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news EUOmbudsmen Conference 2022: Digital Gaps affect People's Trust threaten EF Project on EU Future ?
Thursday, 28 April 2022 | ACM
EUOmbudsmen Conference 2022: Digital Gaps affect People's Trust threaten EF Project on EU Future ? *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- Invited to the Hybrid Annual Video-Conference of EU Ombudsmen's Network for the Year 2022, "Eurofora" (who has covered for the Press such...
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news French Election : Black Out on Virus, but Obligation for Fake 'Vaccines" Challenged
Thursday, 21 April 2022 | ACM
French Election : Black Out on Virus, but Obligation for Fake 'Vaccines   *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/-    Astonishingly, the Most Important Topical Issue Nowadays : that of the way to face èhe Deadly Virus' Pandemic, was kept ptacticaly Out of the Public...
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news Both French Presidential Candidates point at "Humanism" in crucial times...
Thursday, 14 April 2022 | ACM
Both French Presidential Candidates point at *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Starting by a Europe related speech in Strasbourg, immediately followed by another on Foreign Policy/Diplomacy in general from Paris, Both 2 Finalist Presidential...
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news France : Zemmour = Outsider may become Game Changer in Presidential + Parliamentary Elections 2022
Saturday, 09 April 2022 | ACM
France : Zemmour = Outsider may become Game Changer in Presidential + Parliamentary Elections 2022   *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Acccording  to UnExpected developments, Outsider,  popular former Anti-Establishment Journalist Eric Zemmour, may become a Game Changer in the forthcoming...
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news PACE President Cox skips Turkey Worst (Occupation) case compared to Russia (DeMilitarisation) query
Monday, 14 March 2022 | ACM
PACE President Cox skips  Turkey Worst (Occupation) case compared to Russia (DeMilitarisation) query  ☆ Strasbourg/CoE PressConference/Angelo.Marcopolo/- An hybrid CoE Video-Press Conference by PACE's  New President  Tiny Cox (2022-2024), where "Eurofora" was Invited, surprisingly...
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news Macron - Russia (after EU Summit) : Leave Door Open !
Friday, 25 February 2022 | ACM
Macron - Russia (after EU Summit) : Leave Door Open     ! *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/(Partly Updated)/- While it's obviously Hard Times for those who believe in De Gaule's Historic "Great Europe", nevertheless, the current tension in the...
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news Sur les Ecoles at Creches en France (News Viewpoint)
Thursday, 27 January 2022 | ACM
Sur les Ecoles at Creches en France (News Viewpoint)   *Strasbourg/Béata Hildebrand/- [ACM: News Viewpints zxpress their Writer's Opinions, and Not always that of "Eurofora". Beata Hildebrand, a Franco-Polish Lady, is Member of CoE's...
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news "Eurofora" Recess for Christmas 2021 and New Year 2022
Thursday, 23 December 2021 | ACM
  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- "Eurofora" is in Recess for Christmas and the New Year, from 23 December 2021 to 9 January 2022, (Except eventual Urgent Issues). Human Life and Dignity...
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news EUParliament vicePresident Charanzova to EF on Digital Act+Press Freedom/Classic Vaccine: "Not Easy"
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 | ACM
EUParliament vicePresident Charanzova to EF on Digital Act+Press Freedom/Classic Vaccine:  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- The "Hot" Topical Issue of EU's Digital Act against DisInformation, and respect of ECHR's well Established case-law on Democratic Freedom of...
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news "EF"'s Reply to CoFoE's Question on What the EU would do with Russia in a De Gaulle's "Great Europe"
Saturday, 04 December 2021 | ACM
*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- When PanEuropean, 47 Member States' strong, CoE's Assembly, Lifted Sanctions against Russia on 2019, (Rectifying a Blunder due to 2014 Anti-European...
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news VGE EUParliament Event Topical on EUFuture for Inviting EF, Portugal President v. Forced "Vaccine" +
Thursday, 02 December 2021 | ACM
VGE EUParliament Event Topical on EUFuture for Inviting EF, Portugal President v. Forced      ^Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- Valery Giscard d'Eatain's Ceremony at EU Parliament today, with several Heads of State and ZU Leadership; was more Topical than expected,...
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news + De Gaule's "Great Europe", including Russia, should be ReVived !
Saturday, 27 November 2021 | ACM
+ De Gaule's  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- As CoFoE's 4rth Panel of Citizens, on "EU in the World" is unfolding these Days for a 2nd Time (26-28/11/2021), "Eurofora" firmly believes...
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news "Eurofora" published 3 Projects at EU's platform for Europe's Future
Saturday, 20 November 2021 | ACM
     *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Until Now, in Total, "Eurofora" has proposed 3 different concrete Ideas, Published at the Web Platfom of EU's Conference on Europe's Future: 2 on...
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news Macron: New Model with Big Decisions +Historic Investments at EU Presidency 2022: Believe in France!
Tuesday, 09 November 2021 | ACM
Macron: New Model with Big Decisions +Historic Investments at EU Presidency 2022: Believe in France! *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron, bravely seized the opportunity of another Crucial Juncture in the Hard Fight against the Deadly Pandemic Virus, where Europe...
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news Turko-USA BioNTech/Pfizer Fake "Vaccine" Spreads Infections + Deaths in Australia !
Wednesday, 27 October 2021 | ACM
Turko-USA BioNTech/Pfizer Fake  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- For the 1st Time so Obvious, the Failure of the Turko-USA Fake "Vaccine" (in Fact a Controversial Novel Tool of m-RNA, Affecting the Human Genome, Contrary...
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news CFE Council/Commission/Parliament Chairs on EF's Dialogue with Citizens on Acts: Debate or Muzzle ?
Saturday, 23 October 2021 | ACM
CFE Council/Commission/Parliament Chairs on EF's Dialogue with Citizens on Acts: Debate or Muzzle ? *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- For the 1st Time reacting All Together to EU Citizens' initial Proposals, in the Conference on Europe's Future, the 3 Co-Chairs, Top ...
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news EU Top Official on "EF" proposal for European Green SmartPhone: -"Great Idea" ?!
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 | ACM
EU Top Official on *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- As the forthcoming EU Heads of State/Government's Summit of 21-22 October is due to Deal also with "Digital Transformation", including "Global...
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news EU Top Official to "EF": BRX Summit can tackle Both Turkish WarShips Bullying + Energy Prices' boom
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 | ACM
EU Top Official to *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- The forthcoming EU Heads of State/Government Summit on 21-22 October 2021 in Brussels can Tackle Both Issues of Turkish WarShips Bullying against "East-Med"...
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news PanEuropa Germany Head Posselt +to EF: Europe's Freedom Idea, Basis of the World order ?
Sunday, 17 October 2021 | ACM
PanEuropa Germany Head Posselt +to EF: Europe's Freedom Idea, Basis of the World order ?  -*- (NewsViews express the Ideas of their Writer, and not always of "Eurofora". But We Thank "PanEuropa Germany"'s President, CSU Euro-Politician, and Experienced former...
