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Stories appearing on several Ukrainian Web sites claim Israel has brought around some 25,000 Ukrainian children into the country over the past two years in order to harvest their organs. The claim, which was made by a Ukrainian philosophy professor and author at a pseudo-academic conference in Kiev five days ago, is the latest expression of a wave of anti-Semitism in the country. It comes a few months after a Swedish tabloid ran an article alleging that Israel Defense Forces soldiers have killed Palestinian civilians for their organs. Jews, Israel and anti-Semitism have become a major motif of the presidential...

The stolen body and coffin of a German billionaire, Friedrich Karl Flick, have been found in Hungary. The coffin and remains were handed over to Austrian authorities at the weekend, Austrian police say. Thieves stole the coffin in November 2008, after moving a slab of granite at the mausoleum in southern Austria where the industrialist was buried. Flick inherited German factories that employed slave labour during World War II. He died in 2006 at the age of 79. In December 2008 his widow Ingrid offered a 100,000-euro (£91,000) reward in an effort to recover the body. No ransom demand was...

The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944. The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite group of German industrialists to plan for Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for the Nazis' return to power and work for a 'strong German empire'. In other words: the Fourth Reich. The three-page, closely typed report,...

“The EU shares Iran's concerns over the situation in the Middle East,” Gallach told the Mehr News Agency in an interview recently. She said the European bloc believes that a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved through dialogue and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.... ...Gallach also said Iran and the West can “open a new chapter” in relations now that President Barack Obama has expressed his willingness to enter dialogue with Iran.

France and Germany are expected to give details this weekend of an agreement to station hundreds of German troops on French soil for the first time since the second world war, in a region the countries have squabbled over for centuries. The historic move for troops in either Alsace or Lorraine is part of a 20-year joint military project to encourage reconciliation between the two countries. Despite its symbolic significance for a country occupied by Nazi forces, the decision has so far prompted little more than curious and insouciant reaction from the French public. "The prospect of seeing German troops...

The head of the German Parliament Norbert Lammert met yesterday with the President of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu with whom he discussed about the further deepening of cooperation between the two countries. The head of the German Parliament on this occasion spoke about the engagement of his government in the process of recognitions for the independent state of Kosovo. He also expressed his displeasure with the manner in which the three German BND secret service agents were arrested. The focus of yesterday’s meeting between Lammert and Sejdiu were the interstate relations. President Sejdiu on this occasion thanked the head of German...

India protests submarine sale to Pak 12/29/2008 10:01:16 PM In what comes as clearly a fallout of the Mumbai terror attacks, India has protested to Germany about its plans to sell submarines to Pakistan. India has told Germany to call off the sale of 214 submarines manufactured by HDW to Pakistan over the next few years. The deal which is worth over one billion dollars is likely to be signed in the next few days. India maintains that the sale would be a problem for India as it would definitely be used for conducting strikes against India.

TRIESTE, Italy (AFP) – Germany and Italy will seek a joint approach to climate change and the environment, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. > "As Germany and Italy are the two main manufacturing countries of Europe, we do not want" new EU rules on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to "have too heavy an impact on our businesses," >

European Union foreign ministers say they will not support a military strike on Iran but want more talks to try to resolve worries Tehran might be developing nuclear weapons. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says it is now up to Iran to respond to global powers and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana after talks in Geneva on Saturday.

The words were clear: "Europe has powerful enemies on the other side of the Atlantic, gifted with considerable financial means." The speaker was France's Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet, addressing a pro-European rally in Lyon at the weekend. He was putting the blame for the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty on some surprising shoulders: neoconservatives in the United States. "The role of the American neocons was very important in the victory of the 'no,'" he said. ... One of the most powerful groups campaigning against the treaty was Libertas... There has been much speculation about where exactly the Libertas funding...

Most Americans have little to no understanding of the European Union. Founded under tripartite coal and steel trade negotiations, many viewed the EU as a free trade agreement that promotes liberty. Others see it as the European version of the United States. This fundamental misunderstanding has led American Presidents from George HW Bush to his son, to all of the current major candidates for president to support the EU, and in the case of President George W Bush to push for its expansion into Turkey. Whatever the EU began as, it most certainly is not a free market anything. The...

The European Union, the "free trade organization with a few added extras," is officially turning into a pan-European dictatorship. The Daily Telegraph reports: "The European Union assembly's political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings. Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP's pan-European Eurosceptic "Independence and Democracy" grouping. Under the rule change, the largest and most pro-EU groups would tighten their grip on the Parliament's political...

