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Plastic Paddy
#FBPE?
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Starry Wisdom
fuck beans, pulses and eggs
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finds beef periodically emetic
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Follow Back pro-Europe. Twitter shit.
Almost always espousing pretty vacuous, one dimensional views that say nothing of the hugely complex issues surrounding EU membership but hinge the argument on some fairly domestic issue that's only tangentially related to brexit.
FBPE types would welcome Napoleon and Hitler as fellow travellers given their penchant for uniting Europe
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Most of them are nothing like that principled - they're not interested in a united Europe, it's all about personal convenience and apparent slights.
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Starry Wisdom
urban in 8 words
gosub
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German agency suspends certification for Nord Stream 2 – DW – 11/16/2021
The controversial gas pipeline connecting Germany and Russia has been completed — but German officials have now blocked its certification process.
m.dw.com
gosub
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This is bigger and more complex than I thought
LEAK: What the EU's future military strategy could look like
The blueprint of the so-called Strategic Compass, the European Union’s upcoming military strategy document, seen by EURACTIV, will be formally submitted to EU foreign ministers next Monday (15 November).www.euractiv.com
Kissenger (who is going to hell) and supported UK involvement in the EU, once said "what the US wants from EUrope is one man they pick up the phone to. .....That's looking quite the zoom call.
I'm not sure if any of that is even going to require treaty change. Most of the stuff there member states signed off on over a decade ago so therefore could be more budget tweeks signed off by EUropean Parliament. Stuff like EUFOR and EUNAVFOR that Blair(and Brown) signed of on. At the time 'EU stuff, thats all bendy bananas.' seemed to be the narrative.
Never really did get the debate EU needed, Lost, drowned out by one that might as well have been "four legs good, two legs bad."
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Maybe Satan thinks he'll lower the tone of the place?
Frightened of competition perhaps?
Flavour
hang the bankers
More on that Eu-funded project that The39thStep mentioned to collect African fingerprints to facilitate their deportation should they ever dare try and cross the Med:
privacyinternational.org
Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds
The “EU Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa” (EUTF for Africa) isn’t exactly headline news (and nor does it exactly roll off the tongue), but its influence is vast and will be felt for decades to come for millions of people ac
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Don't forget contempt for the working classes and their horrendous thoughts, proclivities and moral failings. We need the EU to keep them down.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
The remainers assertion that the EU is quite liberal is bollcks .More on that Eu-funded project that The39thStep mentioned to collect African fingerprints to facilitate their deportation should they ever dare try and cross the Med:
Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds
The “EU Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa” (EUTF for Africa) isn’t exactly headline news (and nor does it exactly roll off the tongue), but its influence is vast and will be felt for decades to come for millions of people ac
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Bit of dissent within the EU parliament re the TRIPS waiver issue( the waiving of Trade and Intellectual Property Rules) . This would enable vaccines to be produced for and in those countries whose vaccine take up is low due to cost. Hardly a radical proposal as we are a global pandemic, and the waiver is backed by the likes of the WHO, Greens and Gordon Brown.
The EU Commissioners though are firmly listening to big pharma
www.politico.eu
The EU Commissioners though are firmly listening to big pharma
Omicron outbreak turns up heat on EU over vaccine access
India and South Africa want a waiver on patents, but Brussels is not budging.
www.politico.eu
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Biometrics are already taking off in Africa - Accra airport (Ghana) had all the necessary kit for recording such details when I passed through there in 2011, and they used it.More on that Eu-funded project that The39thStep mentioned to collect African fingerprints to facilitate their deportation should they ever dare try and cross the Med:
Here’s how a well-connected security company is quietly building mass biometric databases in West Africa with EU aid funds
The “EU Trust Fund for Stability and Addressing Root Causes of Irregular Migration and Displaced Persons in Africa” (EUTF for Africa) isn’t exactly headline news (and nor does it exactly roll off the tongue), but its influence is vast and will be felt for decades to come for millions of people ac
Adding to previous posts on this thread, there's a long, detailed and utterly grim article from the New Yorker on the outer walls of Fortress Europe in Libya and the detention centres and militias backed by EU funding and political support.
This twitter thread by them also provides a quick overview linkNew Yorker said:
andysays
Love and solidarity
Ursula von der Leyen wants to make vaccines mandatory for everyone in the EU
Covid Omicron: Time to consider mandatory jabs, EU chief says
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Fortress Europe: the millions spent on military-grade tech to deter refugees
We map out the rising number of high-tech surveillance and deterrent systems facing asylum seekers along EU borders
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The EU says its 'Anti-Coercion Instrument' will act as a nuclear option, but if required, trade restrictions will be applied "towards any non-EU country unduly interfering in the policy choices of the EU or its Member States" . Interfering in members states is reserved solely for the EU.
gosub
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‘European Sovereignty’ on the Menu as Macron and Scholz Meet for Lunch
The new German chancellor made his first foreign stop in Paris, where the two leaders discussed a more independent, bolder Europe.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
‘European Sovereignty’ on the Menu as Macron and Scholz Meet for Lunch
The new German chancellor made his first foreign stop in Paris, where the two leaders discussed a more independent, bolder Europe.www.nytimes.com
Interestingly, i've seen quite a bit of chat that suggests that the difference between Germany's European Sovereignty and France's European Autonomy isn't just wording - the new German government is deeply wary of France's agenda, which it veiws as being self-serving and about French domination of EU defence and foreign policy, and much more switched into the eastern states concerns about Russia, and far more NATO-focused than France would prefer it to be.
We shall, of course, see - but the feeling has long been that Merkel gave Macron a far longer leash than anyone else in Europe was comfortable with in exchange for not making noise over German costing up to Russia .
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Meanwhile Eichorst and Varenyi colluding with the genocidaires of RS to break up Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Something again you won't hear the uncritical cheerleaders for rejoining mentioning.
Something again you won't hear the uncritical cheerleaders for rejoining mentioning.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
My future son in law in an attempt at bonding with me once asked me what I thought about the period in the States when Lindenburg became President. He had of course confused a fictional novel with reality. This article is pretty much on the same lines.
www.theguardian.com
Faced with Covid, Europe’s citizens demanded an EU response – and got it | Luuk van Middelaar
The pandemic finally brought into being a European public, as we discovered that our health is a common concern, says political theorist Luuk van Middelaar
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Starry Wisdom
What did you tell fsil?My future son in law in an attempt at bonding with me once asked me what I thought about the period in the States when Lindenburg became President. He had of course confused a fictional novel with reality. This article is pretty much on the same lines.
Faced with Covid, Europe’s citizens demanded an EU response – and got it | Luuk van Middelaar
The pandemic finally brought into being a European public, as we discovered that our health is a common concern, says political theorist Luuk van Middelaar