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news CFE Panel 4: EUCom VP Suica Leans towards EF Project (Dialogue Citizens-Politicians Before Decisions
Friday, 15 October 2021 | ACM
CFE Panel 4: EUCom VP Suica Leans towards EF Project (Dialogue Citizens-Politicians Before Decisions *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- Just After Welcoming Citizens Participants at the 4rth and Last Panel (on "Europe in the World") Before an Important Plenary due to Start...
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news Macron's Top MEPs to EF: Need for New Drugs+Vaccines against Virus Not Denied (as EU seeks to Move)
Monday, 11 October 2021 | ACM
Macron's Top MEPs to EF: Need for New Drugs+Vaccines against Virus Not Denied (as EU seeks to Move) *Strasbourg/Press Club/Eurofora/- As Europe is the Only Continent in the World where Virus' Infections Grow and even Head towards Record-High levels, (UPDATED), while the Few Controversial Fake...
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news Czechs Vote pro-Babis' Majority, But Late Count +Health Issue try to Undermine it...
Sunday, 10 October 2021 | ACM
Czechs Vote pro-Babis' Majority, But Late Count +Health Issue try to Undermine it... *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- In what might probably be marked as a Record-High Bad Faith in Establishment's Medias, Vote Counting, and Strange Health Care services, Prague, at Europe's...
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news ECHR Raises Critical Questions v. Compulsory Controversial Vaccines against Human Rights in France+
Thursday, 07 October 2021 | ACM
ECHR Raises Critical Questions v. Compulsory Controversial Vaccines against Human Rights in France+ *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- With an Important Series of Moves, which may Affect, Directly several European States, (but Also, indirectly, USA and Other Countries in the World, holding a Special...
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news Turkey Bullies EastMed Pipeline near Cyprus as EUParliament+Summit debate "explosive" Energy Prices
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 | ACM
Turkey Bullies EastMed Pipeline near Cyprus as EUParliament+Summit debate  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Turkey repeatedly Bullied with Warships, and Threatened even with More Negative Measures in the Comming Days, a European peaceful Ship preparing for an EU Natural...
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news German People Vote Majority for anOther Right !
Monday, 27 September 2021 | ACM
German People Vote Majority for anOther Right ! *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Contrary to some False Appearances, pushed by a Misleading part of Establishment's Medias nowadays, Facts prove that the German People Never Voted for any...
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news CFE/Democracy Panel/Day 3: Ambassador for CFE Plenary to EF: Show All EU Citizens' views !
Sunday, 26 September 2021 | ACM
CFE/Democracy Panel/Day 3: Ambassador for CFE Plenary to EF: Show All EU Citizens' views ! *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- European Democracy reportedly being the Most Popular Issue in EU's Conference on Europe's Future, normaly, it Should Apply also to Citizens'...
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news CFE/Democracy Panel/Day 2: EU Expert to EF : Agenda Modified to ease Citizens' various input ?
Saturday, 25 September 2021 | ACM
CFE/Democracy Panel/Day 2: EU Expert to EF : Agenda Modified to ease Citizens' various input ? *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- An important in real Practice  Question, Earlier Raised by "Eurofora" to Organizers of EU's landmark "Conference on Europe's...
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news CFE/Democracy Panel/Day 1: EU Chair Slovenia Minister to Press(+EF): For a Pluralist Debate
Friday, 24 September 2021 | ACM
CFE/Democracy Panel/Day 1: EU Chair Slovenia Minister to Press(+EF): For a Pluralist Debate  *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- KickStarting "the Most Popular" Citizens' Panel in the Coference on Europe's Future (CFE), as EU Parliament's Coordinator, Guy...
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news CFE/EcoSoc+Digit.Panel/Day-3: Citizens tell EF they can Debate+Change Agenda. Moves Start
Sunday, 19 September 2021 | ACM
CFE/EcoSoc+Digit.Panel/Day-3: Citizens tell EF they can Debate+Change Agenda. Moves Start   *Strasbourg/EUParliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- The 3rd and Concluding Day, of the 1st CoFoE Panel of Citizens, on Eco-Social and Digital Issues, this Sunday, left an UnExpected Feeling ...
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news CFE/EcoSoc+Digit.Panel/Day-2: Verhofstadt claims to EF that Citizens May Change Agenda
Saturday, 18 September 2021 | ACM
CFE/EcoSoc+Digit.Panel/Day-2: Verhofstadt claims to EF that Citizens May Change Agenda  *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- This 2nd Day, Saturday, during the 1st Citizens' Panel on Economy-Social/Culture-Education/and Digitalisation, was Focused mainly on a...
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news CFE/EcoSoc+Digit.Panel/Day-1: EF raises Question of Citizens' Freedom to Change Agenda
Friday, 17 September 2021 | ACM
CFE/EcoSoc+Digit.Panel/Day-1: EF raises Question of Citizens' Freedom to Change Agenda   *Strasbourg/EU Parliament/Angelo Marcopolo/- Right from the very Beginning of the 1st Attempt in Europe's History to actively Associate Citizens in Shaping its Future, (See:...
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news EUParliament Press Head Duch to EF: Citizens Start Preparing Historic Deal with States/MEPs/EUCom
Thursday, 16 September 2021 | ACM
EUParliament Press Head Duch to EF: Citizens Start Preparing Historic Deal with States/MEPs/EUCom   *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- The Beginning of an "UnPrecedented in History" process : "Citizens Negociating with States, MEPs, EUCommissioners", etc, will Start to be...
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news EU Parliament Votes for Inland WaterWays Transports, But Big Projects Evaporated ?...
Tuesday, 14 September 2021 | ACM
EU Parliament Votes for Inland WaterWays Transports, But Big Projects Evaporated ?... *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Europe is a unique Continent in the World, closely Surrounded by 4 Seas (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Baltic/Arctic, Black/Caspian, etc), abundantly Linked by Rivers...
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news Virus : Fake "Vaccines" Fail throughout the World ! (Making Oppression even More Arbitrary)...
Wednesday, 08 September 2021 | ACM
Virus : Fake  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Astonishingly Growing recent Facts around the World clearly show that those Few Fake "Vaccines" into which some EU Bureaucrats Traped the European People...
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news Strasburg Mayor Thanks EF on EU+CoE backed Project at CFE, eyes Strategy/Actors/Summits/EuroDistrict
Friday, 03 September 2021 | ACM
Strasburg Mayor Thanks EF on EU+CoE backed Project at CFE, eyes Strategy/Actors/Summits/EuroDistrict  *Strasbourg/Congress' Palace/Angelo Marcopolo/- At the 2021 Inauguration Ceremony of Strasbourg's Euro-Fair, (the biggest Annual Economic and Socio-Political Event at EU's Franco-German...
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news EuroCorps' New Chief to EF: European Army Report on Afghanistan possible +Space/Missions/Enlargement
Thursday, 02 September 2021 | ACM
EuroCorps' New Chief to EF: European Army Report on Afghanistan possible +Space/Missions/Enlargement *Strasbourg/Pourtales Castle/Angelo Marcopolo/- "EuroCorps" New Chief (2021-2023), Lieutenant-General Peter Devogelaere, from Belgium, Replying to 2 "Eurofora"s Questions at the...
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news EU-Fair 2021 goes Green + eyes Hybrid Transition, says to Eurofora Strasbourg-Events' CEO Drici
Thursday, 26 August 2021 | ACM
