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Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
INDEPENDENT Sat, 31 Jul 2010
The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.

There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that's OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We'd still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now mark you, I'm not comparing Israel and Hamas. Israel is the country that justifiably slaughtered more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza 19 months ago – more than 300 of them children – while the vicious, blood-sucking and terrorist Hamas killed 13 Israelis (three of them soldiers who actually shot each other by mistake).

But there is one parallel. Judge Richard Goldstone, the eminent Jewish South African judge, decided in his 575-page UN inquiry into the Gaza bloodbath that both sides had committed war crimes – he was, of course, quite rightly called "evil" by all kinds of justifiably outraged supporters of Israel in the US, his excellent report rejected by seven EU governments – and so a question presents itself. What is Nato doing when it plays war games with an army accused of war crimes?

Or, more to the point, what on earth is the EU doing when it cosies up to the Israelis? In a remarkable, detailed – if slightly over-infuriated – book to be published in November, the indefatigable David Cronin is going to present a microscopic analysis of "our" relations with Israel. I have just finished reading the manuscript. It leaves me breathless. As he says in his preface, "Israel has developed such strong political and economic ties to the EU over the past decade that it has become a member state of the union in all but name." Indeed, it was Javier Solana, the grubby top dog of the EU's foreign policy (formerly Nato secretary general), who actually said last year that "Israel, allow me to say, is a member of the European Union without being a member of the institution".

