The European Parliament on Thursday voted to downgrade its attendance
at the November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia over human rights concerns,
and to urge for sanctions.
The bill is one of the strongest
political messages the institution has ever issued on Saudi Arabia and
comes on the two-year anniversary of the killing of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi.
MEPs approved a wide-ranging resolution that condemns
Saudi human rights abuses and urges the European Union to downgrade its
representation at the upcoming G20 Leaders' Summit to avoid legitimizing human rights violations.
Belgian
MEP and vice chair of the delegation for the relations with Arab
Peninsula Marc Tarabella said: "We are all aware of the importance of
Saudi Arabia as a partner of the European Union and for the stability of
the Middle East. However, this must not be an alibi for violating human
rights."
Read more at:
European Parliament urges EU to snub Saudi G20 Summit | News | DW | 08.10.2020
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July 4, 2019
The new EU Leadership Team: Who are the EU's new leaders? - by Koert Debeuf
The new EU Leadership team is starting to come in place.
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May 6, 2019
France-Hungary-Poland: Le Pen courts EU Far Right in bid for European Parliament Alliance
Le Pen courts Hungarian, Polish far right in bid for European Parliament alliance France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen reached out to her counterparts in Hungary and Poland, both already in government, during a European elections campaign meeting in Brussels.
April 18, 2019
EU: Freedom of the Press: Whistle-blowers in the EU have been given more legislative protection
Whistle-blowers across Europe now have more protection, but Assange divides opinion
March 27, 2019
EU: European MPs vote to end summer time clock change
European MPs vote to end summer time clock changes
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March 5, 2019
ISIS: Danish political parties want to strip foreign fighters of citizenship – but US Trump threatening the EU they will release them in Syria if they don't take them back
This week it emerged that the UK had decided to revoke the British
citizenship of Shamima Begum, a so-called Islamic State (IS) bride who
wants to return to the UK after leaving London four years ago to join
ranks of the jihadist organisation in Syria.
Now, several parties in Denmark are looking to follow suit following a proposal from Dansk Folkeparti (DF) that aims to strip the Danish citizenship of people who travelled abroad to fight alongside IS.
So far, government parties Venstre and Konservative have supported DF’s proposal, although they are not in favour of doing anything that might be in breach of international conventions.
But despite this, the justice minister Søren Pape Poulsen said today that Denmark would likely have to accept the foreign fighters back.
“This is a complex problem and there is no perfect or simple solution. The fact is we can’t deny Danish citizens returning to Denmark,” said Poulsen.
The news comes after the US president Donald Trump urged European countries to bring back its foreign fighters the US are detaining in Syria. Otherwise, the US would have to simply release them.
But despite this, it looks as if some areas of the political spectrum will be doing their best to avoid such a scenario.
“We don’t want to breach conventions, but we will take it to the limit. We must send a clear signal that they are not welcome and we don’t want them back in Denmark – they also present a serious security risk,” Michael Aastrup Jensen, Venstre’s spokesperson on foreign affairs issues, told DR Nyheder.
Read more: Danish parties want to strip foreign fighters of citizenship – The Post
Now, several parties in Denmark are looking to follow suit following a proposal from Dansk Folkeparti (DF) that aims to strip the Danish citizenship of people who travelled abroad to fight alongside IS.
So far, government parties Venstre and Konservative have supported DF’s proposal, although they are not in favour of doing anything that might be in breach of international conventions.
But despite this, the justice minister Søren Pape Poulsen said today that Denmark would likely have to accept the foreign fighters back.
“This is a complex problem and there is no perfect or simple solution. The fact is we can’t deny Danish citizens returning to Denmark,” said Poulsen.
The news comes after the US president Donald Trump urged European countries to bring back its foreign fighters the US are detaining in Syria. Otherwise, the US would have to simply release them.
But despite this, it looks as if some areas of the political spectrum will be doing their best to avoid such a scenario.
“We don’t want to breach conventions, but we will take it to the limit. We must send a clear signal that they are not welcome and we don’t want them back in Denmark – they also present a serious security risk,” Michael Aastrup Jensen, Venstre’s spokesperson on foreign affairs issues, told DR Nyheder.
Note EU-Digest: It is unbelievable how subservient
the EU and its member states seem when reacting to US threats, even if
it goes against their own principles. Aren't they all aware by now that
the US Trump Administration has no respect for the EU, or cares about
anything the EU does or says. Come on EU show some backbone.