EU-Fair 2021 goes Green + eyes Hybrid Transition, says to Eurofora Strasbourg-Events' CEO Drici *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Replying Today to "Eurofora" Questions at the Press Conference on the 2021 Euro-Fair, (3-13 September 2021), which Traditionaly marks the Start of a New...
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news Afghan asylum seekers Welcomed near EU Parliament in Strasbourg EU-Fair, Day of Kaboul Airport Bomb
Thursday, 26 August 2021 | ACM
Afghan asylum seekers Welcomed near EU Parliament in Strasbourg EU-Fair, Day of Kaboul Airport Bomb *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Only a Block away from EU Parliament's building in Strasbourg, a Group of Afghan asylum seekers has just Started to Arrive at a Surprizing Proximity to the 2021...
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news Classic Vaccines in Clinical Phase = absolute Majority. But None Authorized by the EU yet = ZERO !
Tuesday, 10 August 2021 | ACM
Classic Vaccines in Clinical Phase = absolute Majority. But None Authorized by the EU yet = ZERO ! *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Even if the absolute Majority among the 110 candidate COVID Vaccines which have Currently Reached up to a Clinical Phase (i.e. completed Final Trials type 3) throughout...
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news Only Fake "Vaccines" + "Pass" Oppressive Dogma Cracks Worldwide !
Saturday, 31 July 2021 | ACM
Only Fake *Srasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- The Latest "Dogma" of an Establishment, striving to Impose the Claim that Only a Few Fake "Vaccines", added to a Controversial "Pass" or...
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news EU Chair Slovenia Spokesman to EF: UNSC move V. Turkey abusing Cyprus=Big Topic=>Strong EU Reaction
Monday, 26 July 2021 | ACM
EU Chair Slovenia Spokesman to EF: UNSC move V. Turkey abusing Cyprus=Big Topic=>Strong EU Reaction *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/(UPDATED)- The Press Spokesperson of the Incoming EU Presidency by Slovenia (July - December 2021), Domen Petelin, speaking to "Eurofora" on the latest UN...
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news "Passe" ou ..."IMPASSE" Sanitaire ? +Le Monde à l'Envers: Pretextes Provoqués par eux-mêmes !
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 | ACM
  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/(+MIS A JOUR+)- Le Projet de Loi Controversé, sur lequel Vote Aujourd'hui l'Assemblée Nationale à Paris, Imposant en France un "Passe" soi-disant...
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news Hands Off Pope Francis ! 3rd Clash in a Row v. Christians' faith on BioEthical Values ?..
Thursday, 15 July 2021 | ACM
Hands Off Pope Francis ! 3rd Clash in a Row v. Christians' faith on BioEthical Values ?.. *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- For a 3rd Time in a Row, controversial Politicians (including Foreign Interferences, as from an USA's Establishment, etc) Clashed with Catholic Christians and other...
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news Summer Recess 2021 !
Sunday, 11 July 2021 | ACM
Summer Recess 2021 !  * Happy Summer Recess 2021 to all "Eurofora"s Readers ! (Despite Everything, Because of Everything, still going on around all of us)...  -*- "Eurofora" will Try to be on...
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news MEPs Vote Key Parts of EF Project on Citizens-Politicians Dialogue Before Decisions. Skip Essentials
Wednesday, 07 July 2021 | ACM
MEPs Vote Key Parts of EF Project on Citizens-Politicians Dialogue Before Decisions. Skip Essentials *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- EU Parliament's Votes this week in Strasbourg, Surprizingly Endorsed Key Parts of "Eurofora" co-Founder's 1981/1997/2006/2018 Ideas on Our Project for...
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news EUHead Slovenia PM Jansa: Nothing stops Dialogue as EU Changes =>Bridge Difference by Common Ground
Tuesday, 06 July 2021 | ACM
EUHead Slovenia PM Jansa:  Nothing stops Dialogue as EU Changes =>Bridge Difference by Common Ground  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- A Dynamic Plaidoyerie for Pluralist Dialogue in a Democratic Europe, between All Different Political Views, particularly via the Conference on Europe's Future, But...
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news Vatican Prime Minister Parolin to EF: BioEthics Fundamental part of Human Dignity at European level
Sunday, 04 July 2021 | ACM
Vatican Prime Minister Parolin to EF: BioEthics Fundamental part of Human Dignity at European level   *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Replying to an "Eurofora" Question at his Press Conference Today in Strasbourg, Vatican's Prime Minister, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Clearly Stressed the...
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news Maronite Patriarch Rai to EF: Lebanon's Roots+Mission can be ReBorn by its People+World Community
Sunday, 04 July 2021 | ACM
Maronite Patriarch Rai to EF: Lebanon's Roots+Mission can be ReBorn by its People+World Community  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/(Embargoed since 2/7/2021)- Replying to an "Eurofora" Question at a Video-Press Conference organized by "Oeuvre d' Orient" just after a Series of...
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news 3 Biggest+Most EULeaders for Russia Summit, But Polish+Baltic Forget History, von Leyen Mixes Data..
Friday, 25 June 2021 | ACM
3 Biggest+Most EULeaders for Russia Summit, But Polish+Baltic Forget History, von Leyen Mixes Data.. *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- An UnExpected OverNight Delay with abnormal Tension between EU Leaders Exceptionaly Cancelled EU Council's Scheduled Press-Conference on the Rich Agenda of the...
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news Merkel points at EF Query for Different Vaccines (Not Only Genetic Manip) that EMA didN't Clear yet
Friday, 25 June 2021 | ACM
Merkel points at EF Query for Different Vaccines (Not Only Genetic Manip) that EMA didN't Clear yet   *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- In a Surprizing but Interesting Move on a More Crucial Issue that it seems at First Sight, Experienced 17 Years German Chancelor Angie Merkel (2005-2021),...
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news After EU Parliament's Call to Drop Accession Nightmare, EU Summit eyes Cooperative Link with Turkey
Thursday, 24 June 2021 | ACM
After EU Parliament's Call to Drop Accession Nightmare, EU Summit eyes Cooperative Link with Turkey  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Just 1 Month After an Exceptional Quasi-Unanimity of MEPs Voted earlier, in EU Parliament on May, in favor of Droping Turkey's Controversial and UnPopular EU bid,...
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news EU Council Top Official: Turkey's demand for "2 States" in Cyprus is "No Option" for Europe
Wednesday, 23 June 2021 | ACM
EU Council Top Official: Turkey's demand for *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Speaking to "Eurofora" and Other Journalists Invited to participate in an EU Video-Press Briefing, at the Eve of a Crucial EU Heads of State/Government Summit...
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news EU Council Official to "EF" : For Authorising Different Vaccines, Whenever Conditions are met
Wednesday, 23 June 2021 | ACM
EU Council Official to  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- The EU Council seems Favorable to the Authorisation of More and Different Vaccines, if they meet the required Conditions, in order to Boost EU Citizens'...
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news Virus Pass: CoE Warns v. Discrimination/Coercion/Infection Risk (Doubtful Vaccines, Less Protection)
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 | ACM
Virus Pass: CoE Warns v. Discrimination/Coercion/Infection Risk (Doubtful Vaccines, Less Protection) *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/-  A Stern Warning Against Risks to massively Infect UnWarned innocent People by Jombies Lurring via False Appearances with a few Controversial "Vaccines" of...
