Lobbying by the governments of the U.K., France and Germany blocked efforts to introduce a European soil protection policy in 2007, citing costs and potential impacts on housing developments.
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EU politics
Grace Blakeley – The European project has far bigger problems than Brexit
EU leaders have entirely failed to solve any of the structural problems that led to the Eurozone crisis. Read here
EU politics
CUP: Detentions in a massive police operation against the Catalan pro-independence movement
Since early this morning 23rd of September, the Guardia Civil has arrested nine people by alleged actions of rebellion, sedition and terrorism in several places around Catalonia. Read here
National Politics
Modern Diplomacy – Newsweek: “The 500 years of Euro-Atlantic global ascendancy are over”
“We bluster, we threaten, we menace, we sanction, we send the Marines, we bomb,” says Chas Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomat, “but we don’t ever use the arts of persuasion.” Freeman was principal interpreter for […]
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