Pardon me? Did we know this? Did we vote for this? Who allowed this to happen? Does David Cameron – now so forcefully marketing Turkish entry to the EU – agree with this? Probably yes, since he goes on calling himself a "friend of Israel" after that country produced an excellent set of forged British passports for its murderers in Dubai.
EU urged to better relations with US
PRESSTV Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:18:00 GMT
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urges members of the European Union to do more to improve relations with the United States.
EU to remove Sri Lanka trade access
PRESSTV Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:22:05 GMT
The European Union says Sri Lanka would temporarily lose its preferential access to the EU market as the country failed to improve its human rights record.
EU eyes €600bn crisis fund
PRESSTV Mon, 10 May 2010 03:19:44 GMT
The European Union has reportedly called for the formation of a massive fund tasked with helping debt-ridden eurozone economies.
EU warned over blocking Turkey entry
PRESSTV Sun, 09 May 2010 00:14:30 GMT
The European Union would "lose credibility" if it blocks Turkey's entry into the bloc, warns former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.
Cyprus holding presidential election
PRESSTV Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:20:16 GMT
Turkey's European Union aspirations hang in the balance over the results of the presidential election in northern Cyprus, which is being held on Sunday.
Eurozone contagion fears spread to Spain
INDEPENDENT Wed, 17 Feb 2010
Even as the 27 finance minsters of the European Union gathered in Brussels yesterday and ordered Greece, again, to impose yet more hardship on its people in order to slash the national deficit, some may have been eyeing their colleagues around the Brussels meeting room warily.
Who's Obama going to call when he wants to talk to Europe?
INDEPENDENT Wed, 03 Feb 2010
In a humiliating blow to the European Union's new leadership, US President Barack Obama has backed out of an EU summit, drawing attention to a messy power struggle on the Continent.
Eurozone struggling with its worst unemployment crisis
PRESSTV Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:54:44 GMT
Unemployment in the eurozone, 16 EU countries that use the euro as their currency, has reached 10 percent, leaving approximately 15.8 million people unemployed.
EU to restore cooperation with Mauritania
PRESSTV Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:17:25 GMT
The European Union has agreed to completely restore cooperation with Mauritania, sixteen months after a military coup soured relations with the bloc.
New EU foreign policy chief lambastes 'Israeli occupation'
HAARETZ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:14:12 GMT+02:00
Catherine Ashton on Tuesday leveled scathing criticism at the "Israeli occupation," in her first speech as the European Union's first high representative for foreign affairs and security policy. ...
EU Lisbon Treaty enters into force
PRESSTV Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:16:59 GMT
The European Union's first president has officially taken office, following the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the bloc's 27 member states.
EU Lisbon Treaty comes into force
BBC Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:07:29 GMT
The European Union's Lisbon Treaty comes into force, and the bloc's new president and foreign affairs chief take office.
Lady Ashton... well, at least she's not Tony
INDEPENDENT Sun, 22 Nov 2009
As Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the European Union's new High Representative for Foreign Affairs, this weekend surveys her grand suite of offices, with a special corner for her life-sized Dalek, she might still be wondering how on earth she got there.
EU criticized for lack of women in top jobs
PRESSTV Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:08 GMT
Women at the European Union are protesting at the low number of female candidates being considered for the European body's top posts.
Miliband sees his future in UK, not EU
PRESSTV Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:50:18 GMT
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has rejected the chance to become the European Union's first foreign representative.
UN's Ban urges more climate change funds
GUARDIAN Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:18:06 GMT
$100bn on offer is 'good start' but not enough, says Ban Ki-moon Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to "be scaled up" from the $100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said today. Finance is the key, said Ban, to successful negotations on a global treaty to fight climate change, due to conclude at UN talks next month in Copenhagen. Ban also revealed that he will next week meet all the US Senators involved in deliberations over the energy and climate bill. Passage of that bill is seen as vital to negotiations, as without it the US team in Copenhagen will have little domestic mandate to agree a deal. The announcement of the personal intervention of the secretary general is a clear sign of the importance of the matter on the same day that Republicans threaten to boycott a Senate committee debate on the climate bill. Gordon Brown was praised by Ban as having originated the $100bn figure for the total global public and private funding needed each year by 2020 to tackle climate change. It would be spent on cutting emissions by providing green technologies, and on enabling countries to adapt to more frequent fierce storms and rising sea levels. The figure was adopted last week by the European Union as its official negotiating position for Copenhagen and is the only offer on the table so far. "I think it can be a good start but it needs to be scaled up," said Ban. Development groups have estimated the money needed at up to $400bn a year. But the amount by which it would need to increase was uncertain, he said: "We have to see how measures are effective. As time goes by we may need to change arrangements." Ban's senior climate adviser, Janos Pasztor, added: "The needs are obviously much larger and it needs to be scaled up." Developing nations are demanding significant new funding at the climate negotiations, which are continuing this week in Barcelona, and deep cuts in rich country emissions in exchange for pledges to curb their own fast growing carbon emissions. Ban said last week that the negotiations were "gridlocked" but today said that "significant" progress was being made. A critical issue, he said, was a lack of trust between developed and developing nations, which a suitably large financial settlement would help to bridge. "Too many countries have domestic problems," he added, without naming the US and the difficulty President Obama faces getting his climate bill through the Senate. Ban also revealed that he had met all the committee members of the House of Representatives both individually and collectively, before the it passed its climate bill. Ban confirmed that there is now no chance that the Copenhagen summit will produce a legally binding agreement, as there is too little time to work through all the complex details. "Copenhagen will not be the final word." Instead a "politically binding" agreement must be reached, he said, with strong consensus on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, helping nations adapt to a warmer world and finance and technology funds. Ban joins the UN's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the UK government in conceding that a legally enforceable treaty is now unreachable at Copenhagen. But he said: "We don't have a plan B and we are not lowering the bar. We still [retain] the highest possible targets." Copenhagen climate change conference 2009 United Nations Climate change United States Damian Carrington guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Czech court endorses Lisbon treaty
GUARDIAN Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:39:26 GMT
President Vaclav Klaus is last obstacle to full ratification of EU reform treaty after court rules it is in line with constitution The Czech Republic's constitutional court has endorsed the European Union reform treaty, ruling that it is in line with the country's constitution. Today's decision has removed the last legal hurdle for the treaty and intensifies pressure on the Eurosceptic president, Vaclav Klaus, to sign the document. Klaus is the last obstacle to the full ratification of the Lisbon treaty, designed to increase the EU's global influence. He was awaiting the Brno-based court's ruling before deciding whether to endorse the treaty. The court was asked to rule by a group of senators who filed a motion arguing that the treaty was not in line with the constitution. More details soon ... European Union Czech Republic guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Europe jobless rate at 10-year high
PRESSTV Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:32:18 GMT
Unemployment rate in September reached its highest level since 2000 in the European Union and since 1999 in the euro zone, according to a report by Eurostat.
Support for Blair crumbles despite PM's rescue mission
INDEPENDENT Fri, 30 Oct 2009
Tony Blair's prospects of becoming the first EU President were fading last night despite a last-minute plea from Gordon Brown to Europe's leaders to "get real" and back his predecessor for the post.
EU bans old-fashioned light bulbs
BBC Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:01:37 GMT
A ban comes into force in the European Union on the manufacture and import of 100-watt incandescent light bulbs.
US-EU agree to share Gitmo inmates
PRESSTV Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:54:15 GMT
A number of European Union states have made a pact with the US to help shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison by relocating detainees from the detention facility to their countries.
German court to rule on EU treaty
BBC Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:07:24 GMT
Germany's highest court is to rule on whether the Lisbon Treaty to reform the EU is compatible with German law.
Turkey says only 'full EU membership' acceptable
PRESSTV Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:47:45 GMT
Turkey says it will not settle for anything less than a full membership in the European Union, amid strong opposition from France and Germany.
Albania set for parliamentary polls
ALJAZEERA Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:43:39 GMT
Vote seen as crucial for country's bid for European Union membership.
EU to conclude parliament vote
ALJAZEERA Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:25:41 GMT
Voters in 19 countries cast their ballots on the final day of European Union elections.
EU to demand Sri Lanka war probe
BBC Mon, 18 May 2009 02:36:35 GMT
The European Union is expected to call for an inquiry into alleged war crimes by Tamil Tiger rebels and Sri Lanka's government.
Lithuanians vote amid recession
ALJAZEERA Sun, 17 May 2009 16:07:34 GMT
Former European Union budget chief expected to win presidential race.
Spain conditions Turkey's EU membership
PRESSTV Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:46:20 GMT
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero conditions his country's full backing for Turkey's membership in the European Union bloc.
US stimulus plan one way ticket 'to hell'
PRESSTV Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:52:38 GMT
The European Union presidency has slammed the United State's extravagant stimulus package saying such plans are 'a way to hell.'
Russia 'not involved in Iran sanction plan'
PRESSTV Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:41:50 GMT
Russia's UN envoy says the country has not been included in talks on a new EU plan to toughen sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
EU urges unity against financial crisis
PRESSTV Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:21:55 GMT
European leaders have called for greater regulation of financial markets and a united front in face of the global financial meltdown.
The Elite Express Reaches Brussels
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Thu, 12 Feb 2009
We crash and stumble into the 21st Century, blind and furtive and feral. Failed seekers of the post war parental dream of peace and harmony and usefulness. Emotionally plugged into the belief of political integrity and people power, we believed that a fairer world was not just possible but the fight to achieve it was our generation’s task, our purpose, the liberating harness binding us in our common aim. We are the Last of the Believers. Some still scrape at the grim granite rock of reality; at best a futile Pavlovian behaviour, a facile remnant of The Dream and at worse a reactionary tendency previously condemned. Some feel cheated, resentful, angry. Others unshackled themselves and swapped Che for Man Mind Thyself; disconnected, unplugged. Our failing, the taint in our belief, was the assumption that the bright light at the end of the tunnel was of political integrity fuelled by democracy and tended by the sincere. How wrong we were.

