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Showing posts with label Brussels. Show all posts
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Monday, July 27, 2026

EU Madness > EC insists that cultural suicide is the right thing to do

 

European Commission Blocks Attempt of Europeans

to Halt ‘Non-Western Migration’


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The European Commission has now become an enemy of Europe. It has refused to register the “Save Europe Act,” which is an attempt, supported so far by 580,000 citizens of Europe, to end migration from “non-Western countries” — which is meant, everyone understands, to prevent more Muslims from entering Europe. More on this shameful move can be found here: 


EU rejects anti-mass migration citizen initiative,

saying it goes against EU values

by Carl Deconinck, Brussels Signal, July 23, 2026:

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The European Commission has refused to register the “Save Europe Act”, a European Citizens’ Initiative calling for a moratorium on new immigration from non-Western countries and a fundamental reform of the EU’s migration and asylum system.


The initiative was launched by Austrian activist Martin Sellner and Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek. Its organisers say it has already gathered more than 580,000 signatures.

The Commission ruled that the initiative failed to meet the legal requirements for registration as a European Citizens’ Initiative.

It said the proposal’s call for a moratorium on immigration from “non-Western countries”, including for study and family reunification, and its reference to the “ethnic and cultural continuity” of Europe’s “native peoples” would amount to discrimination based on race or ethnic origin.

The Commission does not believe that Europeans have a right to defend their values, their culture, their civilization, from migrants — Muslims — who do not, and cannot possibly, share those values, that culture, that civilization. It describes the attempt to keep more Muslims out as “discrimination based on race or ethnic origin.” But that is wrong: Muslims are neither a “race” nor an “ethnicity.” Islam is an ideology, like Communism or Nazism, and Europeans want to prevent the demographic conquest of their countries by those who subscribe to that ideology.

The Commission also objected to the initiative’s claim that Europe was facing a “demographic exchange” caused by non-Western and non-European migrants.

Why does the Commission object? Is it because that claim of a “demographic exchange” is false, or is it because it is true? There are now 44 million Muslims in Europe. More than a million now enter Europe each year. And while European fertility rates are, at 1.6, far below the replacement level of 2.1, Muslims in Europe have a fertility rate of 2.9. Thus, the percentage of people in Europe who are Muslim inexorably rises.

Under EU rules, a European Citizens’ Initiative must comply with the EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Commission said the Save Europe Act was “manifestly contrary” to the values of the Union and therefore could not be registered.

The most important of values is self-preservation. It is this which the European Commission refuses to consider.

The decision means that the campaign cannot use the formal European Citizens’ Initiative mechanism, which allows citizens to ask the Commission to propose legislation after collecting at least one million signatures from at least seven EU member states….

There is now a popular uprising in Europe, a demand that the European Union call a halt to “non-Western migration.” 580,000 signatures have already been gathered to support this demand. The bureaucrats in Brussels have rejected the effort. They claim that such a policy would constitute discrimination based on “race” or “ethnicity.” They are wrong. Islam is not a race, nor an ethnicity, but an ideology inimical to Western values. Now, as one of the organizers of this effort, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, has made clear, they will continue to raise hell — “see you in court” — with ever-swelling numbers of signatories to their petition. Europeans want to preserve Europe from those who would transform it. What is wrong with that?

How can the EC justify allowing the astonishing growth of an ideology that would take Europe back to the 7th century? It's madness.

In the name of race and ethnicity, they insist on allowing an ideology that is incredibly racist and completely intolerant of anyone who doesn't keep the Muslim faith, and indeed, the right version of the Muslim faith.



Saturday, June 13, 2026

Politics In the EU > The two most powerful members of the EU are women and they're blondes. There should be a joke in there somewhere, but I can't find it.

 

EU members could revolt against Kallas’ powers – FT

The bloc’s foreign service is reportedly seen as “dysfunctional” under its current chief

Published 11 Jun, 2026 12:11 | Updated 11 Jun, 2026 14:07

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks to the press ahead of an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels.











