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‘The European Union’s outgoing envoy to Palestine says the 28-nation bloc is continuing its efforts to pass more measures against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. John Gatt-Rutter, the envoy to the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, said on Thursday that “there is support within the union to go on” […]

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‘Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is continuing his effort to distance himself from the austerity memorandum Syriza Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to impose. In doing so, he is succeeding only in confirming the bankruptcy of the entire Syriza project, which has been embraced by pseudo-left groups internationally. Varoufakis became finance minister following […]

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‘Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel says that sacrificing the EU’s free border movement could be on the table in the interest of security. He further says that there is an increasing need to give up some freedoms in order to fight terrorism. The remarks were made to RTL on Saturday, in the aftermath of the […]

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‘On August 18, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz joined Harper’s Magazine deputy editor Christopher Beha at Book Culture in New York to discuss the Greek financial crisis. In Stiglitz’s view, the latest bailout not only ensures that the country’s depression will worsen, but undermines the entire European project. Bad economic ideas inflict untold human suffering. When […]

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‘Greece’s former finance minister has lashed out at the country’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for “surrendering” to international creditors’ demands for tough austerity measures to secure a third aid package. In an interview with the New Review published on Saturday, Yanis Varoufakis censured Tsipras for going back on his anti-austerity promises and accepting the tough […]

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‘British government votes failed to block a single European Union measure during David Cameron’s first five years in office, new research showed yesterday. It also suggests that although Britain seems to pick its fights by formally objecting in only a relatively few cases, its No has now not stopped a measure put to a vote […]

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‘Eurozone finance ministers have formally approved the third bailout for Greece after parliaments in member states supported the move. “The Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism approved today the ESM managing director’s proposal for a financial assistance agreement with Greece,” the board said in a statement released on Wednesday. “Under the terms of […]

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‘Lawmakers voted to ratify a 30-page “Memorandum of Understanding” to keep the country in the eurozone for the next three years on Friday. But the terms of the deal, which roll back a number of key pledges from the anti-austerity government, have split the ruling party. Mr Tsipras failed to get the backing of at […]

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‘The European Commission is making the secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal even more secret, introducing a new rule that means politicians can only view the text in a secure ‘reading room’ in Brussels. An investigation by German news site Correct!v has revealed that the Commission is cracking down on TTIP security […]

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‘David Cameron will orchestrate a ‘bang the table’ row with the French to try to convince voters he has secured a good deal from Brussels, senior Tories have admitted. Former health secretary Andrew Lansley is reported to have told business leaders last week that the Prime Minister plans to ‘choreograph’ a row with French president […]

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‘The new austerity program that was proposed yesterday (13/8/2015) by the SYRIZA government and voted by the majority of SYRIZA and the discredited old pro-austerity and pro-EU (European Union) parties brings disaster for the Greek people. Economic depression will be aggravated, foreign debt will be increased, wages and pensions reduced even more, poverty exacerbated and […]

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‘Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will face a vote of confidence after a huge number of Syriza MPs voted against the bailout deal. The €85 billion deal – which means the country will avoid a default next week -ultimately passed with support from opposition parties after an all-night parliamentary session. Overall 222 votes MPs backed […]

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‘People in Greece have staged an anti-austerity protest rally as Greek lawmakers prepare to vote on an agreement between the country and its international creditors on a third bailout. The protesters shouted slogans against the deal during the peaceful demonstration in the capital, Athens, on Thursday, saying that that the bailout deal will have a […]

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‘People in Greece have staged an anti-austerity protest rally as Greek lawmakers prepare to vote on an agreement between the country and its international creditors on a third bailout. The protesters shouted slogans against the deal during the peaceful demonstration in the capital, Athens, on Thursday, saying that that the bailout deal will have a […]

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‘Barely a third of EU citizens support the push by Brussels for ‘ever-closer union’ in Europe, according to a survey. Instead, three in ten think EU integration has ‘gone too far’ and that Brussels should hand back powers to national governments. Support for the EU’s central principle is dwindling even in founding member states such […]

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