The bright light of freedom, democracy and integrity at the end of the tunnel turned out to be halogen glare of the lamp on the front of the Elite Express. We seekers had been lured into the tunnel to be pummelled by this locomotive driven by Thatcher, Reagan, Greenspan, Clinton, Blair and Bush. Its route railed by Murdoch, its engine fuelled by the IMF and World Bank, we, the final burden, were crushed by its speed and power.

Blair watched one million anti-war demonstrators outside his subsidised front door and declared, “Isn’t freedom and democracy wonderful!” as he pressed the war button. Voted in by 27% of the people on a ticket of anti-Thatcherism, he drove the train through Hope with a massive majority in Westminster. Voted the least popular man in the UK, he remained in the drivers’ cab sticking diligently to Maggie’s route but upping the speed. He supported the bloody sanctions on Iraq, he helped attack Afghanistan and enthusiastically helped massacre a million in the illegal assault of Iraq. All in the name of “Peace and Democracy”, of course. All paid for by tax payers’ money and the blood of their children. All that death is for our benefit, was the message.. Join the dots and the title of the picture is very different to the grim meat hook reality of the image. His reward was the position of Middle East Peace Ambassador; mute at the last slaughter, the word ‘irony’ joins the lexicon of ‘the currently meaningless’, alongside: ‘democracy’, ’freedom’ and ‘integrity’. Those who once believed in these terms have no way of getting a refund on their tickets. Dreamers go by bike, remember?

The recent suggestion that Blair is to become the President Without Mandate of the Europe Union must, surely, show those still scratching at the granite rock and those still blinded by the light that there is no democracy, only herd control. There is no integrity, only the cynical exploitation of a Dream. But there is freedom.
EU attacks bank secrecy in tax surveys
PRESSTV Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:47:11 GMT
The European Union has urged governments not to stop exchanging information on possible tax fraud by hiding behind bank secrecy rules.
EU deal won't change MKO terrorist nature
PRESSTV Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:54:13 GMT
The European Union's intent to strike Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) off its list of terrorist organizations will not change its disposition.
Eurozone economic confidence falls to record low in December
XINHUANET Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:15:52 GMT
Economic confidence in the euro zone declined in December 2008 to its lowest level in at least 23 years, a survey from the European Commission showed Thursday.
States of emergency declared across Europe over gas - “If Ukraine is trying to be closer to the European Union, it should not create problems when it comes to the supply of gas to the EU”
TIMESONLINE Thu, 08 Jan 2009
Governments across Europe declared states of emergency and ordered factories to close as Russia cut all gas supplies through Ukraine yesterday in their worsening dispute over unpaid bills.

