"The publication of the ’diary’ of Fabrizio Gatti in L’Espresso magazine, in which, disguised as a migrant, the reporter spent 8 days in a temporary shelter and underwent a number of outrageous abuses, is further proof of our claims that shelters like the one in Lampedusa should be closed," said Refounded Communists leader Fausto Bertinotti.
"Earlier this year," he added, "our own MEP Giusto Catania reported the abuses which are perpetrated on a daily basis at the temporary shelter in (...)
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MIGRANTS: BERTINOTTI, SHELTERS ARE INHUMAN PLACES
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Information on the results of the early national elections in Germany of 18 September, 2005
22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
These elections have been called by the German Federal President on the initiative of chancellor Schröder one year before the term of the red green government ended. Confronted with a dramatic fall in popularity and a long series of lost lander elections because of his neo-liberal economic and social policies, its brutal dismantling of the German welfare state, the chancellor took what he saw as the last chance to receive the voters’ mandate to stay in power. SPD and Greens made their (...)
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German election : a clear rejection of right-wing policies
20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy Peter Schwarz
The result of the election for the German parliament (Bundestag) on Sunday can be interpreted in only one way: policies based on welfare cuts and the re-division of social wealth to benefit the rich have met with bitter resistance from the German population and been vigorously rejected.
Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had arranged the early election in order to create a stable parliamentary majority for the implementation of his thoroughly unpopular program of (...) -
Call for international mobilizations in Geneva. STOP the WTO corporate agenda before Hong Kong
20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
With December’s Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in view, WTO members are speeding up negotiations to ensure a successful outcome. The collapse of the trade talks in Cancun still in mind, the WTO changed their negotiating strategy. Negotiators will seek to resolve major conflicting issues in Geneva during General Council meetings - thus avoiding the public scrutiny and popular pressures that contributed to previous deadlocks. Decisions would thus be taken in an even more opaque and (...)
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All Chao’s Children
19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)
by Don Snowden
Manu Chao may be an anomalous ripple breaking the surface of the Anglo music world, but the Energizer Bunny skankster is riding the crest of a wave that’s been developing for more than a decade in southern Europe-not that anyone outside the Mediterranean rim really got a chance to hear it grow. What goes on musically in France, Spain, and Italy passes undetected on the radar screen of the dominant U.S.-Anglo pop (...) -
UK under pressure to stem Afghan opium growth
18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Mark Oliver
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, and EU interior ministers were today grappling with how to stop the flood of narcotics from Afghanistan, increasingly a responsibility of the UK.
The UK is under pressure from EU countries to take a lead role in the fight against heroin production in Afghanistan, with Britain taking over the Nato mission in the country next May.
As much as 90% of the heroin from Afghanistan ends up in Europe and there is concern about the impotency (...) -
Leftists win elections in Norway
13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsOSLO, NORWAY — Norway was poised for a power shift after the left-leaning opposition won a majority of seats in parliament with pledges to spend more of the nation’s oil wealth on welfare, official election results showed early today.
With more than 96 percent of votes counted, a three-party coalition led by the Labor Party had won 88 seats in the 169-seat assembly, enough to oust the center-right government.
Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, 58, a Christian Democrat who campaigned (...) -
German Plane With Katrina Aid Turned Back
10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsBERLIN - A German military plane carrying 15 tons of military rations for survivors of Hurricane Katrina was sent back by U.S. authorities, officials said Saturday.
The plane was turned away Thursday because it did not have the required authorization, a German government spokesman said.
The spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, declined to comment on a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel that U.S. authorities refused the delivery on the grounds that the (...) -
Berlin, Meet William Timken
9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Charles Hawley in Berlin
America’s new ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken Jr., introduced himself to Berlin’s press corps on Tuesday. While many in Germany have been critical of Timken’s big business past, Hurricane Katrina was talking point number one.
In September 2001, one of newly appointed German Ambassador Daniel Coats’s first official duties was to accept German aid and solidarity offered in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in New York and Washington.
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Cabinet splits leave the Orange Revolution in tatters
9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Tom Warner
Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrai-ne’s president, appeared dejected when he appeared in front of journalists yesterday to announce that, in effect, the Orange Revolution had ground to a halt.
The fervour that swept him and firebrand leader Yulia Tymoshenko to power last winter had dissipated, ground down by months of bickering among political camps that led to this week’s bitter accusations of corruption among top-ranking officials.
But much of the blame for the collapse of his (...)