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news French Regional Elections: Macron Warned against Controversial Bill on BioEthics (Risk for Humanity)
Sunday, 20 June 2021 | ACM
French Regional Elections: Macron Warned against Controversial Bill on BioEthics (Risk for Humanity)      *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Shortly Before the forthcoming Presidential Elections of 2022, the French People gave a Stern Warning to Emmanuel Macron at Today's Regional Election's...
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news EUParliament Defense Committee Chair Loiseau to EF: For EU Autonomy +S/E Med Energy (v. Turkey risk)
Saturday, 19 June 2021 | ACM
EUParliament Defense Committee Chair Loiseau to EF: For EU Autonomy +S/E Med Energy (v. Turkey risk) *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- The Strategic Issue of the required High-Tech means for EU's Autonomy in Defense, and the Topical Issue of  How to Protect South-Eastern Mediterranen Energy...
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news Eurofora's main Project Published at EU Conference on Europe's Future (on Day of 1st Plenary)
Saturday, 19 June 2021 | ACM
Eurofora's main Project Published at EU Conference on Europe's Future (on Day of 1st Plenary)  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- In view of the Forthcoming EU Reforms, a Brief but authoritative Summary of "Eurofora"'s main Project on EU Citizens - Politicians' Dialogue Before...
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news EUParliament Com Head Duch to EF on Conference on Europe's Future: Waiting for Citizens ! UEF Reacts
Friday, 18 June 2021 | ACM
EUParliament Com Head Duch to EF on Conference on Europe's Future: Waiting for Citizens ! UEF Reacts       *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- In fact, the 1st Plenary of EU's landmark Conference on Europe's Future, due to Start Tomorrow in Strasbourg, in scheduled to be withOut the Citizens...
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news PanEuropa German Head Posselt to EF+: Conference on EU's Future: No Mock Debate. EUState Core Issues
Friday, 18 June 2021 | ACM
PanEuropa German Head Posselt to EF+: Conference on EU's Future: No Mock Debate. EUState Core Issues *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- [NDLR: In a text Send to "Eurofora"+ by German Paneuropean Union's Head, Experienced former Long-Time MEP, Bernd Posselt, he mainly Urges EU's...
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news CoE Legal-Human Rights G.Director Giakoumopoulos to EF: New Definition of Journalism in Digital Era?
Friday, 11 June 2021 | ACM
CoE Legal-Human Rights G.Director Giakoumopoulos to EF: New Definition of Journalism in Digital Era?       *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Replying to a Question by "Eurofora" (which was Invited in the Video-Press Conference on the Conclusions of a key CoE's Ministerial Meeting on...
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news EU Parliament : Top MEPs Ask to Investigate EU's Action facing the Deadly Virus Pandemic Crisis
Thursday, 10 June 2021 | ACM
EU Parliament : Top MEPs Ask to Investigate EU's Action facing the Deadly Virus Pandemic Crisis *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Top MEPs asked, this Tuesday and Wednesday, to make an Enquiry on How the EU Faced the Deadly Virus Crisis.  EU initialy stood Far Away from that Virus, which had...
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news CoE: Deep Concern as Turkey Blocks Investigation on Murders of Isaak+Solomou since ECHR Condemnation
Wednesday, 09 June 2021 | ACM
CoE: Deep Concern as Turkey Blocks Investigation on Murders of Isaak+Solomou since ECHR Condemnation    *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- CoE s Highest body, its Committee of Ministers, expresssed, Today, its "Deep Concern" for Turkey's obvious reluctance, all these years to Find and...
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news BioEthique: Projet Loi depassé sur Fabrication Artificielle d'Enfants est Bombe contre l'Humanité !
Tuesday, 08 June 2021 | ACM
BioEthique: Projet Loi depassé sur Fabrication Artificielle d'Enfants est Bombe contre l'Humanité !  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- C'est incroyable comment les débats de l'establishment sur le très controversé Projet de Loi pour la BioEthique, (actuellement de rétour à l'Assemblée...
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news Passports to Hell ? Fake "Vaccines"= No Guarantee v. Infections Spread (Opposed to Classic Vaccines)
Monday, 24 May 2021 | ACM
Passports to Hell ? Fake *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- In Addition to CoE's Secretary General, Marija Buric's recent Warning against possible Human Rights Violations, (which might result to ECHR Condemnations,...
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news EU Parliament: Focus Against Turkey's controversial + unpopular EU bid, for Other Link
Wednesday, 19 May 2021 | ACM
EU Parliament: Focus Against Turkey's controversial + unpopular EU bid, for Other Link  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- For the 1st Time since long, MEPs were much More Opposed to Turkey's controversial and unpopular EU bid, asking to immediately Drop it, than to EU Funds for...
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news EU Ombudsman O'Reilly to "EF" a.o. Journalists : Transparency Problems Worsen during Virus Epidemic
Tuesday, 18 May 2021 | ACM
EU Ombudsman O'Reilly to  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Speaking to "Eurofora" and other Journalists Invited to her 2021 Annual Video-Press Conference, the European Defensor of Citizens, alias...
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news Macron launching the Conference on EU's Future: for a New European Legend ?
Sunday, 09 May 2021 | ACM
Macron launching the Conference on EU's Future:  for a New European Legend ? *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- "Succeed ... to Create New Legends" in Europe, particularly through "ambitious", key "Big ¨Projects" and "Big Dreams", at the...
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news Polls: 91% of Europeans for EF Project on EU-Citizens interaction before Deciding on their Future
Saturday, 08 May 2021 | ACM
Polls: 91% of Europeans for EF Project on EU-Citizens interaction before Deciding on their Future      *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- As it was Already Voted and Adopted by the EuroMetropole of Strasbourg Citizens' Assembly, on "Eurofora"s proposal, in the context of French...
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news Turkey pushes Secessionism in Europe+ via Cyprus, while Biden slams Russia +Ukraine skips Minsk Deal
Thursday, 29 April 2021 | ACM
Turkey pushes Secessionism in Europe+ via Cyprus, while Biden slams Russia +Ukraine skips Minsk Deal  *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- For the 1st Time so Bluntly, Turkey attempted to Block from the Start UNO's New Effort for an Agreement on Cyprus' ReUnification, these Days at Nearby Geneva,...
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news EUParliament Head Sassoli in PACE: Crucial Moment for Future of Europe Conference
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 | ACM
EUParliament Head Sassoli in PACE: Crucial Moment for Future of Europe Conference *Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Paradoxicaly, it's in the Oldest and Largest PanEuropean Organisation of the CoE, (aged 72 y.o. and Extending from Iceland and the UK up to Vladivostok with 47...
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news How Merkel will go down in History (Vaccines row included) ?
Tuesday, 20 April 2021 | ACM
How Merkel will go down in History (Vaccines row included) ? *Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- US Multinational Media  CNN's Interrogation, at the Eve of German Chancelor  Angie Merkel's, particularly Interesting Speech and Debate with CoE's MEPs,...
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  • Your right to stand for forests is under attack — again