José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, accused the two countries of taking the EU’s energy supply “hostage” amid a cold snap across the Continent, and urged them to reopen the pipelines immediately.

Sven Alkalay, the Bosnian Foreign Minister, said: “Four million of our citizens are in danger.” Almir Becarevic, the manager of the state gas company, said: “If this lasts it could turn into a humanitarian disaster. We pray that someone can find a solution.”

To try to restart supplies, the EU proposed yesterday that it should send independent monitors to watch the dials on the pipes at Ukraine’s borders. Russia claims that Ukraine is taking gas it has not paid for from the pipelines, reducing the onward supply to Europe. It has responded by cutting supplies in the pipeline by the amount it says Ukraine is stealing.

By checking how much gas is entering Ukraine from Russia and then measuring how much emerges at its western borders with Europe, the EU hopes to establish who is to blame for the shortages.

Mr Barroso said that he had agreement in principle for the process from Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yuliya Tymoshenko, who will send officials to Brussels today to thrash out the details. Mr Barroso spoke to both leaders yesterday, but he said they continued to blame each other. “Prime Minister Putin told me that Russia is providing the gas destined for the EU, Prime Minister Tymoshenko told me that they have created no problems with transit through Ukraine,” an exasperated Mr Barroso said. “The conclusion is clear: if both Russia and Ukraine behave as they say they are behaving, there should be no problem.”

He added: “If Ukraine is trying to be closer to the European Union, it should not create problems when it comes to the supply of gas to the EU.”

Yet 12 countries received no Russian gas at all yesterday: Austria, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bosnia, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. France, Italy, Germany and Poland reported that their supplies from Russia were markedly down.
Turkey 'plotters' trial to resume - "Clear links between state security officers, organised criminals and politicians"
BBC Thu, 23 Oct 2008
The trial of 86 people accused of being part of an ultra-nationalist plot to provoke a military coup is due to resume in Turkey.

"The Ergenekon terror organisation is known as the 'deep state' in our country and organises many bloody activities aiming to create an atmosphere of serious crisis, chaos, anarchy and terror,"

Its purpose, he says, is "to weaken the country's administration [and] justify an illegal intervention against the government."

The prosecutor links Ergenekon to the murder of a secularist judge in 2006 and a grenade attack on the Istanbul office of Cumhuriyet newspaper, a publication known for its opposition to the religious-minded government.

Previously ascribed to an Islamic fundamentalist, the attacks are now described as the first stage of Ergenekon's campaign to stoke divisions and unrest.

Two retired generals have been charged in connection with the case, although their indictment has not been released yet.

Their arrest is unprecedented in a country that has seen four military coups and whose generals have long been a powerful political force.

One of the central pieces of evidence in the case, a document entitled "Lobi", describes Ergenekon as operating "under the Turkish armed forces".

Liberal commentators say the prosecutor has a duty to use this trial for a thorough investigation of the claim, to root-out any rogue elements within Turkey's security forces.

"In Europe, these 'Gladios' or counter-guerrilla organisations were discovered and removed from the state and the army. In Turkey, we never confronted them and what they were doing," says Oral Calislar, a writer for Radikal liberal newspaper.

Many Turks talk darkly of a "deep state" - groups they suspect of links to the security forces since the 1950s, formed to carry out illegal activities, including assassinations, to "protect" the republic.

Their alleged crimes include the murder of many prominent writers and intellectuals and the disappearance and killing of many Kurds during the Kurdish conflict in the 1990s.

First confirmation of those suspicions came in 1996, when the passengers in a fatal car crash in Susurluk revealed clear links between state security officers, organised criminals and politicians.

It emerged that a senior police chief, a prominent MP and a wanted assassin were travelling in the car together. The assassin - a nationalist militant - was carrying government-backed diplomatic ID.

The main perceived threat to the state at that time was Kurdish separatism. Earlier, communism was the danger. Today, it is political Islam and the AK Party.

