EU politics
Euronews – EU greenlights controversial return hubs in ‘strictest-ever’ new migration law
When Georgia Meloni did this there was an outcry. Now that the EU is doing the same there’s barely a whimper. Read the full article HERE.
European Union
Climate Crisis
Politico – Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU
If Big Tech can build data centres and hide the energy consumption of those data centres, transparency is dead in the EU. Read the full article HERE.
EU politics
Euronews – Germany resists EU members’ push for a tougher stance on China
Germany’s confusion about the sort of relationship it wants with China is symptomatic of an EU that hasn’t woken up to the fact that it can’t compete with Chinese manufacturing and neither can it afford […]
Geopolitics
Eldar Mamedov – EU sanctions on violent Israeli settlers are barely a half measure
Given the fact that there are nearly three-quarter of a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, EU sanctions on a handful of them looks like little more than political damage control. […]
Austerity
Euronews – Meloni urges EU to treat energy crisis like defence emergency, relax fiscal rules
The reality is that no one believes in the EU fiscal rules anymore and to have a carve out only for Defence is not politically sustainable. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Euronews – EU approves sanctions on Israeli settlers after Hungarian backing
After three years of genocide, the European Union finally does something to punish Israel, though that ‘something’ is very little indeed. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Politico – Greek government picks fight with European prosecutor over huge farm fraud case
It’s remarkable how little we hear about the savage corruption in Greece, probably because their centre-right prime minister is loyal to NATO and the EU. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Nico Schmidt, Ella Joyner – How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll
‘Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can […]
Geopolitics
Politico – Trump threatens to wipe out Iran’s ‘whole civilization.’ EU has no comment.
History will remember those who were servile and impotent while the worst crimes imaginable were being proclaimed by the world’s most powerful person. Read the full article HERE.
Geopolitics
Alain Gabon – Iran war shows why Europe is no longer relevant
Europe is still unable to define and defend its own strategic interests. Dr Alain Gabon is Associate Professor of French Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Virginia Wesleyan University […]