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European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker called again for the bloc to build an army, saying a flock of hens posed more of a threat than its current military capabilities. "A bunch of chickens looks like a combat formation compared to the foreign and security policy of the European Union," Juncker told a Brussels forum in typically lively language.

The European Union’s position is absolutely clear: israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are “illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible”. Yet this report shows how european policy helps sustain the settlements. It reveals that the eu imports approximately fifteen times more from the illegal settlements than from the Palestinians themselves.

The new scheme of the EU will focus on a smaller number of beneficiaries (89 countries) in the form of reduced tariff rates or zero. At the same time, countries that effectively ensure compliance with human rights, labor rights conventions as well as environmental and good governance will benefit from increased support.

"En 2008 (quand les agrocarburants représentaient 3,5 % du carburant utilisé pour les transports européens), si les terres exploitées pour fabriquer des agrocarburants à destination de l'Union européenne avaient plutôt servi à cultiver du blé et du maïs, la production agricole issue de ces terres aurait pu nourrir 127 millions de personnes pendant toute une année." (surtout en Afrique)

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Un reflet typique au désordre qui caractérise l'Union européenne c'est la gestion des documents officiels. Il existe l'EUR-Lex mais jamais dans une période de recherche plus de 10 ans on n'a pas réussi à trouver un document grace à l'aide de ce "curieux" site. Et les autres sites destinés à la cataloguer des documents officiels ne sont pas plus utiles non plus.