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	Learning the Lessons of the European Union's Failed Middle East Policies - Gerald M. Steinberg
		On the contrary, the evidence demonstrates that the EU's approaches and initiatives suffer from a lack of credibility, and relations with Israel are marked by sharp political and ideological confrontation, and boycotts.
		EU policy is also strongly criticized on ethical grounds for its "moral equivalence," in which Israeli actions to protect the lives of its citizens are equated with Palestinian terror.
		The official institutions of the EU have maintained a disproportionate dependence on interpretations and analyses presented by the secular Israeli Left, as well as journalists and academics that are closely associated with this pole of Israeli society.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp510.htm (4533 words)

	EUREALIST
		EU law, as agreed by EU member states, sets out procedures which allow an individual GM crop to be approved for cultivation throughout the whole of the EU only if a detailed assessment confirms that it does not pose an unacceptable risk to health or the environment.
		Under current EU law, as agreed by EU member states, the only legitimate grounds for narrowing the geographical scope of an approval to prevent cultivation in a defined zone are the production of clear evidence that the GM crop involved poses a particular risk to the specific area in question.
		The development by the EU of a character in law and, worse, a character in determining criminal law and legal procedure, is repeatedly portrayed as being born of necessity, when in fact it is born of federalist fanaticism.
	eurealist.blogspot.com (11419 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| EU agrees anti-terrorism measures
		EU leaders also agreed to resume formal talks on the bloc's first constitution, seeking to reach a deal by mid-June.
		The EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said shortly before the summit began that more needed to be done to tackle the factors behind terrorism.
		Streamlining EU institutions is seen as vital if administrative and political gridlock is to be avoided after the 10 new countries join the 15-member bloc on 1 May.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3566845.stm (600 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Police hose down anti-EU marchers
		They directed a water cannon into the crowd near the Phoenix Park venue for the EU summit before a phalanx of officers with shields forced it back.
		It was a surreal standoff in a leafy avenue of detached houses, our correspondent notes, and at one point a water cannon, borrowed from Northern Ireland's police, was used to contain the crowd.
		Inside the compound, the EU leaders were dining and it is unlikely they heard anything of the disturbances, our correspondent adds.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3677337.stm (375 words)

	CNN.com - EU approves anti-smoking measures - May 15, 2001
		The European Parliament ruled that all cigarette packets sold in the EU after September 2002 are to have health warnings covering at least 30 percent of the front and 40 percent of the back.
		All 15 EU governments will be given the option of using photographs showing stained teeth, diseased lungs and other related consequences by the end of 2002.
		Other EU tobacco restrictions are in the pipeline and include a proposed minimum tax on cigarettes and a renewed attempt to limit tobacco advertising.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/15/tobacco.marketing/index.html (437 words)

	ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - "Nationalism and anti-EU mobilization in postsocialist Europe" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this paper, anti-EU mobilization in post-socialist EU accession states is treated as a relevant phenomenon both on attitude and parliamentary level.
		Two party families are bound to rely on the EU issue in their efforts to attract voters: nationalist and post-communist parties.
		Whereas nationalist forces tend to reject the whole idea of integration for ideological reasons, post-communist forces throw an eye on the redistributive effect of Brussels' structural funds and therefore are somewhat contradictory as to the scope of EU rejection.
	aei.pitt.edu /archive/00000527 (189 words)

	EU Referendum
		That much was revealed by ECA president Hubert Weber at the EU parliament in Strasbourg yesterday, leading to a predictable chorus of disapproval, not least from the Conservatives and UKIP, which denounces "The EU's Fairytale Accounts".
		Several reports, not least in Eupolitix and The Independent point up that because about 80 percent of EU spending is conducted by national and regional authorities and it is in these areas that the greatest concern is expressed by the Court.
		When the EU parliament itself – one of the cheerleaders for EU environmental legislation – has cold feet, this is clear evidence of a certain loss of enthusiasm for the project.
	eureferendum.blogspot.com (9141 words)

	TEAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The EU Commission is planning to use the "enhanced cooperation" provisions of the Treaty of Nice to harmonise company taxes, beginning with the tax base and inevitably moving on in time to tax rates...
		An alternative EU "It must be recognised that a structured exchange of freely invented ideas without force can replace the idea that every country must have the same view, the same laws and rules, and make the same experiments...
		The proposed EU Constitution grants to the EU significant characteristics of a state, such as flag, anthem, army, currency, legal precedence and personality, a motto and a national day, all combined with a foreign policy monopoly and the right to further its powers without consent of the national parliaments.
	www.teameurope.info (1776 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| The EU directly funds anti-Semitism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moreover, underlying the abject EU failure to confront anti-Semitism is another, less visible truth: the Palestinian Authority, which receives millions of euros from the EU annually, vigorously promotes explicit anti-Semitism in its schools and on television.
		And it is certainly not unreasonable for Jews to expect the EU - with Poland's accession, now truly the home of the Holocaust - to be thoroughly vigilant in identifying and repressing violent anti-Semitism.
		It is a condescending parody of human nature to depict Jews solely as a saintly and victimised caste of musicians, scientists and artists: and it is a similarly patronising falsehood for the EU to try to portray the Muslims of Europe as being unfailingly tolerant residents of a brave new Continent.
	www.dailytelegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/01/11/do1106.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/01/11/ixop.html (817 words)

	EU anti-spam laws are OK \| The Register
		For although there is one EU anti-spam law, how it is interpreted and implemented is up to each individual European country.
		Joe McNamee, EU Policy Director from Political Intelligence, public affairs consultancy specialising in ICT, accepts that the new legislation "is not a complete answer to the problem of spam" and that there are plenty of issues that still need to be resolved.
		At least within the borders of the EU, email as a marketing tool can use the new rules to develop a new credibility and marketers can use this to develop original and innovative ways of using the array of legal online advertising options at their disposal.
	www.theregister.co.uk /content/55/35072.html (1737 words)

	CNN.com - EU launches anti-BSE drive - December 4, 2000
		An EU farm official, who asked not to be named, said Germany and Finland voted against the ban, while Belgium abstained.
		EU Health Commissioner David Byrne conceded the proposals would be expensive but said: "It is the price which must be paid to restore public confidence in our commitment to protect public health."
		A purchase for destruction scheme proposed by EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fishler for older animals would add another $1 billion to the bill for European taxpayers.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/germany/12/04/bse.summit.02 (572 words)

	Anti-EU sentiment sweeps Croatia after rebuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Croatia's chances of joining the European Union in 2009 are at least temporally on hold as the EU said this past week it was waiting to begin accession negotiations because Zagreb is not fully cooperating with the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.
		Croatians are dismayed with the postponement of EU membership negotiations.
		Support for joining the EU dropped three percentage points this month to 44 percent and is expected to drop further.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/mar05/hed6960.shtml (479 words)

	USATODAY.com - Protests mark EU parliament elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But most of the 350 million EU citizens eligible to vote didn't bother to: turnout was a record low of 45.3%.
		Of the 10 new members that joined the EU in May, the eight from the former Soviet bloc showed particularly little appetite for the vote, with the worst turnout — a mere 20% — in Slovakia.
		The third-largest group in the EU assembly was the Liberal Democrats with 64.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-13-euro-elections_x.htm (1013 words)

	The Road to Euro Serfdom
		The new German government plans to use its 2007 presidency of the EU to revive the ratification of the EU constitution, according to a coalition deal struck on Friday (11 November).
		The EU, regarded as the biggest problem in the WTO talks, is blaming everyone else.
		Therefore I was delighted to see that the EU plans to give large chunks of our cash to France, already the biggest recipient of the wasteful CAP.
	eu-serf.blogspot.com (2609 words)