    If it seems like we’ve been talking about lawsuits a lot lately, it’s because we have.

    Corporate bullies, helped by Donald Trump’s go-to law firm, have filed two massive lawsuits against Greenpeace in the last two years. They aim to silence us, but we are not alone. Many of our allies and other individual activists are fighting meritless lawsuits of their own. These Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are not about justice or corporations righting some kind of wrong, but about tying up our resources in hopes that we won’t be able to keep fighting for a green and peaceful future.

    Today, we filed a motion to dismiss one of these SLAPPs that should have already gone away for good.

    Resolute Forest Hearing in San Francisco 10/10/2017 © George Nikitin / Greenpeace

    Participants and activists appear outside a United States District Court - October, 2017

    Nearly two years ago, Resolute Forest Products — the largest logging company in Canada — filed a CAD$300 million Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act (RICO) lawsuit against a number of Greenpeace defendants. In case you haven’t heard of RICO, it’s a law designed to prosecute the mafia and stop organised crime (read: nothing to do with preventing peaceful activists from protecting forests).

    In response to this baseless lawsuit, thousands of you raised your voices to make it clear that forest defenders everywhere will not be intimidated by corporate bullies that aim to silence us to protect their profits. And we’ve seen important progress.

    Three months ago, a US judge threw out Resolute’s lawsuit in its entirety. Furthermore, the judge ordered Resolute to reimburse Greenpeace for our attorney fees under California’s anti-SLAPP law.

    But for Resolute, this case has never been about winning; it’s about stopping us from fighting for forests by sucking up precious time and money. The company showed this in November when it filed a repackaged version of its meritless lawsuit. Because of this, we are all back in this fight.

    Today, we filed a 40-page brief outlining why this “new” version of Resolute’s lawsuit is the same old story as the case that’s already been dismissed — and why it deserves the same fate.

    There is no reason to think this new version of this lawsuit will not die the same death it did originally, but it does mean that forest lovers can’t stop fighting now. Attacks on our right to speak up threaten so much more than just Greenpeace, they threaten countless groups fighting to make the world a better place — including your right to fight for the planet you love. That’s why there are more than 30 organisations gathering in Washington, DC today to fight back against SLAPPs together.

    Because each and every SLAPP threatens us all, we must fight each and every one together. Already, your voices have shown Resolute and companies everywhere that the movement for a green and peaceful future is stronger than corporate intimidation. Now it’s time to speak up again and bury this case once and for all — join the fight and stand up to SLAPPs today.

     Our voices are vital Germany © Fred Dott GreenpeaceGreenpeace activists in a forest near Werbellinsee in Brandenburg - April, 2017

    Amy Moas, PhD is a senior forest campaigner for Greenpeace USA

     



  • Sponsoring climate change

    It is that time again. Four years roll by and once more the greatest winter athletes in the world will come together to wow us on death-defying luge runs, courageous ski jumps or surprisingly mesmerising curling slides matches.

    Unfortunately, all is not well in this winter wonderland.

    In preparations for these games, many Olympians have been faced by changing slopes - forced to search the world for places with the right conditions for them to train.

    Meanwhile, a recent study by Dr. Daniel Scott from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, found that nine previous and future Winter Olympic cities may soon be too hot to host the games due to rising temperatures.

    The impacts of climate change, that once seemed so far away, are here. And they are only going to get worse if we continue down the path we are on.

    It does make you wonder then, why one of the biggest sponsors of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Samsung, is still stuck on dirty energy.

    Greenpeace UK activists give Samsung's flagship store in London a rebranding makeover 

    Since the 2010 Games, Samsung’s emissions, released from their vast, global supply chain, have risen by a whopping 55%. 

    Even more shockingly, right now Samsung uses a measly 1% renewable energy. Hardly a gold medal score, this is a laughably underwhelming achievement for a company that spouts out taglines such as “Do What You Can’t” and “Do Bigger Things” without a hint of hypocrisy.

    This is in stark contrast to the rest of the world.

    Even the Pyeongchang Olympic committee have been proactively communicating their own commitment to be powered by renewables. Six of the venues will run on renewable energy and they have set a target for zero emissions from the games.

