Trump, UK – media wars
- May 21st, 2020
- Posted by EU Australia
With the coronavirus tragedy in America and re-election time for Donald Trump, the political warfare is heating up, and gloves are coming off in the media battles. … Read More »
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With the coronavirus tragedy in America and re-election time for Donald Trump, the political warfare is heating up, and gloves are coming off in the media battles. … Read More »
The European Union’s move to get CORVID-19 investigated through the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been made difficult by Chinese-American squabbling –and Australia trying to get into the fight.
The EU focus has been to try and discover more about the virus and its origins, and draw lessons about managing both the particular disease and others that may follow.
But first they have had to manage, coax and bring into the process, unreasoning parties on two sides: on one hand American and Australian governments picking a fight with the Chinese, on the other, Chinese communists indulging their accustomed habits of coercion and abuse. It’s a picture of maturity from Brussels and something much less from these other partners. … Read More »
Urgent international gatherings this week in Geneva and Paris took on, respectively, the Ebola crisis in West Africa and threats posed by the ‘Islamic state’ movement in Syria and Iraq. … Read More »
A Court decision has opened a new fight over a relentless corporate drive to install genetically modified crops in European agriculture. … Read More »
European authorities are actively studying a uniform testing regime to prevent meat substitution, after the discovery of horsemeat being sold as beef in thirteen or more countries. … Read More »
“Wotch out for the chunder from down under!â€, British tabloids are screaming *; more prosaic but also to the point is this warning from the Eurosurveillance public health service:
“Healthcare institutions are advised to be prepared for a severe norovirus season.†… Read More »
In 2012 the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize for its interventions on the side of ending conflicts without violence; a new direction for Europe past, strongly symbolised, also, by humanitarian efforts of the European states.
A major focus has been in the campaign for health rights everywhere, bringing the blessing of proper care to millions, and directly benefiting all humankind with the defeat of neglect and menacing disease. … Read More »