	The Gothenburg 2001 anti-EU summit protest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Secondly, of course, the EU is hardly a democratic organisation even in the narrow sense that Blair probably means.
		This was agreed at the last summit of EU leaders in December and aims to reform the EU's institutions to allow them to cope with an enlarged Union of up to 27 members.
		Yes, indeed, unlike the EU, we "undemocratic" anarchists recognise that freedom means more than being allowed to pick your masters -- it means being able to control your own life, both as individuals and as part of groups, associations, communities and workplaces.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/gothenburg.html (2194 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Move for anti-gay EU chief scrapped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He said he was not submitting his team for approval and would be holding new consultations with EU leaders and MEPs.
		Under the EU Treaty, the new commission should take office on November 1 after the express approval of the European Parliament but, with Mr Barroso now not submitting his team for approval, that could not happen.
		EU may give £700m in aid to cities of France torn by riots (14-Nov-05)
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=1244622004 (511 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Anti-EU peer given Brussels grant
		Last weekend he wrote in a pamphlet published by the independent thinktank Civitas that the EU was a "corrupt octopus" and was a success "only for those who make money out of it".
		The 63-year-old peer called the EU system of grants and subsidies to farmers a "whole vast swindle" and said Britons were forced to pay "higher taxes"...
		He added that the United Kingdom gives the EU some £11bn a year: "Of this, they have been good enough to send back to us an average of some £7bn, always for projects which are designed to enhance their wretched image (including the Common Agricultural Policy)".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /eu/story/0,9061,1495314,00.html (520 words)

	U.S. Says "Wrestling" With Anti-EU Biotech Case - 2/11Reuters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The EU Commission has said a trade case would be counter-productive towards its efforts to end the ban by pushing through legislation to trace and label GM food before allowing it on supermarket shelves.
		The U.S. trade official said the Bush administration was not only looking at lost sales when considering whether to launch its case, but at the example the EU was setting for the rest of the world with its resistance to GM products.
		U.S. officials have accused the EU of immorality in the GM case as the bloc's stance has convinced some African countries to refuse aid as it was GM food.
	www.fass.org /fasstrack/news_item.asp?news_id=1018 (227 words)

	Anti-EU protests in Greek city amid unprecedented security -DAWN - International; June 20, 2003
		Salonika is expected to bear the brunt of protests as an unprecedented land, air and sea operation by Greek security has turned the area around the summit venue of Porto Carras 150 kilometres away into an impenetrable fortress.
		“EU leaders: not just undesirable, they are enemies,” proclaimed a leaflet handed out by demonstrators as about 1,000 anarchists took to the streets of Salonika on Thursday, with heavy rain keeping numbers down.
		The summit — the last major event of Greece’s EU presidency to be hosted on Greek soil — will be the first serious test of the country’s security apparatus ahead of the Athens Olympics in 2004.
	www.dawn.com /2003/06/20/int6.htm (524 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		It was reported last week that the EU Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia had decided not to release the findings of an extensive study it had commissioned on the basis that the results were ‘flawed’.
		Participants in the study told the press that the EU was simply unwilling to confront the study’s findings that hold Muslims and anti-Israel groups responsible for the bulk of Europe’s rising anti-Semitism.
		The report was prepared for the EU Monitoring Center last year but was not released upon its completion in February of this year.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=53803 (597 words)

	NCSJ - EU's Solana: "There's No Anti-Semitism" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The comments sparked an angry backlash from some lawmakers on the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, who asserted that anti-Semitism was rising at a rate unseen since the end of World War Two and that EU contacts with Arafat undermined President George W. Bush's efforts to advance the "road map" peace initiative.
		EU officials in Washington had no immediate comment.
		The EU has said it is taking action to stiffen anti-prejudice laws and has already strongly condemned anti-Semitic violence in parts of the 15-nation bloc in the first half of 2002.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/062603Reuters_Solana.shtml (370 words)

	intern: Anti-EU-Treffen/Plattformentwurf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eine kritische Haltung gegenüber der EU wird von vielen Linken mit Nationalismus oder gar Rassismus gleichgesetzt.
		Den Widerstand gegen die EU halten wir daher für eine vordringliche Aufgabe fortschrittlicher Politik.
		EU bedeutet in Zukunft, dass von österreichischem Boden wieder Krieg geführt wird, dass auch Österreicher für die Interessen der europäischen Großkonzerne wieder sterben werden.
	www.kpoe.at /intern/0587.html (673 words)