Read more: Danish parties want to strip foreign fighters of citizenship – The Post
February 7, 2019
The Netherlands and US Big Pharma Clash: US "Big Pharma" lashes out at Dutch Government for wanting to control pricing
Note Almere-Digest: It looks like the US Pharmaceutical Industry is
also trying to use the same heavy handed political tactics and arguments
in the Netherlands like they are used to doing in America. In the
Netherlands they are doing their lobbying through their membership in
the local chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce, which even has a
specific Pharmaceutical Committee within that organization. US Big
Pharma and Chemical Industry Lobbyists are also swarming all over the EU
parliament to promote their products and influence the European
decision makers.Hopefully the Dutch Government and the EU Commission
will continue to resist these devious attempts to influence the
government decision makers
Read more at:
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2019/02/06/netherlands-novartis-vertex-drug-prices/
Read more at:
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2019/02/06/netherlands-novartis-vertex-drug-prices/
February 5, 2019
EU-US Relations: Europeans fear Trump may threaten not just the transatlantic bond, but the state of their union - by Dan Balz and Griff Witte
As President Trump prepares to deliver
his second State of the Union address, the leaders of the United
States’ closest allies in Europe are filled with anxiety
.
Read more: Europeans fear Trump may threaten not just the transatlantic bond, but the state of their union - The Washington Post
.
They
are unsure of whom to talk to in Washington. They can’t tell whether
Trump considers them friends or foes. They dig through his Twitter feed
for indications of whether the president intends to wreck the European
Union and NATO or merely hobble the continent’s core institutions.
Officials
say Trump, by design or indifference, has already badly weakened the
foundation of the transatlantic relationship that American presidents
have nurtured for seven decades. As Sigmar Gabriel, a former German
foreign minister, put it: “He has done damage that the Soviets would
have dreamt of.”
European leaders worry that
the next two years could bring even more instability, as Trump feels
emboldened, and they are filled with fear at the prospect that Trump
could be reelected. The situation has left the continent facing a
strategic paradox no one has managed to crack.
“We can’t live with Trump,” Gabriel said. “And we can’t live without the United States.”
In more than two dozen interviews in London, Paris and Berlin — the
three European capitals at the heart of the Western alliance —
government officials, former officials and independent analysts
described a partnership with Washington that, while still working
smoothly at some levels, has become deeply dysfunctional at others.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime
Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron have tried
different strategies, but all have struggled to develop consistent and
reliable relationships with Trump. Lacking a better alternative, the
dominant European approach has been to wait him out and hope the damage
can be contained.
In all three capitals, there
is talk about somehow trying to go it alone, if necessary — to chart
Europe’s course. Merkel stated it as bluntly as anyone when she said in a
Munich beer hall that Europe must “take our destiny into our own
hands.”
That
was two years ago this spring, and since then, Europe has taken only
cautious steps in that direction — proposals for a European army being
one example. Despite modest increases in European defense spending, the
United States continues to account for over two-thirds of military
spending among NATO members. Europe struggles to keep big, multilateral
initiatives alive without American support.
European
officials continue to work as hard as ever to preserve relationships
with the president and the administration, despite fears and
frustrations.
“We manage,” said a senior
European politician, who like others in government spoke on the
condition of anonymity to freely discuss a sensitive relationship.
“Governing by tweets is not the same as governing by diplomatic
engagement. It’s a different process. But it’s something we accept and
adapt to. I don’t think that our surprise on a daily basis is any
greater than that of his own administration.”
Others,
often those who are no longer in government, express a less sanguine
view. They see a president ticking through his campaign promises and
notice uncomfortably that Europe is on the wrong end of many of them.
Littered among the wreckage, as seen by the
Europeans: an all-but-ruined Iran nuclear deal, tit-for-tat tariffs, a
global climate accord that is missing the world’s largest economy, a
possible arms race triggered by the cancellation of a key nuclear
treaty, and a unilateral retreat from Syria without even a courtesy call
to allies that work alongside U.S. forces.
More than any one issue, however, there is the sense that Trump and Europe are fundamentally at odds.
Note EU-Digest: Hopefully the EU will be able to defend itself over the coming two years or less against this loud-mouth, uncouth ego-maniac, spoiled bully, before he is either locked-up, or impeached.
