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Monsanto Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning Of French Farmer

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Catherine Lagrange , Marion Douet - Feb. 14 (News Report) - ..A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides. In the first such case heard in court in France, grain grower Paul Francois, 47, says he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches and stammering after inhaling Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller in 2004. He blames the agri-business giant for not providing adequate warnings on the product label. The ruling was given by a court in Lyon, southeast France, which ordered an expert opinion of Francois's losses to establish the amount of damages. "It is a historic decision in so far as it is the first time that a (pesticide) maker is found guilty of such a poisoning," François Lafforgue, Francois's lawyer, told Reuters.

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EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT: The "Indignados" Still Have Wind in Their Sails

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Cleo Fatoorehchi - Feb. 06 (News) - EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT By Cléo Fatoorehchi AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Feb 6, 2012 (IPS) - Months of protest across the European Union, sparked by indignant youth demanding an end to the brand of free market capitalism that has blighted the continent with an unemployme

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Poland: Government Will Sign ACTA Despite Massive Protest

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Katarzyna Odrozek - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - Despite a massive Internet protest and controversies around the secret manner of negotiations, the Polish government will sign the anti-piracy agreement ACTA on January 26, as planned. Katarzyna Odrozek reports.

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Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Result From Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez - Dec. 02 (News Analysis) - Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Result From Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems European leaders are preparing to unveil their plans for addressing the sovereign debt crisis that’s threatened to tear apart the eurozone. Both France and Germany are expected to push for changes to the eurozone treaty, including centralized oversight of national budgets and tighter reins on debt

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Mubarak Reportedly Flees For Red Sea Resort As Egypt Protesters Rage

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:16:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 11 (News) - CAIRO — A local government official says President Hosni Mubarak is in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, 250 miles from the capital Cairo, where protesters are deluging squares and marching on presidential palaces and the State TV building.

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Ukraine's Assault on a Free Press

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By David Marks - Jan. 24 (News Report) - In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi -- known for its independent investigative style -- is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine's power circles.

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EU mission wants more evidence on Kosovo.

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

SwissInfo.ch - By SwissInfo writers - Dec. 26 (News) - A report says the European Union’s police and justice mission for Kosovo will not yet open an enquiry into criminal allegations made against the Kosovo leader.

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A Banner Year for Islam Bashing

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Why has anti-Muslim sentiment risen up lockstep in America and Europe?

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Europe and its Gypsies

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Nov. 12 (News Report) - In what seems like a never-ending story, the European Union is at its worst in dealing with an again nomadic population. They should look to the old Yugoslavia.

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Unemployment

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wikipedia - Jul. 15 (Research) - The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures employment and unemployment (of those over 15 years of age) using two different labor force surveys[59] conducted by the United States Census Bureau (within the United States Department of Commerce) and/or the Bureau of Labor Statistics (within the United States Department of Labor) that gather employment statistics monthly. The Current Population Survey (CPS), or "Household Survey", conducts a survey based on a sample of 60,000 households. This Survey measures the unemployment rate based on the ILO definition.[60] The data are also used to calculate 5 alternate measures of unemployment as a percentage of the labor force based on different definitions noted as U1 through U6:

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Germany, Greece and Exiting the Eurozone

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Stratafor global intelligence - May. 18 (News Analysis) - one creative option making the rounds would allow the european union to technically expel members without breaking the treaties. ....such manipujlations would not necessarily destroy the existing european union.....

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Athens’ neighbours anxious about aftermath

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

PressEurop - Apr. 12 (News) - "The shoring-up of Greece is a big relief” for the Balkans, observes Die Presse, now that the eurozone countries have green-lighted the plan to bail out Greece’s public finances. The reason is that Greece controls a large share of their financial markets, explains the Viennese daily: Greek banks own 30% of the banks in Bulgaria and half the financial sector in Albania. For a long time, as a matter of fact, Greece served as the role model and growth driver for the Balkans. The Greeks have invested several billion euros in various countries in the region: 17,000 people in Bulgaria work for Greek companies, and over 100,000 jobs in Bulgaria depend on Greek investments. Bulgarian exports are likewise in jeopardy, seeing as Greece is the fourth-biggest buyer of Bulgarian products

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Third time lucky for the eurozone?

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Earth Times - By Ben Nimmo - Apr. 11 (News Analysis) - Brussels - The eurozone has tried and failed twice to convince markets that it is safe to lend to the Greek government; on Sunday, it hoped that the third time would be lucky....