	Statewatch News Online: EU: "Anti-terrorism" legitimises sweeping new "internal security" complex
		In June 2004 Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for defence and foreign policy, announced that internal security services (eg: MI5 in the UK) are to provide intelligence on terrorism to the Joint Situation Centre (SitCen) - part of the EU’s emerging military structure.
		The EU Police Chief’s operational Task Force, which was set-up in 1999, still has no legal basis for its activities and the EU Border Police is developing in the same ad hoc fashion.
		Before the Regulation establishing an EU Border Management Agency had even been agreed the EU had established a ‘Common Unit’ of senior border police, operational centres on sea, land and air borders, and a ‘risk analysis centre’.
	www.statewatch.org /news/2005/jan/06sitcen.htm (705 words)

	Anti-Semitism :: EU leaders express concern over rising anti-Semitism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was the first joint statement by EU leaders on the subject of anti-Semitism since the leaking of an EU-commissioned study which found that most anti-Jewish attacks are carried out by Muslims.
		An EU survey of 7,500 Europeans earlier in the year found 59 percent consider Israel a threat to world peace, a higher percentage of respondents than those who believed Iran and North Korea a threat.
		On Thursday, an official French government report submitted by an Interior Ministry-sponsored task committee concluded that there was a rise in the so-called "new anti-Semitism," relating to a surge in attacks on European Jews since the start of the intifada in 2000, Israel Radio reported.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /5405-EU_leaders_express_concern_over_rising_anti-Semitism.html (834 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Greece - The Thessalonica anti-EU demonstrations
		The EU summit that was recently organized in Thessalonica from June 19 to 21 was met with tens of thousands of Greek workers and youth showing their opposition to the this international club of capitalists gangsters.
		The European "leaders" were discussing the new EU Constitution and the problems of illegal immigration.
		However, while they were discussing in the comfort of the luxurious venue this event was held at, outside there were people with a different opinion.
	www.marxist.com /greece-thessalonica-anti-eu270603.htm (889 words)

	Amnesty takes on EU over anti-terror laws - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, in practice, the EU and its Member States are too often prepared to remain silent on breaches of rights protection within or outside the EU," Amnesty International said.
		The EU launched a drive against terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed 2,800 people and stepped it up after the Madrid train bombings on March 11, 2004, that killed another 200.
		Counter-terrorism and EU Criminal Law," was presented by Amnesty International as the first analysis of its kind of the overall implications of the EU's recent wave of counter-terrorism initiatives.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20050601-020510-2777r.htm (671 words)

	EU body shelves report on anti-semitism - Likud of Holland / Likoed Nederland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among many recent incidents, a Jewish school near Paris was firebombed last Saturday, the same day two Istanbul synagogues were devastated by suicide truck bombs that killed 25 and wounded 300.
		Turkey, which hopes to join the EU, suffered again at the hands of what are believed to be al-Qaeda inspired terrorists on Thursday with truck bomb attacks on British targets.
		In July, Robert Wexler, a US congressman, wrote to Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, demanding the release of the study.
	www.likud.nl /press303.html (491 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Barroso stands by anti-gay EU nominee
		The row is an acute embarrassment to the president of an avowedly secular commission as it heads for accession talks with largely Muslim Turkey, if EU leaders, sharply divided on the issue, agree at their December 17 summit.
		Mr Buttiglione, the first commissioner-designate to be rejected by a European parliament committee, was said by Mr Barroso's spokeswoman to stand by the EU's new charter of fundamental rights.
		But his opponents, including the gay Labour MEP Michael Cashman, say that he opposed non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation when the charter was being drawn up.
	www.guardian.co.uk /eu/story/0,7369,1326028,00.html (616 words)

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