Note EU-Digest: Hopefully the EU will be able to defend itself over the coming two years or less against this loud-mouth, uncouth ego-maniac, spoiled bully, before he is either locked-up, or impeached.
January 29, 2019
EU: Pesticides in food: what is the European Parliament doing to help?
Europeans are concerned about pesticide residues in food and their
potential effect on health. Find out how MEPs are tackling the issue.
About 50% of the food tested by the European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA) in 2016 contained pesticide residues, with 3.8% exceeding legal
limits.
In the EU, pesticides and the active substances in them are
carefully monitored, but in recent years, concern has been raised over
the approval procedure, especially after controversy about the renewal
of glyphosate approval in 2017.
To better protect people’s health the European Parliament wants action to improve the management of pesticide use in the EU.
More transparent pesticide approval procedure
In February 2018, Parliament appointed a special committee to look into
the EU’s authorisation procedure for pesticides. On 16 January, MEPs
backed the committee’s final report pushing for more transparent
procedures to ensure political accountability.
MEPs recommend that:
*The public should be granted access to studies used in the authorisation procedure
*Manufacturers asking for substance approval should register all
regulatory studies in a public register to ensure all relevant
information is taken into account
*Scientific experts should review studies on carcinogenicity of
glyphosate and maximum residue levels for soils and surface water should
be set
*Pesticides and their active substances should be tested thoroughly,
taking into account cumulative effects and long-term toxicityPesticides
should no longer be used over a wide area near schools, childcare
facilities, playing fields, hospitals, maternity hospitals and care
homes
Better access to studies on food chain safety
In December 2018 Parliament voted in favour of an update of the general
food law regulation covering food safety in EU at all stages of the food
chain, including animal health, plant protection and production.
The proposed new rules aim to improve public access to studies used by
the European Food Safety Agency in the risk assessment of food products,
and to ensure the studies are reliable, objective and independent.
A common European registry would be set up for commissioned studies, so
the European Food Safety Agency can check whether companies are
suppressing any unfavourable studies. If there is reason to doubt the
evidence provided by the applicants, the agency could request additional
studies.
Read more at:
EU: Pesticides in food: what is the European Parliament doing to help?
potential effect on health. Find out how MEPs are tackling the issue.
About 50% of the food tested by the European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA) in 2016 contained pesticide residues, with 3.8% exceeding legal
limits.
In the EU, pesticides and the active substances in them are
carefully monitored, but in recent years, concern has been raised over
the approval procedure, especially after controversy about the renewal
of glyphosate approval in 2017.
To better protect people’s health the European Parliament wants action to improve the management of pesticide use in the EU.
More transparent pesticide approval procedure
In February 2018, Parliament appointed a special committee to look into
the EU’s authorisation procedure for pesticides. On 16 January, MEPs
backed the committee’s final report pushing for more transparent
procedures to ensure political accountability.
MEPs recommend that:
*The public should be granted access to studies used in the authorisation procedure
*Manufacturers asking for substance approval should register all
regulatory studies in a public register to ensure all relevant
information is taken into account
*Scientific experts should review studies on carcinogenicity of
glyphosate and maximum residue levels for soils and surface water should
be set
*Pesticides and their active substances should be tested thoroughly,
taking into account cumulative effects and long-term toxicityPesticides
should no longer be used over a wide area near schools, childcare
facilities, playing fields, hospitals, maternity hospitals and care
homes
Better access to studies on food chain safety
In December 2018 Parliament voted in favour of an update of the general
food law regulation covering food safety in EU at all stages of the food
chain, including animal health, plant protection and production.
The proposed new rules aim to improve public access to studies used by
the European Food Safety Agency in the risk assessment of food products,
and to ensure the studies are reliable, objective and independent.
A common European registry would be set up for commissioned studies, so
the European Food Safety Agency can check whether companies are
suppressing any unfavourable studies. If there is reason to doubt the
evidence provided by the applicants, the agency could request additional
studies.
Read more at:
EU: Pesticides in food: what is the European Parliament doing to help?
