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The EU brought to its knees by the Straussians

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 13 September 2022

A US grouping, constituted around the thought of the philosopher Leo Strauss, controls from now on both the Secretariat of Defense and the Secretariat of State. After having organized many wars since those of Yugoslavia, they imagined the one in Ukraine. It is now manipulating the European (...)

European COVID-19: Commission rallies Member States to prepare for autumn and winter

Brussels (Belgium) | 2 September 2022

Today, the Commission is proposing concrete measures to avoid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the upcoming autumn and winter season. The Commission is urging Member States to put the necessary strategies and structures in place, including for COVID-19 vaccination and surveillance, to respond to (...)

Frontex operates abroad against immigration to the EU

21 August 2022

According to a Frontex report, released by Statewatch, European border and coast guards are actively engaged in several foreign states.
Content with merely assisting North Africa countries in restricting immigration flows, they are far more active in the Balkans, in total apparent disregard (...)

EU pushes Georgia to go to war

8 July 2022

At a press conference, chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party Irakli Kobachidze said he hoped his country would gain EU candidate status in December… without having to go to war against Russia.
He hinted that European officials, without specifying which, made a bid to speed up his (...)

Lithuania hangs tough on Kaliningrad blockade

8 July 2022

In compliance with the unilateral European Union sanctions imposed against Russia, traffic between the Federation and its Kaliningrad exclave via both the Polish Suwalki corridor and Lithuanian rail lines was interrupted.
However, international treaties require Poland and Lithuania to (...)

Outside the West, euro falls below the dollar

7 July 2022

Currency exchange is disrupted by the unilateral Western sanctions against Russia.
In the West, the euro trades at $1.02. But in Russia it dropped below the dollar (64.4250 rubles against 65.6670).
The European Central Bank is trying to avoid, by all means, having to take on the reflux of (...)

EU exempts Suwalki Corridor from Russia sanctions

1 July 2022

The European Union is preparing to lift its anti-Russian sanctions in the Polish corridor of Suwalki whereby to allow the supply of essential goods to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
To put on a good showing, the EU emphasized that this exemption does not apply to the export of goods to (...)

EU flag installed in Ukrainian Parliament

1 July 2022

Ukrainian Parliament Speaker, Ruslan Stefanchuk, announced the arrival of the European Union flag on 1 July 2022 to be placed alongside the Ukrainian one, inside the Verkhovna Rada.
In principle, only States that are already members of the Union hoist the EU flag next to their (...)

EU launches blockade of Kaliningrad

23 June 2022

European Union demanded of Poland and Lithuania to ban the transit of goods from mainland Russia to the Russian region of Kaliningrad (formerly Köningsberg).
When Lithuania joined the European Union, it was stipulated that this Baltic state should guarantee transit to the Russian exclave of (...)

Secret Draghi/Macron/Scholz negotiations in Kiev

18 June 2022

The leaders of the three major countries of the European Union, Mario Draghi (Italy), Emmanuel Macron (France) and Olaf Scholz (Germany) called on President Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine) in Kiev.
All three have publicly urged for Ukraine to be granted the status of candidate state without (...)

Ukraine: Europol concerned about influx of weapons into Europe

30 May 2022

In an interview she gave to Die Welt am Sonntag, Europol director Catherine De Bolle, of Belgian nationality, expressed her concern about the possible inpouring of arms into Europe in the context of the Ukraine war.
We had reported that two-thirds of US and European weapons bound for Ukraine (...)

EU authorizes transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine

2 April 2022

European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynder has authorized the transfer of the Russian Federation’s "frozen" assets to Ukraine in compensation for the “unilateral” attack perpetrated against her.
In addition, EU services are trying to substantiate the involvement of Russian oligarchs in the (...)

EU sells off privacy of its citizens to US

28 March 2022

European Council President Charles Michel, who hosted US President Joe Biden in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, confirmed that an agreement had been reached on the transfer of personal data belonging to European Internet users to the US.
The previous agreement had been invalidated in July (...)

Germany and the Netherlands oppose Ukraine’s EU membership

9 March 2022

On 7 March 2022, Germany and the Netherlands moved against the launch of the procedure for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.
President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the sixth day of the conflict, 1 March 2022, by videoconference to the European Parliament. To the applause of the (...)

Josep Borrell sets up siege of Donbass and Transnistria

10 January 2022

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, quietly visited Ukraine in early January.
He visited the Donbass front line and met with officials from the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) to implement (...)

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