    While the snow melts and people around the world realise we have no time to lose, Samsung’s CEOs continue to turn a deaf ear. This is not about Greenpeace, it is not about saving face or greenwashing. On the eve of the 2018 Winter Olympics, the world is facing an existential crisis. Never before have we needed action on a truly global scale from all corners to reduce emissions and transition to renewable energy as fast as possible.

    However, this is also an opportunity that will set aside the dinosaurs from the innovators. A moment that history will judge us for our actions (or lack of).

    Samsung’s CEOs are faced with an opportunity to change course and courageously go beyond business as usual to drastically reduce our emissions and half catastrophic climate change. Do what you can’t?

    Robin Perkins is Global Rethink IT Campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia



  • A tribute to Jon Castle

    James (Jon) Castle - 7 December 1950 to 12 January 2018

    Over four decades Captain Jon Castle navigated Greenpeace ships by the twin stars of ‘right and wrong’, defending the environment and promoting peace. Greenpeace chronicler, Rex Weyler, recounts a few of the stories that made up an extraordinary life.

    Captain Jon Castle onboard the MV SIRIUSCaptain Jon Castle onboard the MV Sirius, 1 May 1996

    James (Jon) Castle first opened his eyes virtually at sea. He was born 7 December 1950 in Cobo Bay on the Channel Island of Guernsey, UK. He grew up in a house known locally as Casa del Mare, the closest house on the island to the sea, the second son of Robert Breedlove Castle and Mary Constance Castle. 

    Young Jon Castle loved the sea and boats. He worked on De Ile de Serk, a cargo boat that supplied nearby Sark island, and he studied at the University of Southampton to become an officer in the Merchant Navy. 

    Jon became a beloved skipper of Greenpeace ships. He sailed on many campaigns and famously skippered two ships during Greenpeace’s action against Shell’s North Sea oil platform, Brent Spar. During his activist career, Jon spelt his name as "Castel" to avoid unwanted attention on his family.

    Right and wrong

    Jon had two personal obsessions: he loved books and world knowledge and was extremely well-read.  He also loved sacred sites and spent personal holidays walking to stone circles, standing stones, and holy wells.  

    As a young man, Jon became acquainted with the Quaker tradition, drawn by their dedication to peace, civil rights, and direct social action. In 1977, when Greenpeace purchased their first ship - the Aberdeen trawler renamed, the Rainbow Warrior - Jon signed on as first mate, working with skipper Peter Bouquet and activists Susi Newborn, Denise Bell and Pete Wilkinson.

    In 1978, Wilkinson and Castle learned of the British government dumping radioactive waste at sea in the deep ocean trench off the coast of Spain in the Sea of Biscay. In July, the Rainbow Warrior followed the British ship, Gem, south from the English coast, carrying a load of toxic, radioactive waste barrels. The now-famous confrontation during which the Gem crew dropped barrels onto a Greenpeace inflatable boat, ultimately changed maritime law and initiated a ban on toxic dumping at sea.

    After being arrested by Spanish authorities, Castle and Bouquet staged a dramatic escape from La Coruńa harbour at night, without running lights, and returned the Greenpeace ship to action. Crew member Simone Hollander recalls, as the ship entered Dublin harbour in 1978, Jon cheerfully insisting that the entire crew help clean the ship's bilges before going ashore, an action that not only built camaraderie among the crew, but showed a mariner's respect for the ship itself. In 1979, they brought the ship to Amsterdam and participated in the first Greenpeace International meeting.

    In 1980 Castle and the Rainbow Warrior crew confronted Norwegian and Spanish whaling ships, were again arrested by Spanish authorities, and brought into custody in the El Ferrol naval base.

    The Rainbow Warrior remained in custody for five months, as the Spanish government demanded 10 million pesetas to compensate the whaling company. On the night of November 8, 1980, the Rainbow Warrior, with Castle at the helm, quietly escaped the naval base, through the North Atlantic, and into port in Jersey.

    In 1995, Castle skippered the MV Greenpeace during the campaign against French nuclear testing in the Pacific and led a flotilla into New Zealand to replace the original Rainbow Warrior that French agents bombed in Auckland in 1985.

    Over the years, Castle became legendary for his maritime skills, courage, compassion, commitment, and for his incorruptible integrity. "Environmentalism: That does not mean a lot to me," he once said, "I am here because of what is right and wrong. Those words are good enough for me."

    Brent Spar   

    Action at Brent Spar Oil Rig in the North SeaAction at Brent Spar Oil Rig in the North Sea, 16 June 1995

    One of the most successful Greenpeace campaigns of all time began in the summer of 1995 when Shell Oil announced a plan to dump a floating oil storage tank, containing toxic petroleum residue, into the North Atlantic. Castle signed on as skipper of the Greenpeace vessel Moby Dick, out of Lerwick, Scotland. A month later, on 30 April 1995, Castle and other activists occupied the Brent Spar and called for a boycott of Shell service stations.

    When Shell security and British police sprayed the protesters with water cannons, images flooded across world media, demonstrations broke out across Europe, and on May 15, at the G7 summit, German chancellor Helmut Kohl publicly protested to British Prime Minister John Major. In June, 11 nations, at the Oslo and Paris Commission meetings, called for a moratorium on sea disposal of offshore installations.

    After three weeks, British police managed to evict Castle and the other occupiers and held them briefly in an Aberdeen jail. When Shell and the British government defied public sentiment and began towing the Spar to the disposal site, consumers boycotted Shell stations across Europe. Once released, Castle took charge of the chartered Greenpeace vessel Altair and continued to pursue the Brent Spar towards the dumping ground. Castle called on the master of another Greenpeace ship, fitted with a helideck, to alter course and rendezvous with him. Using a helicopter, protesters re-occupied the Spar and cut the wires to the detonators of scuppering charges.

    One of the occupiers, young recruit Eric Heijselaar, recalls: "One of the first people I met as I climbed on board was a red-haired giant of a man grinning broadly at us. My first thought was that he was a deckhand, or maybe the bosun. So I asked if he knew whether a cabin had been assigned to me yet. He gave me a lovely warm smile, and reassured me that, yes, a cabin had been arranged. At dinner I found out that he was Jon Castle, not a deckhand, not the bosun, but the captain. And what a captain!"

    With activists occupying the Spar once again, Castle and the crew kept up their pursuit when suddenly the Spar altered course, heading towards Norway. Shell had given up. The company announced that Brent Spar would be cleaned out and used as a foundation for a new ferry terminal. Three years later, in 1998, the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) passed a ban on dumping oil installations into the North Sea.