January 16, 2019
EU - Economy - EURO: 20th. Anniversary of the EURO
European parliament marks 20th anniversary of euro
Note EU-Digest: A success story - 20 years EURO (€) currency. Remember those days before the EURO when driving by car from Holland to France, via Belgium and Germany, and having to exchange Dutch guilders to Belgian francs, German marks and French francs, paying the bank a percentage for each currency exchange they made, and also stopping at each border for custom controls. It is difficult to understand how some people want to go back to those "old days" before the EU and the € .Yes indeed #LoveTheEuro and #LoveTheEU
Note EU-Digest: A success story - 20 years EURO (€) currency. Remember those days before the EURO when driving by car from Holland to France, via Belgium and Germany, and having to exchange Dutch guilders to Belgian francs, German marks and French francs, paying the bank a percentage for each currency exchange they made, and also stopping at each border for custom controls. It is difficult to understand how some people want to go back to those "old days" before the EU and the € .Yes indeed #LoveTheEuro and #LoveTheEU
November 25, 2018
EU The Academic view: A vision for Europe is desperately needed – by Maria Graczyk
Liberals are better at pointing out others’ faults than at doing
self-reflection. They spend more time explaining away the popularity of
populism than explaining the fall of liberalism, says Jan Zielonka,
adding that the EU has become a caricature of a neo-liberal project and
needs a new vision.
For now, we are treading water. We are faking reforms, re-heating old ideas we did not accomplish at a time when there was a better economic situation. Real changes will therefore probably have to be forced by external shocks and therefore will be chaotic and painful.
Nevertheless, nothing happens, politicians dig into the wells. And they return to their discredited policy in previous years. Example? Refugees. For many years we have dealt with warlords and we know how it ended. Today, we are returning to the same model. We have become hostages of Erdogan’s policy with his refugee camps. First of all, I would not like to be hostage to his policy, and secondly – it is a denial of all the values on which liberal Europe was built.
It takes two to tango. Not only is Erdogan responsible for what is happening in Brussels-Ankara relations. When he came to power, he was very pro-European. Nevertheless, none of his efforts to get closer to Europe were successful. He was always told “tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.” In this way, we have deprived ourselves of credibility and instruments of influence on Turkey.
Most EU countries were reluctant towards this enlargement. Just as the Turks were stuck in the EU’s waiting room for years.
Turkey must either be accepted or it needs to be said openly that “we do not accept, but we want to expand our relations in specific areas”. Instead, Turkey has been a candidate for years while we have set its terms.
It was unbelievable. We left our cosmopolitan, pro-European friends in Turkey on the ice. It was similar with Ukraine. I’m not saying that all these problems were solvable, but I know that if we had followed what we declared, it would have not been as bad as it is. We did everything to destroy these good relations.
Read more: Academic: A vision for Europe is desperately needed – EURACTIV.com
For now, we are treading water. We are faking reforms, re-heating old ideas we did not accomplish at a time when there was a better economic situation. Real changes will therefore probably have to be forced by external shocks and therefore will be chaotic and painful.
Nevertheless, nothing happens, politicians dig into the wells. And they return to their discredited policy in previous years. Example? Refugees. For many years we have dealt with warlords and we know how it ended. Today, we are returning to the same model. We have become hostages of Erdogan’s policy with his refugee camps. First of all, I would not like to be hostage to his policy, and secondly – it is a denial of all the values on which liberal Europe was built.
It takes two to tango. Not only is Erdogan responsible for what is happening in Brussels-Ankara relations. When he came to power, he was very pro-European. Nevertheless, none of his efforts to get closer to Europe were successful. He was always told “tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.” In this way, we have deprived ourselves of credibility and instruments of influence on Turkey.
Most EU countries were reluctant towards this enlargement. Just as the Turks were stuck in the EU’s waiting room for years.
Turkey must either be accepted or it needs to be said openly that “we do not accept, but we want to expand our relations in specific areas”. Instead, Turkey has been a candidate for years while we have set its terms.
It was unbelievable. We left our cosmopolitan, pro-European friends in Turkey on the ice. It was similar with Ukraine. I’m not saying that all these problems were solvable, but I know that if we had followed what we declared, it would have not been as bad as it is. We did everything to destroy these good relations.
Read more: Academic: A vision for Europe is desperately needed – EURACTIV.com
November 20, 2018
EU: Migration Into Europe: A Long-Term Solution? - by Branko Milanovic
Why has migration become such a big problem? Many reasons can be
adduced: the war in Syria, the integration of Eastern Europe, lack of
new jobs in many Western countries following the Global Financial Crisis
etc. But listing individual reasons is insufficient to understand it
and think what to do about it.
