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04/02/2016
Europe Is Disintegrating While Its Citizens Watch Indifferent
Human Wrongs Watch
Roberto Savio
This proves clearly that European citizens do not feel close to Brussels.
Gone are the 1950s, when young people mobilized in the Youth Federalist Movement, with activists from the Federal Movement led by Altiero Spinelli, and the massive campaign for a Europe that would transcend national boundaries, a rallying theme of the intellectuals of the time.
It has been a crescendo of crisis.
First came the North-South divide, with a North that did not want to rescue the South, and made austerity a monolithic taboo, with Germany as its inflexible leader.
Greece was the chosen place to clash and win, even if its budget was just 4 percent of the whole European Union.
The front for fiscal discipline and austerity easily overran those pleading for development and growth as a priority and it alienated many of citizens caught in the fight.
Then come the East-West divide. It become clear that the countries which were under the Soviet Union, joined the EU purely for economic reasons, and did not identify with the so called European values, the basis for the founding treaties.
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04/02/2016
Security Council’s Road-Map for Syria Trembling, Talks Suspended
Human Wrongs Watch
3 February 2016 – Just two days after declaring the official start of delayed intra-Syrian talks in Geneva to end five years of bloody warfare, the United Nations mediator suspended them for three weeks today following differences between Government and opposition delegations on the priority of humanitarian issues.
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Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura updates the press on the Intra-Syrian Geneva Talks. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (file)
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“I have been asking even before issuing the invitations that there is an immediate implementation of a humanitarian initiative, even before the talks start,” UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told journalists, citing such issues as lifting sieges and providing access for humanitarian aid to all the places which are at the moment unreachable.
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04/02/2016
The Mechanics of Globalism – Migration as a Weapon of War and Ethno-Engineering
Human Wrongs Watch
By Catherine Shakdam*
3 February 2016 (RT) – Today, war refugees have become headlines onto themselves. Whether referred to as migrants or asylum seekers by a well-thinking media complex, the semantics of this new crisis nevertheless betrays a very globalist agenda – yet more engineering, yet more manipulation.
Lebanon: Newborn boy spends first winter in a warehouse
29 January 2016 (UNHCR) – Just ten days old, Syrian infant Mohammed is already experiencing the harshness of refugee life. Living with his family in a warehouse without furniture, natural light or permanent heat, he is already battling his first cold.
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