European Leaders Agree to Create Eurabia From the desk of Fjordman on Wed, 2008-03-05 11:26 Bat Ye’or in her book about Eurabia documented how European leaders have for years been quietly planning to merge Europe with the Islamic world. This has been denounced as a “conspiracy theory.” Only a few months ago the British Foreign Minister David Miliband said openly that the European Union should expand to include the Muslim Middle East and North Africa. Now French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are saying virtually the same thing. The greatest betrayal in European history is fact, not...

(IsraelNN.com) A Belgian restaurant waiter threw out a 64-year-old American professor because he was wearing a skullcap [kipa], according to the European Jewish Press. "We are not serving Jews; [get] out of here," the waiter shouted at Marcel Kalmann after he entered the Le Paniel d'Or cafe in the city of Bruges The tourist went to another cafe, where the owners helped him call the police. A Belgian Jewish newspaper reported that Kalmann said he will lodge a complaint against the restaurant owner and against the police for telling him the incident was not anti-Semitic and that he could not...

Today the European Union leaders signed the Lisbon Treaty. This treaty gives the EU the constitutional form of a state. These are the ten most important things the Lisbon Treaty does: 1. It establishes a legally new European Union in the constitutional form of a supranational European State. 2. It empowers this new European Union to act as a State vis-a-vis other States and its own citizens. 3. It makes us all citizens of this new European Union........ 4. To hide the enormity of the change, the same name – European Union – will be kept while the Lisbon Treaty...

Brussels, the capital of Belgium, prides itself on being the capital of Europe and of the Atlantic Alliance. The city, where the European Union and NATO headquarters are located, has no fewer than three U.S. ambassadors...During the past six years Freddy Thielemans, the mayor of Brussels, allowed 3,500 demonstrations. He banned only six...as a rule everyone...is allowed to demonstrate in Brussels. Two weeks ago Thielemans issued his sixth ban. "Stop the Islamization of Europe" (SIOE), a pan-European organization led by a Dane, an Englishman and a German, was denied permission to demonstrate on September 11 against the introduction of Shariah...

US Steps Up Probe of EU Banks The Financial Times Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington The US justice department and other authorities have stepped up investigations into several large European banks for violating US sanctions against Iran, Libya, Cuba and Sudan. One person familiar with the probes said some banks had started to discuss settlements with the authorities and could agree to financial penalties by the end of the year. A number of the banks, whose names have not been disclosed, came under investigation by authorities, including the Treasury, when they alerted the government to potential violations after a landmark money...

BERLIN, March 23 (UPI) -- The European Union should have a common army, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel told a German newspaper. Two days before the 27-member body celebrates its 50th birthday, Merkel said in an interview with the mass-selling German daily Bild published Friday that Europe should think about joining its military power. "We need to get closer to a common army for Europe," she said. Speaking about her future visions for the EU, Merkel also underlined her dream of a common EU constitution, which she will try to revive Sunday in a 'Berlin Declaration,' a two-page document that will...

Laws on fertility treatment should be standardised across the European Union to deter 'fertility tourism', a leading expert has said.

A city court in Erlangen, Bavaria gave Lutheran Pastor Johannes Lerle a one year jail sentence for the "crime" of comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust. In response, Jim Hughes, Vice-President of International Right to Life Federation has called on pro-life activists internationally to take action on the matter by contacting German authorities to demand freedom of speech and freedom of religion for the pastor (see contact information below the story). Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the annual murder of 150,000 babies through abortion in Germany to the murder of thousands of innocent Jews in Auschwitz. The court, which consisted of...

STRASBOURG, June 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Polish government announced Tuesday that it will appeal the landmark ruling by the European Human Rights Court of "wrongful birth" made last March. The European Court of Human Rights ordered Poland to pay €25,000 in compensation for "wrongful birth" after ruling in favour of Alicja Tysiac, a 34 year mother of three who wished to abort her third child in 2003. Tysiac claimed her gynecologist destroyed her referral to an abortion clinic, denying that her health was in danger. At the time of her pregnancy, Tysiac had an eye condition that doctors warned...

ROME, May 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian homosexual leaders are accusing Riccardo Di Segni, Rome's chief rabbi of “racism” for his stand defending the traditional family. Di Segni was speaking against proposed legislation that would create de facto civil unions for homosexual partners and cohabiting persons with equivalent rights to natural marriage.  De Segni spoke out against the “strange silence” of Jewish leaders “on this hotly debated issue,’ in an article to appear in the Jewish monthly Shalom.   The ANSA news agency quotes Di Segni: “Society is about to make a decision which, according to our traditions, abundantly exceeds permitted...