The origin of the problem, in most general terms, is twofold: (1) globalization that has made the knowledge of differences in income between countries much better known and has reduced the cost of transportation, and (2) large gaps in real incomes between the European Union (especially its more prosperous North) and the Middle East and Africa.
The first point is well known. Many studies show that the more people know about the rest of the world (especially if that rest of the world is richer than their country) the more they compare their own standard of living with that of presumed peers in the richer countries, and the more likely they are to do something about it: namely, to migrate.
The second point has to do with the fact that the gap in GDP per capita between the original EU-15 and sub-Saharan Africa has risen from seven to one in 1980 to 11 to one today. (This is the gap obtained after factoring in the lower price level in Africa; without it, the gap would be even greater.)
At the same time as real incomes have become so unbalanced, population growth rates have become even more so. In 1980, the EU-15 had more people than sub-Saharan Africa; today, sub-Saharan Africa has twice-and-a-half as many people.
Within the next two generations, sub-Saharan Africa should reach 2.5 billion people, five times more than Western Europe. It is totally unrealistic to think that such large income gaps (in one direction) and population gaps (in the other) can persist without generating a very strong migration pressure.
Thus, Europe faces a long-term issue and the following dilemma. As we just saw, if there is globalization and countries involved in globalization have highly uneven incomes, there must be migration. You can stop migration only if you give up on globalization by closing off national borders, or help emitting countries get as rich as Western Europe. The latter would obviously take, under the best of circumstances, at least a century. So, it is not a feasible solution. What then remains is to shut down globalization, at least when it comes to the movement of people.
Read more: Migration Into Europe: A Long-Term Solution? • Social Europe
The origin of the problem, in most general terms, is twofold: (1) globalization that has made the knowledge of differences in income between countries much better known and has reduced the cost of transportation, and (2) large gaps in real incomes between the European Union (especially its more prosperous North) and the Middle East and Africa.
The first point is well known. Many studies show that the more people know about the rest of the world (especially if that rest of the world is richer than their country) the more they compare their own standard of living with that of presumed peers in the richer countries, and the more likely they are to do something about it: namely, to migrate.
The second point has to do with the fact that the gap in GDP per capita between the original EU-15 and sub-Saharan Africa has risen from seven to one in 1980 to 11 to one today. (This is the gap obtained after factoring in the lower price level in Africa; without it, the gap would be even greater.)
At the same time as real incomes have become so unbalanced, population growth rates have become even more so. In 1980, the EU-15 had more people than sub-Saharan Africa; today, sub-Saharan Africa has twice-and-a-half as many people.
Within the next two generations, sub-Saharan Africa should reach 2.5 billion people, five times more than Western Europe. It is totally unrealistic to think that such large income gaps (in one direction) and population gaps (in the other) can persist without generating a very strong migration pressure.
Thus, Europe faces a long-term issue and the following dilemma. As we just saw, if there is globalization and countries involved in globalization have highly uneven incomes, there must be migration. You can stop migration only if you give up on globalization by closing off national borders, or help emitting countries get as rich as Western Europe. The latter would obviously take, under the best of circumstances, at least a century. So, it is not a feasible solution. What then remains is to shut down globalization, at least when it comes to the movement of people.
Read more: Migration Into Europe: A Long-Term Solution? • Social Europe
November 17, 2018
Saudi Arabia: CIA believes Saudi Prince ordered Khashoggi killing
CIA thinks Saudi Prince ordered Khashoggi killing:
Note EU-Digest: This certainly complicates the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve its relationship with a close ally. Hopefully no more business as usual between, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Israel, and the EU
November 13, 2018
Alwaleed bin Talal, Bankruptcy, Donald Trump, Involvement, Prince Mohammad bin Salmanm, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Trump Bailout, USA
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| Donald Trump's relations with the Saudi Kingdom are extensive |
Donald Trump claimed on Twitter recently that he has no “financial interests in Saudi Arabia.” But his financial ties to the kingdom go back a very long way.
In
1991, Donald J. Trump was a mid-tier real estate developer with $900
million in debt, a collapsing casino business, and a name perhaps best
known for a headline-dominating split with his wife Ivana.