EU member states could seek to curtail the powers of the bloc’s diplomatic service, headed by Kaja Kallas, amid concerns among officials that the body is “dysfunctional,” the Financial Times has reported.

The European External Action Service (EEAS) was launched in 2010 as a kind of collective foreign ministry for the EU, overseeing international relations, aid programs, and intelligence gathering and analysis.

France has outlined possible reforms of the EEAS for consideration by member states, the FT reported on Thursday.

One option would return some of the service’s functions to the European Commission and national governments, although this would require unanimous approval by member states. Another proposal, which supporters say could be implemented without changing EU treaties, would limit the autonomy of the EEAS chief and loosen her control over more than 140 missions the EU maintains worldwide.

“Capitals are annoyed and want an effective way for us to act in unison externally,” one of five officials cited by the FT said. “It is clear that [the EEAS] doesn’t work the way it should in today’s world. It is dysfunctional,” another said.

Commenting on the report, Russian presidential adviser Kirill Dmitriev said Kallas has “succeeded in annoying everyone.”

Kallas and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have reportedly been locked in a tug of war over who should steer EU foreign policy. The former German defense minister is said to have outmaneuvered the former Estonian prime minister in the bureaucratic battle, taking direct control in key geographic areas and pushing for a new intelligence body that would answer directly to her office.

Kallas accused of going off-script on China

Kallas has on several occasions made remarks on sensitive issues, including relations with China, that appeared to reflect her own views rather than the EU’s agreed position, while also advancing proposals some officials considered unwarranted, the FT said.

Last year, Kallas criticized the administration of US President Donald Trump for arguing that Ukraine could not defeat Russia militarily even with continued Western aid and sanctions. “If you’re saying that we collectively are not able to really pressure Russia…, then how do you say that you’re able to take on China?” she asked. The moderator at the Hudson Institute event joked that the remark would be removed from the recording.

In May, Kallas denounced Beijing for what she described as “coercive economic practices” and claimed that the West’s inability to compete with Chinese companies was a “disease.” She compared government subsidies to increasing a cancer patient’s morphine dosage and urged retaliatory measures – chemotherapy in her metaphor.

EU and China at economic loggerheads

French President Emmanuel Macron made a state visit to China last December, followed by a similar trip by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in February. The leaders of the EU’s two largest economies brought with them major industrial figures, who signed significant deals with Chinese counterparts.

The EU’s stated policy toward China is to “de-risk” economic ties. However, the turbulence that the Trump administration has added to the global economy, along with the doubts it has raised over NATO protections, has pushed European nations to reassess their positions.

In a separate story on Thursday, the FT reported that Beijing has canceled two senior meetings with EU officials on trade issues scheduled for this month. The British newspaper said the gestures were part of Chinese deterrence against measures proposed by Brussels to reduce trade deficit. The gap widened to €1 billion ($1.15 billion) a day in 2025, with EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic calling it “unsustainable.”

EU chose Kallas as a Russia hawk

Kallas stepped down as Estonian prime minister after her popularity at home sank, partly due to a scandal involving her husband’s business interests in Russia. She joined von der Leyen’s second commission in December 2024 as an official who “eats Russians for breakfast,” as some media outlets put it.

The EU is currently debating who should represent the bloc in any direct negotiations with Russia. When asked last month whether she wanted the role, Kallas said the debate itself was a Russian “trap,” adding that her job description is “in the treaties.”

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Von der Leyen suffers new ‘Pfizergate’ judgement


The European Commission was wrong to make its Covid vaccine deals in secret, according to the opinion from the EU’s highest court

Published 11 Jun, 2026 18:46 | Updated 12 Jun, 2026 09:10

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a press statement in Brussels, Belgium, June 9, 2026











The European Commission should have revealed the details of its Covid-19 vaccine contracts with drugmakers to the public, an adviser to the EU’s highest court has declared. Among the contracts was a deal with Pfizer that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen negotiated via text message.

