Das Weiße Haus gab eine ganze Stellungnahme heraus, die den Besuch von Dennis Rodham in Nordkorea verurteilte und auch Nordkorea dafür, dass es ihm erlaubte, den Besuch zu machen, und behauptete steif und fest, dass „Prominenten-Sportereignisse“ dieser Art inakzeptabel sind.

(19.02.) The first debate held yesterday (18 February) in the European Parliament since EU leaders agreed a budget for 2014-2020 showed widespread opposition to the deal from major political groups. Only the European Conservatives and Reformists group hailed the deal, which needs approval of the Parliament.

EU parliament president, German Socialist Martin Schultz, has suggested there may be a secret ballot on the budget. This would make it impossible to see how each deputy voted. (…)
Secret ballots in this context are unacceptable. If you are elected by the people to a political assembly, then the people must be able to hold you accountable.

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for five years, the parliamentarian live in Eden, in a separate world without obligations, without ties, without having to respect their commitments, commitments that anyway they have freely signed up to so as to get elected. No one has pointed a pistol at their head to make them put their names down in the electoral lists. The circumvention of voters is so common that it has become taken for granted, legitimate, normal. It no longer is considered a scandal. The parliamentarian is allowed the preventive freedom to lie. He can lie to those who voted for him, to his employers, without any consequences,

instead of being kicked out of the Lower House or the Senate.

„The Monti government has been the most political of the post-war period,“ he said. „Before no one had ever questioned Article 18 (of the 1970 worker statute) that defends workers“.

(04.03.) Newly elected lawmakers for Beppe Grillo‘s 5-Star Movement (M5S) held their first meeting in a Rome hotel on Monday after rocking Italy‘s political establishment with a stunning performance in last week‘s general election.

Italian President Napolitano is exploring the creation of a second technocrat government.

President Giorgio Napolitano is considering appointing a new technocrat government led by a non-politician as one way out of Italy‘s political stalemate, sources said on Tuesday.

Der Emir von Katar, Hamad bin Jaliga al Thani, hat am Montag insgesamt sechs griechischen Inseln im Ionischen Meer zum Preis von 8,5 Millionen Euro gekauft, berichtet die britische Zeitung „The Guardian“.

Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stourrnaras picked up German tabloid BILD to recount the dull lifestyle he had to live after he was appointed to the most crucial ministerial post of the debt-ridden country. Bild reporter visited Stournaras in his office in Athens and started right away with a personal question:

Last Saturday, Qahtani said, Saudi King Abdullah ratified the death sentences and sent them to Abha. Authorities set Tuesday for the executions. They also determined the methods.

The main defendant, Sarhan al-Mashayeh, will be crucified for three days. The others will face firing squads.

The seven men were arrested in early 2006. During their interrogation at the Criminal Investigation Department in Abha, they have since said they were severely beaten, denied food and water, deprived of sleep, forced to remain standing for 24 hours and then forced to sign “confessions”. They were detained for three and a half years in Abha General Prison before they went on trial.

The Abha General Court found all seven guilty of armed robbery in August 2009 and sentenced them to death. Their trial lasted only a few hours, and they were denied any legal representation or appeal. Security officers who were present at the trial warned them that if they withdrew their “confessions” they would be tortured again, and members of their families, including their mothers, would be brought to prison and tortured in front of them.

The men, ages 20 to 24, „were severely beaten, denied food and water, deprived of sleep, forced to remain standing for 24 hours and then forced to sign ‚confessions,“ Amnesty International said.

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People in the crowd sang ‚Grandola,‘ a protest song from the 1974 ‚Carnation Revolution‘ that ousted the dictatorship established by Antonio Salazar, and brought an end to military rule in the country.

Eigentlich kann man solche Ereignisse nicht einfach ignorieren, es sei denn man gehört zur einschlägigen Konzernpresse.

Unions representing Greek farmers from around the country will be gathering in central Athens on Tuesday, starting at 1 p.m. at Vathy Square before marching to Parliament as daily Kathimerini reports.

In Berlin mehren sich die Plädoyers für eine stärkere deutsche Beteiligung am Krieg in Syrien.

Hammond will say that 11,000 soldiers will leave Germany by 2016, and the remaining 4,500 will come home in 2019