With his empire at risk of falling apart, Trump was searching for cash everywhere; his father even illegally bought $3.35 million worth of casino chips and never gambled them, to help Trump make a massive bond payment a year earlier.
A
helpful burst of cash from a Saudi prince eased some tension with his
creditors. Alwaleed bin Talal bought Trump’s yacht for somewhere between
$18 million and $20 million
(reports vary).
It wasn’t a great bit of business for Trump—he had
bought it from the Sultan of Brunei three years earlier for a reported $29 million.
In 1995, Trump was still in deep trouble—and Alwaleed swooped in again. The prince, who calls himself
the “Warren Buffett of Saudi Arabia,” took over Trump’s 51% stake in
his beloved New York Plaza hotel. As a result, Trump’s creditors forgave
$125 million of his debt.
Alwaleed, who was one of several royals to be detained by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in 2017, is deemed the world’s 74th richest man by Bloomberg, and owns stakes in companies like Apple, Snapchat, Twitter and Citigroup.
As late as 2015, Trump was still happy to boast about his connections with Saudi Arabia. Speaking at a rally in Alabama, he bragged: “Saudi
Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They
spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like
them very much.”
November 12, 2018
France: World War I commemoration: Macron rebukes nationalism at commemoration = by David Jackson
Bells tolled across France and Europe on
Sunday as President Donald Trump and other global leaders gathered to
honor the dead of World War I and heed its harsh lessons to prevent
conflicts.
Trump did not respond to Macron publicly.
Read more: France -World War I commemoration: Macron rebukes nationalism at commemoration
French President Emmanuel
Macron, who has criticized Trump's "America First" foreign
policy, decried excessive "nationalism" at the root of World War I and
successive conflicts.
"Nationalism is a betrayal of
patriotism," Macron told a gathering of world leaders, including
Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
and Trump. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying, ‘Our
interest first, who cares about the others?’ "
Hosting
an event to mark the centennial of the armistice that ended World War
I, Macron told fellow leaders they have a "huge responsibility" to
defeat modern forces that threaten a "legacy of peace" from the two
world wars of the past century.
"I know there are old demons coming back to the surface," the French president said. "They are ready to wreak chaos and death."
Macron did not refer specifically to Trump, who occasionally frowned during the speech.
Trump did not respond to Macron publicly.
During a speech later Sunday at a
World War I-era cemetery, Trump praised the French leader for hosting
the event he called "very beautiful" and "well done."
In
defending "America First," Trump has often said the United States needs
to address its own needs. air."
Read more: France -World War I commemoration: Macron rebukes nationalism at commemoration
October 25, 2018
Chemical Industry - weed killer - a small amount of poison won't harm, say manufacturers : Lists of Cereals, Breakfast Snacks Where Weed Killer Was Allegedly Found - by Maria Perez
A controversial herbicide has been found in more than two dozen popular
breakfast cereals, snack bars and oats, according to a report released
by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) on Wednesday.
Glyphosate was found in 26 out of the 28 products EWG tested, with levels “higher than what EWG scientists consider protective of children’s health,” according to the report. Glyphosate is known as the most widely used herbicide in the world, according to the report. More than 250 million pounds of glyphosate is sprayed on American crops, according to EWG.
“How many bowls of cereal and oatmeal have American kids have eaten that came with a dose of weed killer? That’s a question only General Mills, PepsiCo and other food companies can answer,” said EWG President Ken Cook in the report. “But if those companies would just switch to oats that aren’t sprayed with glyphosate, parents wouldn’t have to wonder if their kids’ breakfasts contained a chemical linked to cancer."
Quaker and General Mills have said their products are safe for consumption. In a statement to CNN, General Mills said the levels of glyphosate in the products are “extremely low.”
"The extremely low levels of pesticide residue cited in recent news reports is a tiny fraction of the amount the government allows," the company said in a statement to CNN. "Consumers are regularly bombarded with alarming headlines, but rarely have the time to weigh the information for themselves. We feel this is an important context that consumers should be aware of when considering this topic."
Note EU-Digest: When you read this statement it is if these companies are saying: "Don't worry a little poison can't be bad for you" ?
