Editor’s Note: (Ralph Turchiano) requested repost from – 2013 Guccifer Hack of Powell The 76-year-old former secretary of state said he met Corina Cretu, a 45-year-old member of the European Parliament, 10 years ago He said they began emailing each… Read More ›
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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 ›
Green MEP Staes: ‘GMO clearly not wanted by majority of members’
Despite 19 out of 28 EU member states opposing a genetically modified crop, it was authorized due to the bloc’s voting system. Green MEP Bart Staes says the Commission would be ill-advised to go against the majority. The European Food… Read More ›
WHO and the pandemic flu “conspiracies” – The BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism report that was covered up
Conflicts of Interest – A joint investigation by the BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that raises troubling questions about how WHO managed conflicts of interest among the scientists who advised its pandemic planning – The… Read More ›
EU gives US six months to lift visas
Wednesday, 05 February 2014 The European Commission has requested that the US lift visas for citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania. If within six months the problem is not solved, the EU could introduce visas for US diplomats,… 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 ›
It Begins: Campaign to create United States of Europe underway
Friday, 10 January 2014 A campaign for the European Union to become a “United States of Europe” will be the “best weapon against the Eurosceptics”, one of Brussels’ most senior officials has said. Viviane Reding, vice president of the European… Read More ›
Merkel compares NSA to ‘Stasi police’ in heated exchange with Obama
Wednesday, 18 December 2013 In an angry exchange with Barack Obama, Angela Merkel has compared the snooping practices of the US with those of the Stasi, the ubiquitous and all-powerful secret police of the communist dictatorship in East Germany, where… Read More ›
British lawmaker calls EU an ‘institution of theft’
Daily Caller News Foundation 9:58 PM 11/22/2013 Member of European Parliament Godfrey Bloom attacked attempts by the international governing body to address tax evasion in Europe, unleashing a volley of criticism that ended in a dire warning for EU lawmakers…. Read More ›
Euro Parliament axes data sharing with US – the NSA swiped the bytes anyway
Hacking claims now probed by Continent’s cops By Iain Thomson Posted in Government, 24th October 2013 18:24 GMT The European Parliament has voted to halt the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), an agreement to share data on financial transactions… Read More ›
Europe Has 880,000 Slave Laborers
A report by the European Parliament says there are 3,600 international criminal organizations in the European Union and that some 880,000 slave laborers live in the 27-nation bloc, including 270,000 victims of sexual exploitation. A European Parliament report seen by… Read More ›
Brussels’ Revolving Door for Top EU Officials
Conflicts of Interest By Christoph Schult and Christoph Pauly Senior European Commission officials have a penchant for changing sides when they join the private sector. They take up positions with Chinese companies, cigarette manufacturers or PR firms — and potential… Read More ›
UK’s GCHQ blamed for cyber attack on Belgian telecoms company
The agency was named in the latest revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden Cahal Milmo Friday, 20 September 2013 Britain is facing a damaging public clash with a European ally after GCHQ was blamed for a cyber attack on Belgium’s… Read More ›
Colin Powell admits to sending ‘very personal’ emails to a Romanian diplomat but DENIES having an affair as a hacker threatens to leak their intimate messages
The 76-year-old former secretary of state said he met Corina Cretu, a 45-year-old member of the European Parliament, 10 years ago He said they began emailing each other in 2005 and ‘the emails became of a very personal nature but… 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 ›
‘I don’t recognize European Parliament’, says Erdogan
After EU criticism towards Turkey. Military repression announced 17 June, 20:25 (ANSAmed) – ANKARA – Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said he does not recognize the European Parliament, Anadolu news agency reported. This comes after an EU resolution… Read More ›
Europe warns US: Do what you like to Americans, but Do Not spy on Europeans
Wednesday, 12 June 2013 The EU has warned President Barack Obama’s administration of “grave adverse consequences” to the rights of European citizens from a huge US Internet surveillance programme, officials said Wednesday. Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, wrote… Read More ›
Cyprus bail-out vote stirs fresh jitters as slump fears grow in Europe
Cyprus has stunned EU officials by ordering a vote in its parliament on the terms of the EU-IMF Troika bailout for the country, risking a rejection by angry lawmakers and a fresh eruption of the crisis. The Cypriot parliament threw… 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 ›
Defiant EU demands extra £9.5b to cover its budget
The European Union has defied Britain’s attempts to control its spending by demanding an extra £9.5 billion to tide it over until the end of the year. Members of the European Parliament Photo: AFP By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 1:13PM… 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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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