"I believe there are so many connections with the army. We want to discover all of them with this trial," says Mr Calislar. "We will fight for that because we want to live in a democratic society."

Turkey's democratic transition is what Can Paker believes this case is all about.

The head of the liberal Tesev think-tank describes a power struggle between Turkey's old elite - the civil and military bureaucracy - and a rising urban middle-class. He sees the threat of political Islam as a weapon in the struggle against the AKP and its electorate and suggests Ergenekon emerged from that.
CIA ‘backed’ Irish battle against Brussels treaty
TIMESONLINE Mon, 29 Sep 2008

FIRST it was the sheer ingratitude of the Irish, then it was the failure of the Dublin government to mount a successful yes campaign. Now Brussels has found a new explanation as to why Ireland voted down the European Union treaty in June - a CIA and Pentagon-backed plot, devised by American neoconservatives to weaken the EU.

The European parliament wants an inquiry into whether Declan Ganley, the multi-millionaire chairman of the Libertas group that campaigned against the treaty, could be in the pockets of US defence and intelligence services.


US: Russia cannot stop NATO expansion
PRESSTV Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:32:27 GMT
The US says it will not allow Russia to take advantage of its military victory over Georgia and veto NATO entry for former Soviet states.
Middle East Quartet 'is failing' / 'has lost grip' / exponential settlement growth, additional check-points and - because of this - further economic stagnation
BBC Thu, 25 Sep 2008

The Quartet of international powers has "lost its grip" on the Middle East peace process which it is meant to foster, a group of aid agencies says.

In a damning report, the agencies say the Quartet - Russia, the US, the EU and the UN - is failing in its mission.

Conditions for Palestinians, which it was meant to improve, have worsened since peace talks recommenced under US sponsorship in 2007, the agencies say.

In the West Bank there was an increase in Israeli settlement and travel curbs.

The report was issued ahead of a Quartet meeting in New York on Friday.

"The Annapolis process [launched by the US in November 2007] was meant to herald a new dawn for the Middle East peace process," said Christian Aid director Daleep Mukarji.

"Nearly one year on, we are seeing exponential settlement growth, additional check-points and - because of this - further economic stagnation.

"The Quartet is losing its grip on the Middle East peace process."

There has been no immediate response from the Quartet, whose representative in the region is former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.


Czech EU slogan hits a sour note
BBC Fri, 5 Sep 08 08:45:27 BST
A campaign slogan ahead of the Czech presidency of the EU could be interpreted as euro-sceptic , Rob Cameron reports.
Putin warns against US influence on EU
PRESSTV Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:45:44 GMT
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned European countries against following the US policies in the Moscow-Tbilisi conflict.
EU officials: Keep MKO blacklisted
PRESSTV Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:42:21 GMT
Some European Union members have warned against removing the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the bloc's list of terrorist groups.
EU plans 'spare' 1bn for Africa
BBC Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:31:52 GMT
The European Commission backs a plan to give 1bn euros of unspent EU farm subsidies in aid to African farmers.
EU to block aid to Bulgaria
PRESSTV Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:46:59 GMT
The European Commission has announced it will block $1 billion in aid to Bulgaria for failing to restrain corruption and organized crime.
EU irks US over Cuba embargoes
PRESSTV Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:01:51 GMT
The US has been dealt another blow after it failed to convince its allies in the European Union not to lift sanctions against Cuba.
Mandelson misses Sarkozy event but denies snub
GUARDIAN Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:02:40 GMT
Britain's European trade commissioner to stay away from a dinner hosted by Nicolas Sarkozy
Commentary : GM Crops, World Food & Water Crisis
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Tue, 24 Jun 2008
An astonishing article from the FT... "Nestlé asks Europe to soften line on GM"
Sarkozy warning on EU expansion
BBC Friday, 20 June 2008 08:10 UK
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the European Union will not be able to expand further without ratification of the Lisbon treaty

The BBC's Jonny Dymond says one diplomat described Mr Sarkozy's comments as a threat - and the wrong signal to send to the Irish people - and those of Croatia and Turkey, who hope to join the 27-member bloc.

The treaty must be ratified by all member states to take effect. Nineteen have approved it so far, the latest of which was the UK, where it passed through parliament on Wednesday.

Germany rejected the idea of moving ahead on Lisbon without Ireland, which won strong Czech backing at the summit.

Our correspondent says concern is swirling around the intentions of the Czech government.

Pressed on whether he intended to ratify the treaty, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that he was not going to put the brakes on to halt ratification.

But he added he would not bet 100 crowns (£3; $6) on a "Yes" from parliament.
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