In an opinion published on Thursday, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos argued that the commission’s insistence on secrecy made it impossible to know whether its vaccine negotiators had any conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical companies that they procured the shots from.

The commission signed six advance purchase agreements with pharmaceutical companies – including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Moderna – between 2020 and 2021. The contracts were worth a combined €71 billion ($82 billion).

When Green MEPs and more than 3,000 members of the public demanded information about the negotiation process, the commission redacted the names of all of its negotiators and many of the contract clauses. The commission’s lawyers have argued that these redactions were made to protect the negotiators from “conspiracy theorists.”

Conspiracy theorists have a habit of leaking the truth which would be disastrous for the crooked negotiators.

The commission lost a legal battle to keep these details secret in 2024, but appealed the decision up to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Rantos’ opinion is not legally binding, but will inform the court’s final ruling.

Last year, the court ruled against von der Leyen in the ‘Pfizergate’ case, which centered around her negotiations with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. In 2021, von der Leyen told the New York Times that she had been negotiating a €35 billion deal for 900 million Covid vaccine doses with Bourla via sms messages.

The newspaper sued for access to the messages, arguing that von der Leyen could have used sms messaging to bypass EU transparency laws. The commission claimed that the messages had been lost, but the court ruled last May that the EU’s executive body failed to provide “credible explanations enabling the public and the Court to understand why those documents cannot be found.”

Von der Leyen survived a no-confidence vote initiated by right-wing parties in the European Parliament over the scandal last July.

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Monday, April 20, 2026

The Islamization of Europe > Muslims want Sharia in Germany and Germans to leave; Drug gangs, migrants, terrorism in Brussels

 Muslims want Sharia in Germany and Germans to leave


Translated from Chinese
Yesterday: Illegal Muslim refugees and terrorists in Germany attacked German police, demanding that the German government implement Sharia law and that Germany's native residents leave. The German police are already exhausted, and perhaps the army will have to be deployed, because this concerns the survival of the German nation and people!
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String of suspected gang-related blasts rocks Brussels suburb


The mayor of Saint-Gilles has requested reinforcements to combat “terrorism”

Published 19 Apr, 2026 04:20 | Updated 19 Apr, 2026 05:51

String of suspected gang-related blasts rocks Brussels suburb










The mayor of a Brussels suburb has denounced what he described as “terrorism” and called for reinforcements after a series of explosions linked to gang violence struck the EU capital this week.

At least five blasts have been reported in recent days in Saint-Gilles, a vibrant Brussels district that is also home to many EU officials.

The latest incident occurred shortly after midnight on Saturday outside a shisha bar on Rue Theodore Verhaegen near Barriere de Saint-Gilles. The explosion damaged the venue and nearby homes, and shattered windows at a school across the street. No injuries were reported.

Saint-Gilles Mayor Jean Spinette described the incidents as a “war between rival drug families,” calling on Interior Minister Bernard Quintin to provide immediate reinforcements to the Brussels prosecutor’s office and the federal judicial police to ensure residents’ safety at night.

“This is escalating uncontrollably, with shootings and explosions occurring back-to-back. It’s a real scourge for the municipality,” he said, as quoted by local media. He called the attack on the school “shocking,” describing the situation as “serious organized crime” driven by rival groups competing for control of territory.

“Spreading fear to gain territory – that’s called terrorism,” he added.

Brussels has been described as one of Europe’s most affected capitals for gun-related violence, with 96 firearms incidents recorded in 2025. In the first three months of 2026, at least 22 shootings were reported, resulting in multiple injuries and one death.

Public prosecutor Julien Moinil previously warned that “every Brussels resident and every citizen can be hit by a stray bullet,” calling for a coordinated crackdown on criminal networks. The federal authorities have proposed additional measures, including increased patrols and expanded surveillance in areas linked to drug activity.

Brussels hosts many EU institutions, including the headquarters of the European Commission, and is widely regarded as the bloc’s de facto political capital. NATO headquarters is also located in the city.

Muslims constitute about 20% of the population of Brussels, but a much higher percentage of the criminal cohort.