Iltalehti Virkkusesta tulee EU:n teknologia- ja turvallisuusasiasioista vastaava komissaari. Komission varapuheenjohtajana Virkkunen koordinoi myös muiden komissaarien töitä. Virkkusen vastuulla ovat teknologia- ja digiasioiden ohella sisäinen turvallisuus, puolustusteollisuus ja oikeusvaltiokysymykset sekä osin innovaatiokysymykset.
Eric Toussaint mfl i en analys av EU-utvecklingen några dar före EU-valen 9.6.24 "The European Eurocracy is planning to give the extreme right a specific role in European government, thereby burying all of the taboos and precautions that Western democracies have taken against these political movements since the end of WWII".
Apropå "the Eurocracy". Jag misstänker att Spinelli är upphovsman till begreppet, liksom det egentligen var han som namngav den europeiska unionen. Se Spinellis bok "The Eurocrats" från 1966 och Spinelligruppens utkast till fördrag om Europeiska unionen, som antogs av europaparlamentet år 1984.
Toussaint m fl skriver:
"The most powerful EU leaders not only approve the Zionist state’s policy of war crimes against the civilian population of Gaza, citing a non-existent ‘right to defence’ on the part of an occupying power. They also repress and attempt to ban any internal voices that oppose unconditional EU support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine and genocide of Gazans. The McCarthyite drift has a true goal: not simply to eliminate solidarity with the Palestinian cause, but to discipline the European population around the geostrategic interests of its elites, namely the remilitarization of Europe around the war in Ukraine and unconditional support for Israel".
Ovanstående är lätt att hålla med om. Däremot vill åtminstone inte jag förena mig i de tre skribenternas -- en fransmans, en spanjors och en irländares -- överdrivet antieuropeiska utgjutelse i följande stycke:
"Perhaps the only positive outcome of all of this is that we can finally consign to the dust bin, all of the so-called ‘European values’ and ‘founding myths of peace’ that the EU liberal propaganda machine continues to hammer away at".
Vad de "europeiska värdena" beträffar ska vi nog akta oss att slänga bort rubbet. Idag är det visserligen uppenbart att EU, trots Spinellis och hans kollegors ansträngningar, aldrig blev ett fredsprojekt men det är svårt att se hur vi människor någonsin ska få till världsfred om vi inte lyckas få Europa att slå in på fredens väg.
Pre-planned logistical routes could help stave off a potential Russian attack
How US troops could be sent to front line in European ground war with Russia
In the event of a Russian invasion of Nato, US troops would be shipped to the port of Rotterdam before being transported eastward.
But arrangements are also being made behind the scenes to expand the routes to other ports to ensure the ground line of communications cannot be severed by Moscow’s forces.
Myöskään Saksassa kannatusta kasvattava vasemmistopopulisti Sahra Wagenknechtin puolue ei ole tervetullut vasemmistoryhmään, Andersson sanoo. Wagenknecht vastustaa aseapua Ukrainalle ja tukee kaasukaupan palauttamista Venäjän kanssa.
”Sellaisten tulo ryhmään on täysin poissuljettua.”
Emmanuel Macron s'est dit prêt à ouvrir un débat sur une défense européenne qui, outre les armes de longue portée et antimissiles, pourrait comprendre les armes nucléaires. Des propos qui ont suscité la colère de la classe politique française.
Michael von der Schulenburg was a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and worked for over 34 years in many war zones around the world in a leading role in UN peace missions. He is candidate for the Bündnis Sahrah Wagenknecht at the forthcoming European Elections [9,6,]
This could have been the European Union’s hour to take greater responsibility in showing a peaceful way out of the Ukraine war. After all, it was unresolved conflicts in Europe that caused humanity to descend into the catastrophe of two World Wars. Europe should not again be the source of such a human disaster and therefore accept it historic responsibility by taking a reconciliatory approach to the Ukraine war. After all, this is the first war in human history in which nuclear arms play a strategic role and any miscalculation could bring an apocalypse on humankind that is unimaginably greater than anything we know from the two World Wars.
An der Verlässlichkeit der USA als NATO-Partner bestehen seit einer Trump-Rede große Zweifel. SPD-Europakandidatin Barley hat deshalb EU-eigene Atombomben ins Spiel gebracht. Brandgefährlich sei das, kritisiert ein Parteigenosse.
Highlights, press releases and speeches. Till exempel: An amendment of the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI Factories, a new pillar for the EU's supercomputers Joint Undertaking activities. This includes:
Acquiring, upgrading and operating AI-dedicated supercomputers to enable fast machine learning and training of large General Purpose AI (GPAI) models;
Facilitating access to the AI dedicated supercomputers, contributing to the widening of the use of AI to a large number of public and private users, including startups and SMEs;