Here is a list of products that were tested and reportedly have Glyphosate in them:
Instant Oats:
Snack Bars:
Key manufacturers of this "herbicide" include Anhui Huaxing Chemical Industry Company, BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Jiangsu Good Harvest-Weien Agrochemical Company, Monsanto, Nantong Jiangshan Agrochemical & Chemicals Co., Nufarm Limited, SinoHarvest, Syngenta, and Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group Company.
Glyphosate was found in 26 out of the 28 products EWG tested, with levels “higher than what EWG scientists consider protective of children’s health,” according to the report. Glyphosate is known as the most widely used herbicide in the world, according to the report. More than 250 million pounds of glyphosate is sprayed on American crops, according to EWG.
“How many bowls of cereal and oatmeal have American kids have eaten that came with a dose of weed killer? That’s a question only General Mills, PepsiCo and other food companies can answer,” said EWG President Ken Cook in the report. “But if those companies would just switch to oats that aren’t sprayed with glyphosate, parents wouldn’t have to wonder if their kids’ breakfasts contained a chemical linked to cancer."
Quaker and General Mills have said their products are safe for consumption. In a statement to CNN, General Mills said the levels of glyphosate in the products are “extremely low.”
"The extremely low levels of pesticide residue cited in recent news reports is a tiny fraction of the amount the government allows," the company said in a statement to CNN. "Consumers are regularly bombarded with alarming headlines, but rarely have the time to weigh the information for themselves. We feel this is an important context that consumers should be aware of when considering this topic."
Note EU-Digest: When you read this statement it is if these companies are saying: "Don't worry a little poison can't be bad for you" ?
Here is a list of products that were tested and reportedly have Glyphosate in them:
Instant Oats:
- Quaker Simply Granola Oats, Honey & Almonds Instant Oats
- Quaker Instant Oatmeal Cinnamon & Spice Instant Oats
- Quaker Instant Oatmeal Apples & Cinnamon Instant Oats
- Quaker Real Medleys Super Grains Banana Walnut Overnight oats
- Quaker Overnight Oats Raisin Walnut & Honey Heaven
- Quaker Overnight Oats Unsweetened with Chia Seeds
- Quaker Oatmeal Squares Brown Sugar Oat
- Quaker Oatmeal Squares Honey Nut Oat
- Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
- Very Berry Cheerios
- Chocolate Cheerios
- Frosted Cheerios
- Fruity Cheerios
- Honey Nut Cheerios
- Cheerios Oat Crunch Cinnamon
Snack Bars:
- Quaker Chewy S’mores
- Quaker Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip
- Quaker Breakfast Squares Soft Baked Bars Peanut Butter
- Quaker Breakfast Flats Crispy Snack Bars Cranberry Almond
Key manufacturers of this "herbicide" include Anhui Huaxing Chemical Industry Company, BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Jiangsu Good Harvest-Weien Agrochemical Company, Monsanto, Nantong Jiangshan Agrochemical & Chemicals Co., Nufarm Limited, SinoHarvest, Syngenta, and Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group Company.
September 5, 2018
September 3, 2018
Britain - Brexit: Theresa May should start reading the Tea Leaves as 2.6 million Leave voters have abandoned support for Brexit since referendum, major new study finds - by Benjamin Kentish
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| The Brexit disaster |
If the huge number of Britons who have changed their mind had voted to stay in the EU in 2016, the referendum would have delivered a clear Remain verdict.
In a key finding that will particularly intensify pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to take a tougher stance against Brexit, the study found the overwhelming majority of those changing minds are Labour voters in seats the party currently holds.
It comes as Conservative divisions over Brexit deepened, with Theresa May attempting to slap down Boris Johnson after he wrote another article attacking her approach.
The Independent has launched its own campaign for a Final Say referendum, with almost three quarters of a million people having signed our petition demanding one so far.
Read more: 2.6 million Leave voters have abandoned support for Brexit since referendum, major new study finds | The Independent
August 27, 2018
EUROPEAN UNITY UNDER ATTACK: FAR RIGHT PLAYERS TEARING EUROPE APART
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August 22, 2018
EU Parliament: Guy Verhofstadt calls Donald Trump ‘head alligator’ of the swamp – by Paul Dallison
He added that Trump’s presidency, “one in which values and integrity do not seem to count, is detrimental to people’s faith in democracy.”
Read more: Guy Verhofstadt calls Donald Trump ‘head alligator’ of the swamp – POLITICO
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