A German appeals court has not only affirmed a lower court's decision that ripped a 15-year-old homeschooler from her family and subjected her to a forced stay in a psychiatric hospital because she is homeschooled, but also ordered her parents to be given psychiatric evaluations, an international rights organization says. Joel Thornton, president of the International Human Rights Group told WND that fears the state will use those court-approved tests to destroy the family of Melissa Busekros are very valid. The family's five other children also are endangered now because of potential court rulings that could be based on any...

Polish Fringe Magazine Pictures Merkel As Hitler March 2nd 2007 by Playfuls Team German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured as Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler with the caption "EU Fascism on the Offensive" on the cover of the latest edition of the Polish political fringe magazine Czas. The marginal publication is a mouthpiece of the radical fringe Union of Real Politics (UPR) political party, staunchly opposed to the European Union, particularly to closer political integration of the 27-member bloc via the shelved constitutional treaty. The UPR party has virtually no popular support in Poland and holds no parliamentary seats. The provocative...

TURIN, Italy, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Italian judge ordered a 13 year-old girl to undergo an abortion, despite the girl's pleas to let her keep her child reports the Italian news agency, La Stampa. The girl, Valentina, had become pregnant by her 15 year-old boyfriend, however rather than let her choose to keep her child, her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was ruining her life by becoming a mother. "You cannot hold this child ... you must abort, and father will never have to know,” Valentina's mother told her, saying that...

You read it here first. Clinton possibly got Gore, who is on the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, to contact Steve Jobs, Apple Co-founder and President. Steve jobs sold Pixar to Disney and is now on Disney/ABC Board.Gore probably got Jobs to pressure ABC not to air the 9/11, movie behind the scene. Bingo, connect the dots.

Since the April 2004 Madrid bombing, EU countries have sought to improve EU-wide coordination and cooperation in combating terrorism. They focused on strengthening judicial cooperation and ties between their various national intelligence, investigative, justice, and police agencies. A special coordinator, Gijs de Vries, was appointed to oversee this task. But, while some significant improvements have been made, its still pretty much old hat when in come to dealing with terrorism and cross border criminal activities. Each country still does its own thing. And cross border judicial cooperation continues to be slow and burdensome. EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini, complained in...

Today [May 9th, 2006] is Europe Day. On 9 May 1950, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman called upon France, Germany and other European countries to pool together their coal and steel production. Part of the original mystique of the movement for European unification can be found in the name of the Brussels building which for more than 50 years has housed the Council of Ministers of the organisations that were first known as the European Coal and Steel Community (ESCS), Euratom and the European Economic Community (EEC), and which later merged to become the European Communities (EC) and finally...

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney pledged strong U.S. support on Saturday for Croatia's bid to join NATO and the European Union, following the example of other post-communist states in transition to democracy. Cheney made the promise to reformist Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on the eve of a meeting in Dubrovnik with leaders of Croatia, Macedonia and Albania, as he toured former East bloc nations that increasingly have turned west since the Cold War. He caused diplomatic waves on Thursday with a speech to Baltic and Black Sea heads of state in Vilnius where he accused Russian President...

BELGIUM has voted into law a controversial bill allowing homosexual couples to adopt children, Belga news agency reported. The upper house of parliament, the Senate, today approved the bill by a razor-thin 34 votes to 33, with two abstentions. The vote in the lower house of parliament in December 2005 had also been narrow, at 77 votes to 62, with seven abstentions. Homosexual couples in Belgium won the right to marry in June 2003 and more than 5000 people have taken advantage of that law since it came into force. Now that the new law has been definitively approved, they...

BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Belgium is considering a proposal to legalize euthanasia for children and youth up to age 18.The Flemish Socialist party, a member of Belgium’s coalition government, has called for an extension to the country’s euthanasia laws to give teenagers under 18 the right to choose assisted suicide, and parents of younger children the right to “choose” it for them.Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002. Under the current law, a patient must be over 18, terminally ill and in constant suffering in order to qualify for euthanasia. The country has...

FLANDERS, Belgium, February 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Four hundred people were reported killed by euthanasia in Belgium in 2005, double the rate of four years ago. Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002, following the Netherlands to become the second European country to do so. In the first year two hundred people were killed. Since then rates have steadily risen. Last year deaths reportedly reached 360.Figures published today indicate one third of “assisted suicides” involve a surgical procedure, reported the Evening Echo News.In some cases, medical treatment is stopped, or not started at all, said Wim Distelmans, chairman of Belgium’s euthanasia evaluation...

Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- A former U.S. diplomat is speaking out against the secret trial of a former Moldovan defense minister who has been sentenced to 10 years hard labor for selling MiG-29 fighter jets to the United States in 1997. E. Wayne Merry, a former State Department official who helped negotiate the 1997 sale, says he publicly is describing the U.S. government’s version of events to help show there was no pricing conspiracy involved in the sale of the 21 jets. “The trial is not just about a Moldovan politician,” Merry said in a January 31 discussion...

On January 16, the Constitutional Commission of the Estonian Parliament sent for the first parliamentary reading a bill on the ratification of the European Constitution. The commissioners propose adopting the bill in the first reading on February 8, the press service of the Riigikogu informs REGNUM. Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet says that the European Constitution is useful for the country and there are no reasons for not considering or ratifying it. Today moods in Europe are quite different from what they were a year before, when France and the Netherlands rejected the Constitution. To remind, supporting the bill in...

The justice minister of the European Union, Franco Frattini, announced this week at the EU parliament in Strasburg that member states which do not eliminate all forms of discrimination against homosexuals, including the refusal to approve “marriage” and unions between same-sex couples, would be subject to sanctions and eventual expulsion from the EU. According to a report by the Archdioceses of Madrid’s news service Analisis Digital, the commissioner’s statements came as the governments of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland ruled against legalizing homosexual “marriage.” “Homophobia is a violation of human rights and we are watching member states on this issue...

KIEV, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana pledged the European Union's support to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in a telephone conversation Friday, following the recent dismissal of the country's government, Ukraine's presidential press service said. Solana "gave his assurance of the European community's support in the Ukrainian leadership's steps to stabilize the situation in the country, and in its reform progress," the press service said. He also congratulated the president on the successful completion of Russian-Ukrainian talks on over Russian gas supplies to its neighbor and the signing of agreements. The Supreme Rada, Ukraine's...

A continuation of this thought-provoking essay from Wolfgang Bruno: Historian Bat Ye'or fears that it may already be too late to save Europe from Islam, and that the continent will be transformed into Eurabia. Should this come to pass, Eurabia will either slowly decline into just another overpopulated Islamic failure, or it will be used as a staging ground for Islamic aggression against the rest of the infidel world. With Europe’s nuclear weapons and accumulated resources at disposal, Eurabia would be so dangerous that the Americans, the Israelis, the Indians, the Russians and maybe even the Chinese would be forced...

The Nazi’s are nearly winning. Don’t believe me? One parliament, flag, anthem, court, all for a single Federal State of Europe. That is what the Nazi state was, a Federal State of individual german states. So as a citizen of the UK, I am very happy I live here in the US, but still worried for my fellow Englishmen. The European Union’s laws mean that any state joining it must give their sovereignty up, betraying their citizens, deceiving them, to become a member of a Union that doesn’t give much back. Its roots are in World War 2, or its...

The United Kingdom is preparing a proposal for EU budget cuts in which Poland might lose out on as much as EUR6 billion of structural funds between 2007 and 2013. The draft will be presented at the beginning of December, two weeks before the EU summit, which is to decide on the financial future of the European Union. According to current assumptions, Poland was to receive EUR60 billion between 2007-2013 for the development of the poorest regions. "For Poland such a proposition is unacceptable. The British want to turn attention away from the greatest problem, which is London's rebat in...

When the UK Presidency suggested to the EU that telecoms service providers and ISPs should be forced to retain information about the telephone calls you make and the sites you visit, they stated that it was an essential “balance” struck between liberty and security: a grave compromise necessitated by the threat of terrorism and serious crime. We don’t remember them mentioning “and might help the recording industry fish for file-sharing networks, DRM workarounds, and spurious patent infringers”. The newly-formed Creative and Media Business Alliance (CMBA), made up of companies such as Sony BMG, Disney, EMI, IFPI, MPA and Universal Music...

SUMMARY: The European Commission will monitor Poland's treatment of lesbian and gay people, in light of the election of Lech Kaczynski as the country's president. ADVERTISEMENT The European Commission says it will "attentively" monitor Poland's treatment of lesbian and gay people, in light of the election of Lech Kaczynski as the country's president. Kaczynski was voted in as the country's president over the weekend, after running his campaign on right-wing issues. He has already caused controversy in his previous role as mayor of Warsaw, where he barred a Gay Pride celebration. Days after the banned procession went ahead anyway, he...

