The European rights court Wednesday cleared the way for Britain's bid to extradite Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan after a six-year battle by refusing an appeal from his lawyer.
A panel of judges dismissed the last-minute defence request lodged last month for a full Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights hearing in the wake of a court ruling in January.
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Because the Euro was never really about finance and economics. It was, and still is, all about political power for the undemocratic elites.
The end goal of the EU has always been an oligarchic technocracy run by an unelected cabal of the elites. Economic chaos at this time is helpful to that end as it allows the EU bureaucracy to grasp more power. What happened to the elected Italian gov't? Austrian? Greek?
This is a new distallation of fascism as Scotch and Bourban are different distallations. Mussolini is laughing his ass off.
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tipper, it was only a stupid idea if you think they meant it to work solely as a currency for financial and economic matters.
Of course, IMHO, it was never meant to be that at all. It is a truism that if you do not have control over your currency you do not have a sovereign state. THAT'S the idea here. The EU wants to get rid of sovereign states within the EU. They want total political, fiscal and monetary control to flow through Brussels.
The Eurobots have systematically stripped sovereignty from large swathes of European countries and this "crisis" was fomented as one of the last nails in the coffin of Euro freedom. They've already demanded total control of country budgets due to the inability of the governments to hew to the EU elite's line.
At best Europe would turn into what Obama wants for the US. Weaker and weaker states in terms of what they can actually do/control and an ever increasing bureaucracy with no responsibility to the public, just to their bretheren in the elites.
As Mussolini showed, you don't need ownership to have total control. You just need a monopoly on force and the ability to write all the laws to support you Corporatist buddies (who cease to be you buddies if they step out of line).
As Dr. North at EU Referendum has pointed out, early and often. There is no real demos in the EU on which to build a real democracy. EG The "peasants" of Hungry, Greece etc. have nothing in common with the Nordic world. In my view what is being build before our eyes is a new version of the Roman Empire. The Romans built with the tools they had available and the EUrocrats use a new more modern set, but, the empire is still the goal.
[Iran Press TV] La Belle France's President-elect Francois Hollande ...the impending Socialist president of La Belle France... has launched a scathing attack on the British government saying Britannia "is indifferent to the fate of the euro area".
La Belle France's Socialist leader said Britannia is only obsessed with the protection of the interests of the City of London, reported The Mail
"The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe," said Hollande.
Hollande is an advocate of an EU-wide transaction tax on financial deals and a fresh push for tax harmonization in Europe, to which Britannia is opposed.
After Hollande's victory over Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... on Sunday night, British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... called him and said he looked forward to "building on the very close relationship that already exists between the UK and La Belle France".
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Hollande has a closer relationship with opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband as they held high-level talks when he visited London in February.
Hollande believes that a shift in focus away from austerity to growth could be a way towards pain-free economic growth for La Belle France and the eurozone saying "austerity can no longer be the only option". Nevertheless, the British press have accused him of creating "cruel illusion".
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NS, would that we could. I'm afraid that the toy boy and the rest of his ilk are firmly embedded in the EU elite and are just playing their role. Things haven't gone exactly as planned or Blair, Brown or Cameron would already have the UK in the Euro.
Anything Cameron says seems to be nothing but blue smoke or stupidity. He, as far as I can see, has no desire to move the slightest bit away from the EU. There will come a time when the EU tells the UK to $#!t or get off the pot on the Euro and after much huffing and puffing Cameron would bend right over.
[Iran Press TV] Greece's left-wing coalition leader has ruled out austerity measures, receiving a mandate to form a new government as elections produced a stalemate in parliament.
Greece's leader of the leftist SYRIZA coalition, Alexis Tsipras, has ruled out budget-cutting austerity measures, opting to meet President Karolos Papaoulias in talks to form a new government on Tuesday.
"The politics of austerity was rejected by the majority of Greece's people, and is being rejected by all European peoples," says Tsipras, calling for an end to the "plunder" of salaries and pensions.
Referring to the EU-IMF bailout plan, Tsipras said that "we asked for a mandate to form a coalition government of left-wing forces in order to disengage ourselves from the memorandum of bankruptcy."
This comes as Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras has failed in talks to form a unity government after being shunned by anti-austerity parties that made strong gains in Sunday's parliamentary election.
President Papoulia had given Samaras a three-day mandate to put together a coalition after his New Democracy party received the largest share of the vote in the election.
The task of forming a government will now pass to Tsipras, whose party won the second highest number of votes.
Greek voters, angry about the high unemployment rate and severe cuts to pension and pay, punished the pro-austerity parties, New Democracy and socialist PASOK, for imposing harsh austerity measures to address the country's debt crisis.
The outcome of the Greek parliamentary election combined with the electoral defeat of the ruling party in La Belle France has caused alarm among EU leaders.
European Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen said Brussels expects the future government of Greece to respect Greece's prior agreements with the EU and the IMF.
Greece is the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis. One in five workers is unemployed and banks are in a shaky situation, while pensions and salaries have been slashed by up to 40 percent.
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Greece's left-wing coalition leader has ruled out austerity measures, receiving a mandate to form a new government as elections produced a stalemate in parliament.
