Come its next elections in 2014, the parliament's constitutional affairs committee wants voters across the 27 European Union states to pick 751 constituency MEPs in essentially national contests, but now also 25 super MEPs from an EU-wide list of candidates. The bill's sponsor, Liberal Demo... Read more...
Judges will no longer have to declare whether they are freemasons when they take office, Jack Straw, UK Justice Secretary, said yesterday. Jack Straw said it would be 'disproportionate' to continue to force judges to declare if they are freemasons. He explains his decision today in a written mini... Read more...
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, and human rights activist. The musical style performed by Fela which is a complex fusion of Jazz, Funk (especially the music of James Brown), Ghanaian/Nigerian High-life, psychedelic rock, and traditio... Read more...
The European Court Of Human Rights has officially ruled police “stop and search” powers, under UK Terrorism laws, illegal for the second time, rejecting a government appeal. Under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police can stop and search anyone without reasonable suspicion. The Br... Read more...
Dubai will not be using full-body scanners in either of its two airports to protect passengers' privacy, a Dubai airports' top police official said, according to local press reports Tuesday. Full-body scanners will not be used in Dubai airports as they "contradict Islam, and out of respect ... Read more...
The European Union has adopted a regulation that will ban the construction of ordinary family houses, starting from 2020. Only the so-called passive houses will be allowed: iDNES.CZ (autom. transl. into EN), EU Business, EU Parliament, Euractiv, Panda.ORG, The Energy Collective; Preliminary ... Read more...
The sovereign debt crisis in Greece and many other European nations has, at least for the moment, opened a gap in the wash of financial disinformation that has prevailed in the mainstream media for the past year. The average American is now more aware of the terrible costs of living in an artifici... Read more...
The first step in what the New Jersey Nets hope is a quick turnaround is in place. New owner Mikhail Prokhorov is eager to get started on the rest. Prokhorov's purchase of the team was approved Tuesday by NBA's owners, who welcomed the first non-North American into their club. The financial tra... Read more...
Finally someone speaks the truth. In an interview with Spiegel Magazine, former Bundesbank chief Karl Otto Pohl, says it how it is: "Without a "haircut," a partial debt waiver, [Greece] cannot and will not ever [repay its debt]. So why not immediately? That would have been one alternative. The Eur... Read more...