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What lies ahead is not pretty. There is an element of The Sleepwalkers – Christopher Clark’s masterful account of how Europe marched to war in 1914. But mostly, a low-budget American show gave away the game. This is Walking Dead Europe.
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RT | April 6, 2016 The Austrian President Heinz Fischer says the EU has to find a way to lift sanctions against Russia. “I always say that sanctions are disadvantageous for both sides,” Fischer said at Wednesday’s meeting with Russia’s State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin. “It is important to find a way to lift them […]

With the debate going on about whether the UK should renew the Trident missile programme or get rid of it, hardly anything is said about what is happening internationally to rid the world of nuclear weapons – which shows how inward-looking Britain can be, despite claiming a prime position on the world stage.
While national media reported on the Stop Trident demonstration in London, it ignored the discussions taking place in Geneva, or their background including:

All anti-nuclear campaigners in Britain knew that Jeremy Corbyn wanted rid of Trident, the UK’s nuclear missile; he’s been at the forefront of anti-nuclear campaigning for longer than quite a few British MPs have been alive.

Since the unification of German states by Bismark in 1871, the German question has been at the centre of European geopolitics.

By Bjorn Hilt | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | January 11, 2016 At the UN General assembly last fall there was an essential vote on the future of mankind. Resolution number A/RES/70/33 calling for the international society to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations had been submitted by Austria, Brazil, Chile, […]

In the US we are still swimming from the FDA’s approval of GM salmon, while across the world, member states of the EU, Hungary, and Austria team up to make sure genetically modified food isn’t getting into their countries.
Hungary Today reports:

There are more than 1200 Greek islands, and fewer than 300 of them are populated. An Egyptian billionaire is in talks to possibly purchase two of these islands to give refugees from Syria a place to land, and possibly their own ‘country’ instead of returning to a war-torn region.

Sputnik – 30.07.2015 The soldiers carried assault rifles in their luggage, but had no approval, Kurier reported. A few days ago, a group of American soldiers caused a security alert at Vienna’s Schwechat airport. The men were stopped while trying to travel with army weapons to Ukraine without any necessary permits, the newspaper wrote. The […]