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A statue of a lamassu, an Assyrian protective deity, at the North West Palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud, Iraq.

A wide view of the Security Council Chamber as Special Representative Bernardino Léon (shown on screen), briefs the Security Council via video conference on the situation in Libya.

Pierre Krähenbühl during the interview

Nigerian refugees at the Minawao camp in Cameroon's Far North region. Fresh fighting has forced thousands to flee to the region.

Almost a year after EIR published two dossiers on the neo-Nazi profile of the Euromaidan coup against the Victor Yanukovych government in Ukraine, and a week after a fragile ceasefire deal was reached in Minsk among Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President François Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, temporarily halting U.S. weapons shipments to the Kiev government, news media in Europe and America are at last waking up to the danger posed by the central role of the Banderite fascists in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

The core of the fight over Greece and “its debt,” is that the new Greek government, with huge public backing, has been asking the European Union to shut down a tremendous Wall Street-London bank swindle and make economic growth possible again in Europe.

The Renewable Energy Directive (Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources) aims at ensuring a 20% share of renewable energy in the EU by 2020. The Directive had to be transposed by the Member States by 5 December 2010.

Employment: Commission requests GERMANY to respect the reference period to calculate average weekly working time for German civil service

In its monthly package of infringement decisions, the European Commission is pursuing several legal actions against Member States for failing to comply properly with their obligations under EU law. These decisions covering many sectors aim to ensure proper application of EU law for the benefit of citizens and businesses.