    "There was no question among the crew who had made this possible, who had caused this to happen," Heijselaar recalls. "It was Jon Castle. His quiet enthusiasm and the trust he put into people made this crew one of the best I ever saw. He always knew exactly what he wanted out of a campaign, how to gain momentum, and he always found the right words to explain his philosophies. He was that rare combination, both a mechanic and a mystic. And above all he was a very loving, kind human being."

    Moruroa

    After the Brent Spar campaign, Castle returned to the South Pacific on the Rainbow Warrior II, to obstruct a proposed French nuclear test in the Moruroa atoll. Expecting the French to occupy their ship, Castle and engineer, Luis Manuel Pinto da Costa, rigged the steering mechanism to be controlled from the crow's-nest. When French commandos boarded the ship, Castle stationed himself in the crow's-nest, cut away the access ladder and greased the mast so that the raiders would have difficulty arresting him.

    Eventually, the commandos cut a hole into the engine-room and severed cables controlling the engine, radio, and steering mechanism, making Castle's remote control system worthless. They towed the Rainbow Warrior II to the island of Hao, as three other protest vessels arrived. 

    Three thousand demonstrators gathered in the French port of Papeete, demanding that France abandon the tests. Oscar Temaru - leader of Tavini Huiraatira, an anti-nuclear, pro-independence party - who had been aboard the Rainbow Warrior II when it was raided, welcomed anti-testing supporters from Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Philippines, and American Samoa. Eventually, France ended their tests, and atmospheric nuclear testing in the world's oceans stopped once and for all.

    “Moral courage”

    Through these extraordinary missions, Jon Castle advocated "self-reflection" not only for individual activists, but for the organisation that he loved. Activists, Castle maintained, required "moral courage." He cautioned, "Don't seek approval. Someone has to be way out in front... illuminating territory in advance of the main body of thought."

    He opposed "corporatism" in activist organisations and urged Greenpeace to avoid becoming "over-centralised or compartmentalised."  He felt that activist decisions should emerge from the actions themselves, not in an office. We can't fight industrialism with "money, numbers, and high-tech alone," he once wrote in a personal manifesto. Organisations have to avoid traps of "self-perpetuation" and focus on the job "upsetting powerful forces, taking on multinationals and the military-industrial complex."

    He recalled that Greenpeace had become popular "because a gut message came through to the thirsty hearts of poor suffering people ... feeling the destruction around them."  Activists, Castle felt, required "freedom of expression, spontaneity [and] an integrated lifestyle."  An activist organisation should foster a "feeling of community" and exhibit "moral courage." Castle felt that social change activists had to "question the materialistic, consumerist lifestyle that drives energy overuse, the increasingly inequitable world economic tyranny that creates poverty and drives environmental degradation," and must maintain "honour, courage and the creative edge."

    Well loved hero

    Susi Newborn, who was there to welcome Jon aboard the Rainbow Warrior way back in 1977, and who gave the ship its name, wrote about her friend with whom she felt "welded at the heart: He was a Buddhist and a vegetarian and had an earring in his ear. He liked poetry and classical music and could be very dark, but also very funny. Once, I cut his hair as he downed a bottle or two of rum reciting The Second Coming by Yeats."

    Newborn recalls Castle insisting that women steer the ships in and out of port because, "they got it right, were naturals." She recalls a night at sea, Castle "lashed to the wheel facing one of the biggest storms of last century head on. I was flung about my cabin like a rag doll until I passed out. We never talked about the storm, as if too scared to summon up the behemoth we had encountered. A small handwritten note pinned somewhere in the mess, the sole acknowledgment of a skipper to his six-person crew: ‘Thank You.’” Others remember Castle as the Greenpeace captain that could regularly be found in the galley doing kitchen duty.

    In 2008, with the small yacht Musichana, Castle and Pete Bouquet staged a two-man invasion of Diego Garcia island to protest the American bomber base there and the UK's refusal to allow evicted Chagos Islanders to return to their homes. They anchored in the lagoon and radioed the British Indian Ocean Territories officials on the island to tell them they and the US Air Force were acting in breach of international law and United Nations resolutions. When arrested, Castle politely lectured his captors on their immoral and illegal conduct.

    In one of his final actions, as he battled with his failing health, Castle helped friends in Scotland operate a soup kitchen, quietly prepping food and washing up behind the scenes.  


    Upon hearing of his passing, Greenpeace ships around the world - the Arctic Sunrise, the Esperanza, and the Rainbow Warrior - flew their flags at half mast.

    Jon is fondly remembered by his brother David, ex-wife Caroline, their son, Morgan Castle, born in 1982, and their daughter, Eowyn Castle, born in 1984. Morgan has a daughter of eight months Flora, and and Eowyn has a daughter, Rose, who is 2.   



  • We don't just need electric cars, we need fewer cars

    Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown. In countries like the UK, France, Italy and Germany there are now around 5 vehicles for every 10 people. In the USA, Australia and New Zealand, the number is higher still. 

    But, after a century of the automobile playing a central part in our lives, we’re starting to see a shift toward alternative forms of transport. If this trend continues, the car’s domination of global transport could soon come to a spluttering end.

    Cars in BeijingTraffic jam in Beijing

    Hidden cost of cars

    With the cost of electric vehicles set to plummet over the next decade, many car firms now admit that the future is an electric one. But will this be enough? Shouldn’t we also be asking ourselves if we need so many cars in the first place?

    If we could flick a switch and turn every fossil fuelled car into an electric one, lungs across the planet would breathe a sigh of relief as toxic emissions dropped (as long as the electricity used was from clean energy sources).

    But this wouldn’t address the problem of just how wasteful a car dominated transport system is. 

    In 2016, more than 72 million new cars hit the road. Manufacturing such a giant quantity of vehicles year on year uses vast quantities of steel, aluminium, copper, glass, rubber, and other raw materials.

    It’s a great environmental cost, considering the majority of these vehicles sit idle 95% of the time.

    Parked cars take up a vast amount of space, too. In urban areas in Los Angeles county, an estimated 14% of land – 200 square miles – is dedicated to parking.

    Changing attitudes

    Though progress is often slow, city planners and politicians are gradually waking up to the fact that when cities offer safe and affordable alternatives to cars, we start to travel differently.

    Cyclists in Copenhagen Cyclists in Copenhagen 

    More and more young people are choosing bicycles, buses and trains over owning a car out of the sheer cost. In Berlin, it’s public transport, not cars, which is the coolest way of getting around

    In Copenhagen, a city that has a long held reputation for being bike-friendly, a whopping 62% of people choose to cycle their commute.

