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EU Gets Its Way In “Gypsies” Case

  • August 29th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

roma-stormfrontorg.jpegEurope’s human rights Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has claimed victory for actions by the EU to guarantee the rights of Roma people and other minorities.
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One Europe: Regulating Car Crashes And Phone Calls, Across The Frontiers …

  • July 7th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

cars-ld-resize5.jpgmobile-phone-girls.jpgNo more ducking over the nearest national border to evade responsibility for a road crash, with a new law set to catch the more serious offenders.

At the same time, fresh efforts are being made by the EU to end rip-offs against people wanting to use their cell phone in a neighbouring country.

It’s all in the name of benefits to citizens, in a common  cultural space and a single economy, and domain of law.
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Europeans: Some Go Hungry, Most Backing The Environment…

  • June 30th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

eu-emblems-two-001.jpgA central fund for feeding the poor of Europe has been cut back, because of a legal ruling on how it should operate … while a survey of the EU population finds that rich or poor, European people are highly concerned about Mother Earth. … Read More »

Yelena Bonner: Brave Woman

  • June 29th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

bonner-sakharov-resize.jpgThe death of the former Soviet human rights campaigner Yelena Bonner this month (18.6.11), aged 88,  brought memories of tribulations of the recent past.

Yelena Bonner was already an activist when she met her second husband, the late “dissident” and  nuclear physicist, Andrei Sakharov, in 1970 - picture, together. … Read More »

Charges Laid Against Politkovskaya Accused …

  • June 8th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

anna-politkovskaya2.jpgRussian investigators have charged the suspect detained a week ago in Chechnya, Rustam Makhmudov, with the murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (picture). … Read More »

Mixed Happenings

  • June 4th, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

garibaldi.jpgRisorgimento revisited in Rome; old Cold War adversaries playing hot war games together; the EU in gathering pressure on Syria.

PARTY IN ROME

Much parading in the streets of Rome on Thursday, military feathers and finery on a par with the swashbuckling 19th Century legions that brought off the Risorgimento (Resurgence) – the unification of Italy 150 years ago to the day.

Giuseppe Garibaldi himself (picture), leader of the “redshirts”, horsemen for Italy, certainly would have revelled in the crowd of celebrities from 80 countries, in town for the spectacle. … Read More »

“Got Him!”, (Again): This Time Mladic …

  • May 27th, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

mladic-may-11.jpgAnother fugitive linked to wholesale political murders, the Serb military figure Ratko Mladic, has been caught (at a village in Northern Serbia, 26.5.11) , three weeks after the death of the terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

Mladic had been wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, at The Hague, for 16 years. … Read More »

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