Author: Looys Martel

Turkey continues to move further and further away from the European Union, says the annual report of the European Commission on EU enlargement policy BRUSSELS, 6 October. /TASS/. Turkey continues to move further and further away from the European Union, negotiations on Ankara’s accession to the EU are at an impasse. This is stated in the annual report of the European Commission (EC) on EU enlargement policy. “<…> Turkey continues to move further and further away from the European Union, seriously retreating in areas such as democracy, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the independence of the judiciary,” it…

China’s defence ministry said on Friday that it yet again had to monitor and drive away the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Milius that entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands. “We sternly demand the U.S. to immediately stop such provocative acts, otherwise it will bear the serious consequences of unforeseen incidents,” a spokesperson said in a statement from the Ministry of National Defence. The U.S. Navy said the guided-missile destroyer was asserting its navigational rights and freedoms. “Unlawful and sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea pose a serious threat to the freedom…

The Iranian government has slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for his recent meeting with popular US-based Iranian activist Masih Alinejad. Taking to Twitter, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Saturday said, “those who ignore 44 years of overwhelming support from the majority of Iranians for the country [the Islamic Republic] and go to a few anonymous clowns, neither believe in democracy nor know the revolution or the Iranian nation.” He also called the anti-revolutionary figures who have met Macron “undignified clowns.” He claimed said that the French president does not believe in democracy and has failed to know the Iranian…

Spectator Australia readers will recall the admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that there was never any testing done to demonstrate that the Covid jab prevented transmission because ‘we had to move at the speed of science’. This admission came in an EU Parliamentary inquiry into Covid, under questioning from Dutch centre-right MEP Rob Roos. The admission blasted away the senseless justification for mandatory vaccination policies which needlessly cost so many people their livelihoods, and so much more. Janine Small appeared at the inquiry in place of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who withdrew at the last minute. Bourla has repeatedly refused to testify…

New York, Brussels (21/12 – 60). Tajikistan regime’s crimes committed against humanity breeds an atmosphere of fear and oppression amomgst the Pamiri community was the verdict of a United Nations human rights mission conducted by Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor, after a recent visit to the country earlier this month. She described the situation of human rights defenders in Tajikistan as an atmosphere of corruption and the fear of persecution. She called on the government to treat human rights defenders as allies, not opponents. There is a violent repression of the ethnic and religious minority – Pamir Ismailis – and it…

French authorities plan to use an AI-assisted crowd control system to monitor people during the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to a draft law seen by AFP on Thursday. The system is intended to allow the security services to detect disturbances and potential problems more easily, but will not use facial recognition technology, the bill says. The technology could be particularly useful during the highly ambitious open-air opening ceremony which is set to see Olympians sail down the river Seine in front of a giant crowd of 600,000 people. French police and sports authorities faced severe criticism in May after shambolic…