    In the French city of Lyon, the number of cars entering the city has fallen by 20% compared to just a decade ago. As the city’s network of bike hire stations continues to grow, town planners are hoping for a further 20% decline.

    In London, where cycle super-highways are becoming popular, the share of journeys made by car has fallen by a quarter since 1990

    Car free days are rising in popularity in many of the world’s largest cities, giving people a taste of what it’s like to live with less noise, traffic and pollution. Bogota was one of the first cities to introduce a car free day, and it’s now become so popular that it’s been extended to a full week.

    Our vision

    Though the rise of electric cars should be celebrated, a truly sustainable transport system isn’t just about ditching fossil fuel vehicles.

    It’s about building more cycle lanes, and supporting schemes to get people on bikes in the first place. It’s about constructing roads which encourage a more diverse range of travel - cycling, electric scooters and cargo bikes - instead of so heavily favouring cars. It’s about mass transport that runs on clean energy and is affordable and easy for everyone to use. And it’s about all of us - citizens, politicians, and businesses - playing a part in making it happen.

    To coincide with the World Economic Forum taking place in Davos this week, Greenpeace has published Freedom to Breathe: Rethinking Urban Transport, a report that lays out our vision for the future of transport.

    Richard Casson is a campaigner for Greenpeace UK



  • Diving to the Antarctic sea floor is a scientist’s dream come true

    Most people would be surprised about how many species of cold-water corals and amazing sponges you’d find on the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean. Even as the scientist who has identified three quarters of the registered seafloor communities designated for special protection in the Antarctic, I’ve never seen them myself either!

    That is, I’ve never seen them in their natural environment before. Until now.

    Prepping the submarineGetting ready to dive in the submarine, 19 Jan 2018

    The seabed of this truly special place is home to corals and other animals that create 3D structures, providing shelter for fish and habitat for countless other organisms. They are an indispensable element in a complex ecosystem which feeds the Antarctic Ocean and all the other larger and more well-known species in it like penguins, seals and whales.

    Image of corals under the AntarcticSubmarine image of the seabed in the Antarctic, 23 January 2018

    The reason why right now I’m more excited than I’ve ever been in my 25 years as an Antarctic biologist is that, this time, I get to go to the bottom of the sea myself! Having done lots of expedition-based research into the depths of this unique ocean, now I can see first-hand what I have been studying for so many years.

    Usually, this type of scientific research is hard labour; digging through the large amount of bycatch caught in trawl nets and the time-consuming job of sorting it into taxonomic groups for analysis. But the destruction that this method causes has always disturbed me. But here we are, gently gliding by in a two-person submarine, taking photographic evidence and collecting a few specimens that might even be new species.

    Diving in the submarineDown we go! 

    I became pretty obsessed with the marine invertebrate life of the Antarctic region at quite a young age. Since then, I’ve encountered and studied some truly impressive seabed communities in the Antarctic and now I’m venturing out to locate additional areas that are in need of special protection.

    In a really meaningful way, our exploration of the bottom of the sea will help determine specific areas that should be a priority for protection from an expanding commercial fishing fleet, which jeopardises the wellbeing of one of the world's last pristine marine ecosystems; an ocean that connects all oceans.

    The evidence of any ‘Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems’ that we encounter on this expedition will be submitted to the Commission for the Antarctic Ocean. It is our hope that registering these ecosystems will support and strengthen the submitted proposal for what will be the largest protected marine area in the world.

    Antarctic feather starAntarctic feather star found at approximately 300 meters depth at Kinnes Cove in the Antarctic Sound, 23 January 2018

    I am eager to see these marine protected area proposals develop and mature and be passed by the Commission for the Antarctic Ocean. In this endeavor, the objectives of Greenpeace and I align, and I feel privileged to collaborate with them on this project.

    Hopefully my dream as a scientist coming true just now - going to the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean - will help achieve an even bigger dream: to see it protected!

    Dr. Susanne Lockhart is an Antarctic biologist with the California Academy of Sciences, currently aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in the Antarctic Ocean.



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EuroCorps, aged 15, may graduate in 2009, boosted by Strasbourg's Human Rights/Reconciliation symbols and fresh political will

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 Popular : EuroCorps' chief, General Pittarch, and Strasbourg's Mayor Ries, speak to the People, downtown.

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* EuroCorps, EU defence's etat major, which has just celebrated 15 years of age (1993 - 2008), is young enough to feel enthousiasm for missions to guarantee Human Rights, Peace and reconcilation : Strasbourg's Historic Symbols, but also maturing fast, (particularly under the current French EU Presidency), in order to prepare potentialy important developments in 2009 :

- "EUROCORPS" is a "unique tool" for "a Modern Europe", jointly managed by participating Nations without anyone deciding for others", to "support their efforts to promote Reconciliation, Peace and Human Rights' Values, which identify today's European ideal, with its Symbol-City : Strasbourg", stressed its Chief, Spanish General Pedro PITARCH, in a popular ceremony for the 15th Anniversary of the European Army Corps, at its Headquarters.

- "Today, we are ready and able to fullfil any Peace-keeping Mission may be decided by the Political leadership, since we can deploy up to 60.000 soldiers and/or other agents, mainly in land, but in coordination with Sea and Air operarions", (even to build vital Infrastructures, demining, keep public order, facilitate Elections, etc), said to EuroFora EUROCORPS' Spokesman and Press Director, Colonel Raul SUEVOS.

- "If there is an Agreement with the framework Nations, EUROCORPS could certainly contribute to guarantee manifold aspects of Peace setllements", told us recently General PITARCH.

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EuroCorps framework Nations' flags in Strasbourg's central square, on 2008, under the eyes of Napoleon's general KLEBER, famous for its Egypt campain, (reminded by German chancelor Merkel at Berlin's March 2007 EU Summit in a symbolic 1799 gift to the French President)..
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EU Parliament asked, Summer 2008 in Strasbourg, " to place Eurocorps as a standing force under EU command", and "invited all (EU) Member States to contribute to it".

France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg (participating with Funds, Telecoms and Officers), are EUROCORPS"' main "Framework Nations", due to be joined by Italy in 2009. Greece and Austria participate as "Contributing Nations", while Poland decided to upgrade its role. Turkey has liaison Officers for NATO relations, and even USA decided to send Officers to Strasbourg on 2009.

Observers await with impatience also the outcome of NATO's April 2009 Summit in Strasbourg in order to have a better view of EuroCorps' future.

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  Since modern Defence must be able to use all Arms nowadays, EuroCorps tried to charm Strasbourg's People with Music accross popular streets...

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