EU WATCH
World Watch
EU Commission Report on CIA Secret Jail Probe
is Due to EU Parliament by Mid-April.
EU is Currently on Low-Key Surge Against US Interests!
EU Committee of Inquiry is Working in Tandem with the 46-Nation Council of Europe Human Rights Watchdog Lead by a German Lawmaker!
Its Goal is "Enough Evidence for
an International Action Against the US"!
Hello America! Wake Up!!!
The EU is Openly-Avowed to be Your No. 1 Enemy!
Above Introduction by SLG
The below from CRIENGLISH.com -- dateline Jan 12 2006 2:39 AM
Political leaders of the European Parliament will give the green light on Thursday for an investigation into allegations that the CIA operated prisons in the European Union, one leader told Reuters.
Leaders of the Parliament's seven political groups and President Josep Borrell will meet on Thursday to finalize details of the investigation, said Brian Crowley, Irish MEP and leader of the Union for Europe of Nations (UEN) Group.
"We will set the terms of reference for a committee of inquiry and the practical parameters of the investigation," Crowley said in an interview.
He said the inquiry would start immediately after it was formally ratified by the parliament next week and it would be expected to report back within 12 weeks at the latest. The committee would have no legal powers.
"What we hope to do is gather enough evidence which will be the catalyst for real action on the issue on an international level," Crowley said.
The European Parliament inquiry is to work in tandem with an investigation by the Council of Europe, the 46-nation human rights watchdog, in to whether EU countries allowed themselves to be used for the illegal transport and detention of prisoners.
European lawmakers have accused leaders of the 25-country bloc of failing to press the United States hard enough on media reports that the CIA was running secret jails in Eastern Europe and covertly flying prisoners through EU airports.
The controversy eased in December after several EU countries declared themselves satisfied with assurances by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice while on a trip to Europe that U.S. treatment of detainees was within international law.
Crowley said the committee would consist of 46 members with German lawmaker and chairman of the Parliament's foreign affairs committee, Elmar Brok, expected to lead it.
"We will liaise with the Council of Europe, but we hope to get to the bottom of this issue ourselves with member states expected to come forward with evidence," Crowley said.
The move comes on the eve of a meeting of justice and home affairs ministers of the 25 EU member states in Vienna.
Whereas the CIA issue has raised a lot of concern in the EU, it is not officially on the agenda of the ministerial meeting, said a spokesman from the Austrian presidency of the EU.
The issue is expected to come up when German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets U.S. President George Bush in Washington on Friday.
(Source: Reuters)
A New Independence Day is Coming
One that Will Not Be Celebrated by Americans!
Watch for EU energy policies that will ''liberalize'' the oil market from the US Dollar to the euro.
See the soft-pedalling mechanics of this, already in the works, in the 24-March-2006 report below.
The reason for this? To break the power of the US and its allies (financially and militarily), and to ready a bloc that will suddenly become a European super power independent of and mightier than the US and its brother countries.
Above introduction by SLG
The following news report is from from www.ChinaView.cn
dateline 24-March-2006 11:27 PM
EU to Adopt
Common Energy Policy
BRUSSELS, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) summit which concluded here on Friday agreed to begin work on a common approach to energy policy across the 25-member bloc.
The heads of government from the member states approved plans to establish a European energy strategy, which aims to liberalize the energy market in Europe, deal more effectively with external suppliers of oil and gas, improve security of supply, and open markets to competition.
The strategy also requires major investment in renewable energies by EU states to reduce the bloc's dependency on oil.
Mid-2007 was fixed for full energy market liberalization, and 2020 was set as a deadline for achieving a 20 percent energy saving.
The summit also required the EU foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana to table a proposal on the external relations strategy concerning energy.
"I'm very happy that our proposal was well-received," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the closing press conference.
Under Barroso's leadership, the EU's executive body tabled the common energy strategy to the summit meeting.
In a conclusion document issued by the summit, the EU leaders listed three objectives for the bloc's energy policy:
-- increasing security of supply;
-- ensuring the competitiveness of European economies and the affordability of energy supply to the benefit of both businesses and consumers;
-- promoting environmental sustainability.
In order to achieve these goals, the leaders believed that the 25-member bloc should:
-- Ensure transparency and non-discrimination of markets;
-- Be consistent with competition rules;
-- Be consistent with public service obligations;
-- Fully respect EU member state's sovereignty over primary energy sources and choice of energy-mix.
"Europe is not built in a day," said Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel who chaired the EU summit, as his country is holding the EU presidency.
He said it was not possible to set up a mature EU-wide energy policy "within a few hours" or "within a few days."
However, he noted that the EU leaders had "provided the impetus" to the strategy and the summit was "very successful."
Before the summit, economic protectionism had been widely reported by the western media following a dispute between France and Italy over Italian energy giant Enel's failed merger with the French company, Suez.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized economic protectionism, urging the EU to take more action to liberalize theenergy markets.
"The argument for liberalization has not been totally won but the direction of travel is right," he said, citing 10 Downing Street as an example of the benefits of liberalized energy markets.
"The electricity in Number 10 Downing Street is supplied by a French company, the water by a German company, the gas is suppliedby four companies, three of which are not British," he said.
"Liberalized energy markets and more open markets are good for business and for consumers right across Europe. This argument is being won by those who want to open up to liberalization," he added. Enditem (By Wu Liming )
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Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel
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On 24-March-2006 he said that it takes time "to set up a mature
EU-wide energy policy."
EU Parliament to Launch CIA Probe: Lawmaker
There are many things in the news that are worth watching in regard to the EU. One that I believe is especially noteworthy is now the almost daily news on Bulgaria and Romania's eventual entry into the EU community. This is a matter with potential worth watching their branchings and developments.
Delays make it look as thought their entries may not happen until January 2008 -- but certain events could accelerate the green light on that causing their entries to be ratified by January 2007. Something to keep an eye on as the finality of that jigsaw bloc is placed in shape.
The Central Powers Alliance of WW1
