Hèctor Badenes

El discurso belicista ha impregnado las instituciones europeas hasta el punto de modificar las propias bases económicas neoliberales de Europa y cambiar las reglas del juego global. Por @EconoCabreado  elsaltodiario.com/industria-arma…

Incredible, and maybe even unprecedented, answer by Arnaud Montebourg - former French Minister of Economy - to the question "what method do the Americans use to wage economic warfare against us?" Here's the translation (by me): "They use military tools. First of all, they use all the listening and intelligence systems that they built on after 9/11. They don't listen to terrorists...well they certainly do and that's very good...but they listen to foreign companies that compete with theirs. So it's very simple, it became clear in 2014 when Snowden revealed that there were 75 million conversations and emails that had been exploited by the NSA on France, on French companies. When Pierucci - a man who should wear the Legion of Honor today because he defended France rather than its interests by agreeing to serve two unjustified years in prison in US jails in the Alstom affair... when Mr. Pierucci was taken into custody in Manhattan by the prosecutors they put under his nose 1 million emails. How did they get 1 million emails? By illegal eavesdropping. 1 million emails: it would have taken a lawyer 3 years to read through them… so he couldn't defend himself. So those are the military tools. Second, they have a tool called extraterritorial law. The Americans are using a form of law, which is an imperialist law, which consists in declaring themselves competent for matters which in no way concern them. Example: Alstom, a contract between Indonesia and a French company. They consider that there was an offense that was committed in this matter 10 years ago and they sue Alstom! The United States is not a victim, no American company was involved in this case. They declare themselves policeman of the world by undermining the sovereign interests. Therefore this is interference. They do it in ALL fields, and especially the economic field. For example ITAR. ITAR is interesting: the United States has set a list of 22,000 components on which it grants itself the right to authorize or not the export by a foreign power. Example: you buy a varnish to put on the wing of the Rafale [a French fighter plane] which is on the ITAR list because it is not produced in France but in the US or elsewhere... because of this single varnish they allow themselves the right to say: 'you have the right to export to such and such a country, but not to this one because it is an enemy of the United States of America'. Why should I care if he's an enemy of the United States of America? The enemies of my allies are not necessarily my enemies! Example: they banned the export of Rafales to Egypt because of ITAR. Is that so, and why? So our urgency should be to produce these 22,000 products in France... Or in Europe, in allied countries which are also victims of ITAR. This is a sovereign policy. I can also tell you about the American Patriot Act. 2001, September 11, what do they do? When a French company is bought by an American company, the American government has the unilateral power to request all the information on a company controlled by an American company. Absolutely all the information: patents, technologies, people, etc. Without any motivation and without judicial authorization, which means that these are illegal searches. This is why in the affair of the takeover of the valves which equip our nuclear submarines and power stations - the Segault valves which are manufactured in Mennecy, Essonne - I intervened by saying 'it is out of question that this business goes under American control' and it is now a company that is controlled by Canadians. Canadians do not have extraterritorial rights, it is not an issue to work with Canadians. But Americans are different because they are predators. This is the reason why I said 'it is out of the question that Segault, who equips our nuclear submarines, gives our information to a foreign power'. Because Canadians do not have the right to do so, if they do it is criminal. But for Americans it is the law to do so!"

Von der Leyen, Borrell y los 75 años de su jardín colonial en Palestina elsaltodiario.com/opinion/ursula… via @elsaltodiario

1/Hay personas q piensan q por llevar una vida austera,por ir en bici o no coger vuelos, ellos ya han hecho su parte para mitigar el cambio climático y q el problema es q los demás no viven como ellos. Esto es un grave error y no entender el cambio q tenemos por delante. Aquí..

I forgot to give correct credit to @Be_Grafic for the hard work visualising this!

Hoy hace 35 años que los GAL asesinaron a mi padre, Juan Carlos García Goena. 35 años SIN JUSTICIA, 35 años SIN VERDAD, 35 años SIN RECONOCIMIENTO,35 SIN MEMORIA. Pero nuestra historia, pese a quien le pese, también es parte del relato y seguiremos recordandolo.

50 eurodiputados de 3 familias políticas piden a la Comisión Europea que investigue lo ocurrido en Melilla. "Esta forma de control fronterizo viola la normativa europea, incluido el derecho fundamental de asilo", reza la misiva.

@Per_Energia El gráfico pertenece a bruegel.org/publications/d…

URGENTE | Europa se prepara para el racionamiento energético: lanza un plan para reducir el consumo de gas ow.ly/SxCe50JIP1z

🟣✊ Feministas del Este y del Sur, la historia de una contribución olvidada Las ‘abuelas rojas’ del movimiento internacional de las mujeres (en abierto) ⬇️⬇️ mondiplo.com/las-abuelas-ro…

Las palabras de Borrell sobre el jardincito europeo, ese resort en medio de la jungla, es el supremacismo que exhiben sin pudor los fascismos, y que aplican los Estados adornando las concertinas de confeti y serpentina. Mi columna de hoy en @publico_es blogs.publico.es/dominiopublico…

La independencia energética de la UE no se alcanzará hasta que no se produzca un descenso drástico de la demanda de energía, en particular de combustibles fósiles, acompañado de una transición a un modelo renovable lo más descentralizado posible. Lo demás es propaganda.

💡NEW BLOG📘 A selection of charts from Bruegel’s weekly newsletter, analysis of the year and what it meant for the economy in Europe and the world. Presented by @Be_Grafic @HCLN @porcarorama @ZhanYuyun bit.ly/3pcl3Ch

🗓️ EU GREEN DEAL (1/6) Tomorrow, we are bringing together key EU actors to discuss #EUGreenDeal 🌍 policies that go beyond classic Brussels-based environmental regulations. Scroll down this 🧵 for the full line up: 🕐 Starting 2 December - 9:50 CET bruegel.org/events/europea…

El documental ‘Price of Progress’ logra mostrar el lado más íntimo de los lobbistas en Bruselas. Desmonta los argumentos para pedir el fin del veto a los transgénicos y muestra la hipocresía de la legislación europea en cuanto a tóxicos. Por @lauralruiz elsaltodiario.com/industria-alim…

Atasco global: obras paradas, videoconsolas agotadas y nueve meses para recibir un coche. Por @Alvaro1984 elpais.com/economia/2021-… vía @el_pais

Adiós a los coches (nuevos) de gasolina o gasoil. La Comisión Europea fija para 2035 el fin de la venta de coches de combustión elpais.com/clima-y-medio-… a través de @el_pais

In Paris, Stockholm or Brussels, if you live in a richer area you are more likely to be vaccinated. A paradox, since the poorer were the ones hit harder by Covid-19. For the pandemic to end, this needs to change. @Bruegel_org @liojeanrenaud infogram.com/1p3m12xny29xmq…

I am running out of words to describe what is happening. There are three groups of countries. Those wealthy enough to vaccinate its citizens, those who cannot afford it - and the European Union

Monday Podcast ⏲️ Where did the vaccine strategy go wrong? | The Sound of Economics with Uri Dadush @JScottMARCUS @GuntramWolff 💉 bru.gl/2KZctFH