PSKOV, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - United Russia, the majority party in the Russian parliament, plans to join the European Democratic Union in the near future, a senior member of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament said Monday. "We are making attempts to join the European Democratic Union," Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council's international affairs committees, said after an international seminar, Assistance to the Formation of a New Europe, in Pskov (northwestern Russia). Margelov said, "United Russia must have its own place in the European political spectrum."

EU elites are using the cover of recent terror attacks to take away our freedoms. by Bruno Waterfield The idea of freedom has captivated the European imagination for centuries. New York's Statue of Liberty, which became a world symbol for the search for a better life, was presented to America by the French. The engineer was Gustave Eiffel, creator of the Paris tower landmark, and his statue was entitled 'Liberty enlightening the world'. The statue embodied the high regard in which the idea of freedom was then held. As the US National Park Service approvingly notes, it 'is one of...

On both sides of the Atlantic, the political class has become convinced that the people do not know what is best for them. by Frank Furedi At first sight, opponents of the EU Constitution appear to have very little in common. In France, campaigners for 'Non' often sought to defend their system of welfare arrangements against an institution that they believe has come under Anglo-Saxon neo-liberal domination. British eurosceptics oppose the bureaucratic and regulatory ambitions of Brussels. In Holland, some 'Nee' campaigners feared the loss of their national identity and the entry of Turkey into the EU. Others used the...

On September 1, for pupils of 5-11th forms, the first lesson will be devoted to European choice of Ukraine. Ministry of Education recommended the topic "Ukraine is a European state" for the first lesson. As reported in press-service of Ministry, in senior classes it is offered to conduct the lesson in form of a debate or a roundtable – "Why did Ukraine make European choice?", "We are citizens of Europe." For pupils of junior classes the topics are the following: "My native school" and "Ukraine is my homeland."

The European Union is accumulating a vast range of powers that pose, as human rights organisations such as Statewatch and Liberty have consistently argued, a threat to civil liberties across the continent of Europe. This month, the Democracy Movement has teamed up with Labour for Civil Liberties, Youth for a Free Europe and The Ecologist magazine to highlight this threat of the developing EU Police State. A new range of literature has been published for distribution nation-wide by supporters of the participating groups. Leaflets emblazoned 'Human rights do not apply' expose five recent EU-inspired steps which are building towards this...

The seismic rejection of the EU Constitution by the French and Dutch peoples in their recent referendums has shown clearly that the EU's 'one-size-fits-all' model - whereby laws are made in Brussels and then imposed on 25 diverse countries regardless of what their voters want - is no longer viable. The diversity of the reasons for opposing the Constitution in these two countries and beyond has shown that different European peoples demand very different priorities from those who govern them. Crucially, the idea that more and more law-making powers should be concentrated in the hands of EU officials who cannot...

Rise of the Fourth Reich - The European Union Posted on Monday, June 27, 2005 by richard The Nazi’s are nearly winning. Don’t believe me? One parliament, flag, anthem, court, all for a single Federal State of Europe. That is what the Nazi state was, a Federal State of individual german states. So as a citizen of the UK, I am very happy I live here in the US, but still worried for my fellow Englishmen. The European Union’s laws mean that any state joining it must give their sovereignty up, betraying their citizens, deceiving them, to become a member...

RIGA - The number of Latvian residents with a negative opinion about the European Union increased in June, a poll revealed. In May, 20 percent of respondents said the EU was a “bad thing,” while in June the figure rose to 25.5 percent, said the European Union Information Agency. These respondents were mostly people living in Latvia’s central region of Zemgale, non-Latvians, unemployed persons and those older than 55. In May, 36 percent of respondents said the EU was a “good thing” while in June that figure dropped to 30 percent. This included young people aged 18-24, persons with higher...

"The EU grants Ukraine large sum of money for the successful fulfillment of the EU-Ukraine plan. The sum will be increased to $100 million by 2006," stated the head of the Directorate of external Relations of the European Commission, David Lipman. According to his words, the participants of the summit will conduct negotiations concerning the agreement on free trade area and the liberation of the visa-regime for Ukrainian citizens, Interfax-Ukraine informs. In response to journalists’ questions about the influence of Ukrainian membership in Common Economic Area (CEA) on the agreement, Lipman states that Ukraine has the right to trade with...