work was in alternatives to phthalate )
Nicholas Mockford’s ExxonMobil role provides few clues as to a motive Image 1 of 2 Nicholas Mockford Nicholas Mockford, in the blue coat, with his successful ExxonMobil sailing team after claiming victory in a Channel race last year By Emily… Read More ›
British ExxonMobil oil chief ‘assassinated’ in Brussels street
Update: Nicholas Mockford’s job at ExxonMobil provides few clues as to a motive for his assassination-style killing. (Work was in alternatives to phthalate ) A British executive for the oil company ExxonMobil has been shot dead in front of his… Read More ›
Double-Take: EU ‘Tolerance’ Poster Includes the Cross, the Star of David, And … Wait, What Is That?
Posted on October 19, 2012 at 6:31pm by Becket Adams Journalist and Conservative MEP for South East England Daniel Hannan on Friday posted to his blog the following picture of a Europe4All poster currently on display at the European Commission:… Read More ›
Auditor: EU agencies may pose threat to safety : No oversight, serious conflicts of interest and corruption
12.10.12 @ 09:22 Conflicts of interest in four EU agencies authorising food, medicines, chemicals and aviation security standards might be putting people’s safety at risk, an audit has shown. “None of the four agencies under review manage conflicts of interest… Read More ›
Athens profits from “Samardziev” case, questions EU Report
Thursday, 04 October 2012 Official Athens didn’t waste a moment to confirm what MINA’s Gorazd Velkovski stated on Monday, that the “Samardziev Case” had the Stamp of the Greek Secret Service from day one. Namely, Greece’s MEP in Brussels Yorgos… Read More ›
Eurocrats demand £8 billion in extra national payments to Brussels budget : While others Cut the EU increases spending at twice the rate of inflation
Eurocrats are to demand £8 billion in extra national payments to the Brussels budget fuelling government anger at the “incontinence” of European Union spending. The European Commission will request increased contributions from national treasuries to plug a black hole in… Read More ›
Europe Scraps Airports Scanners… cause cancer
Monday, 17 September 2012 Controversial airport ‘strip-search’ scanners are to be scrapped after they failed to get approval from European bosses. Experts feared the ‘naked’ body scanners, which use X-ray technology to show up hidden explosives or weapons, could emit… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 