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Standing At Thermopylae: Greek Economic Situation Worsening Fast

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Simon Johnson - Apr. 08 (News Analysis) - No one in official Washington is seriously worried about Greece. It's far away, relatively small, and - anyway - "we already sent the IMF". Under current circumstances, this is very much like saying 2,500 years ago: We sent 300 Spartans

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Concerns About Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Issa Villarreal - Feb. 25 (News Report) - The last meeting of negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has provoked the protest of online communities against both its content and the circumstances of their negotiations

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A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

International Journal of Biological Sciences - By Joël Spiroux de Vendômois, et al - Jan. 13 (Research) - However, in the three GM maize varieties that formed the basis of this investigation, new side effects linked to the consumption of these cereals were revealed, which were sex- and often dose-dependent. Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted. As there normally exists sex differences in liver and kidney metabolism, the highly statistically significant disturbances in the function of these organs, seen between male and female rats, cannot be dismissed as biologically insignificant as has been proposed by others [4]. We therefore conclude that our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal toxicity

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Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katherine Goldstein, Gazelle Emami - Jan. 12 (News Report) - In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.

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Icelandic government passes Icesave deal; €12,000 debt per citizen

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wikinews - By Brian McNeil - Dec. 31 (News Report) - The Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and her coalition government narrowly escaped a commitment to resign as a €3.8 billion bill to repay British and Dutch savers following the collapse of Icesave online banking passed. The vote margin was only three votes.

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EU/IMF Revolt: Greece, Iceland, Latvia May Lead the Way

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Ellen Hodgson Brown J.D. - Dec. 17 (News Analysis) - Europe's small, debt-strapped countries could follow the lead of Argentina and simply walk away from their debts. That would shift the burden to the creditor countries, which could solve the problem merely by a change in accounting rules.

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In the shadow of the wall

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - By Melita Richter Malabotta - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - research showed East Germans felt deprived of any role in the future development of society and felt they did not have any input on the level where things were actually being decided. This shaped their identity of being separate citizens; “Easterners” whose life-ethic and “nobility of thought” (10) had somehow been hampered by reunification.

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Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wikinews - By Brian McNeil et al - Oct. 19 (News Report) - A report accidentally published on the Internet provides insight into a secretive European Union surveillance project designed to monitor its citizens, as reported by Wikileaks earlier this month. Project INDECT aims to mine data from television, internet traffic, cellphone conversations, p2p file sharing and a range of other sources for crime prevention and threat prediction. The €14.68 million project began in January, 2009, and is scheduled to continue for five years under its current mandate. INDECT produced the accidentally published report as part of their "Extraction of Information for Crime Prevention by Combining Web Derived Knowledge and Unstructured Data" project, but do not enumerate all potential applications of the search and surveillance technology. Police are discussed as a prime example of users, with Polish and British forces detailed as active project participants. INDECT is funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), and includes participation from Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

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EU tightens bluefin tuna fishing rules

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AFP - Apr. 06 (News Report) - European Union countries adopted new rules Monday to help restore endangered bluefin tuna stocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, bringing the bloc into line with international standards. The rules introduce "significant cuts" in bluefin tun quotas by 2011 and shortens the period in which the species can be fished by four months. The season begins on April 15.

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Strained relations between Russians, EU monitors in Georgia

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

euobserver.com - By Valentina Pop - Oct. 24 (News Report) - Russia is not informing the EU mission of their deployment of troops, nor is it allowing observers to enter Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Hansjorg Haber, the head of EU's civilian monitoring mission to Georgia (EUMM) has said.

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Getting better

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

eurointelligence.com - Oct. 21 (Special Report) - The money markets are finally improving, but the improvement are stronger in the US than in Europe. We will have to see whether this is a temporary or persistent gap. The improvement in money market conditions, even in the US, is still slow, and we are still way above even the normal “crisis level” we have had for most of the year

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EU turns to Kazakhstan for Nabucco gas supply

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

neurope.eu - By kostis Geropoulos - Oct. 20 (Special Report) - The Baltic states in particular look likely to become increasingly dependent on Russian gas exports in the future. Asked if Tallinn shares Vilnius’ concerns about energy diversification and overreliance on Russia, Paet said in Astana that “it’s not even important from where in the sense the energy comes or the majority of energy, but important is that anyway we should have alternatives. It means not only one source but different sources.” He reminded that now the EU is also building up its common energy policy and the most important part is how to get real alternatives.

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