Germany’s second largest party SPD leader Martin Schulz called for the transformation of the European Union into a United States of Europe by 2025 with a common constitution. “Europe is our life insurance,” Schulz told an SPD party convention in Berlin on Thursday. I want a new constitutional treaty to …
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Power struggle among Merkel, Schulz, Juncker, when they could solve EU problems with a Referendum
It came as it was expected to come after the Brexit vote. Germany and the German European Parliament President are determined to out Jean-Claude Juncker from the European Commission Presidency. Berlin and Strasbourg blame Juncker for the Brexit win and have launched a campaign against him. The issue is how …
Read More »EP President M Schulz blocks Turkey’s visa-free bid
The President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, announced on Wednesday that he has stopped procedures involving the liberalisation of visas for Turkish nationals. Schulz informed reporters that he had not sent the necessary document concerning the visa liberalisation to the appropriate committee. He said that Turkey had failed to …
Read More »EP Schulz does it again: He laments Tsipras’s decision to renew coalition with ANEL
He can’t stop doing this. “This” what? To intervene in the Greek politics. Who? Martin Schulz, German social-“democrat” and President of the European Parliament. For one more time that his favorite party To Potami (4%) did not join Greece’s new coalition government, Schulz called elections winner Alexis Tsipras and -hear! …
Read More »MEP Glezos tells ex-bookseller EP Schulz: “I fear the man of one book” in Ancient Greek & Latin (video)
Oldest Member of the European Parliament and veteran left politician Manolis Glezos had a very original idea on Tuesday morning. He sharply criticized the “I-talk-non -stop-and-scare-Greeks” European Parliament President Martin Schulz teaching him a lesson on how democracy works. Glezos addressed Schulz in Ancient Greek and added also a sentence …
Read More »Furious Greeks launch petition against EP President Schulz for Scaremongering Referendum voters
European Parliament President Martin Schulz angered a lot of Greeks – if not all – with this unprecedented statements of blatant intervention into the political affairs of a sovereign country and of out of control scaremongering to Greek voters, before, during and after the Referendum. Now, some people got really …
Read More »EP Schulz threatens Greeks with Armageddon – Can we sue him for “moral damage” & “breach of public office”?
“Without new money, salaries won’t be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down and they won’t be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay” President of European Parliament Martin Schulz warned Greek voters one day before the crucial Referendum …
Read More »EP President Martin Schulz: “Greeks get on my nerves”
It is not a joke, neither a fake news to troll the esteemed President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz. The politician from the German Social-Democrats SPD said indeed that Greeks get on his nerves! Thursday evening, Martin Schulz was on a panel discussion at Maybrit Illner Political Show of …
Read More »EP Schulz openly says, he would prefer a SYRIZA-To Potami coalition
President of European Parliament said it clearly: that he would prefer if PM Tsipras had a coalition with To Potami. After a meeting with Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis, Schulz told media: “For me it would be better, Mr. Tsipras had to work with To Potami and not with ANEL (Greek …
Read More »Did EP Schulz complain to Tsipras about rain, Russia and lack of EU solidarity?
President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz arrived at the office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras but the timing was bad. It was raining. An obviously disappointed Schulz immediately pointed with the finger towards the sky in front of PM Tsipras’ nose. Martin Schulz complained right away about the shortage …
Read More »EP Schulz in Athens to sermon Tsipras on Russia – and even find new coalition partners for him?
President of European Parliament, Martin Schulz is visiting Athens today to meet with new prime Minister Alexis Tsipras but also with opposition party leaders Antonis Samaras (Nea Dimokratia), Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK), Stavros Theodorakis (To Potami) and George Papandreou (To Kinima), the former PM whose party failed to pass the 3% …
Read More »Odd! EP Schulz & German Industrialist Keitel Want Greece as “Special Economic Zone”
That’s odd. In fact, I think that’s more than odd and it borders to suspicion. One week after the President of European Parliament Martin Schulz proposed to turn Greece into a special economic zone with EU officials sent to control the proper operation of the whole project, the President of Federation of …
Read More »EP President Schulz Proposes Economic (Bubble) Zones for Greece under EU Control
The German head of the European parliament, Martin Schulz (SPD) proposed the setting up of special economic zones in Greece to boost the country’s economy suffering from dramatic recession. In an interview with the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Schulz said that in order to succeed, the plant required Greek readiness to implement reforms …
Read More »EP Pres. Martin Schulz Teaches Greeks The Horror!
“Euro exit could be the beginning of a horror,” the president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz warned the stunned Greeks during an event in Athens and continued in a real morbid mood:”I ask those who think now that a horror end is better than an endless horror to think that exit …
Read More »EP President Martin Schulz Postpones Athens Visit
President of European Parliament Martin Schulz postponed his visit to Athens scheduled for Sunday, May 13th 2012. Schulz was to meet Greek president Karolos Papoulias and allegedly political party leaders bringing a ‘kind of message’. Unconfirmed inofrmation claim that Schulz plans to visit Greece a week later. What could possible be …
Read More »EP President Schulz Rushes to Athens “No Bailout Programme, No Aid”
I could have started to count the warning coming from all sides of Greece’s lenders. One after the other, the e gentlemen warn Greeks that should left-wing SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras demand for renegotiation of bailout programme put into practice, the country would see not a single cent from the Troika loan …
Read More »EP President Schulz: Greece’s Youth Unemployment “Unacceptable”
The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz described as “unacceptable” Greece‘s youth unemployment rate of 45 per cent, saying the heavily indebted nation should be given the chance to implement reforms and return to growth. “The 45 per cent youth unemployment rate is unacceptable and we risk losing a …
Read More »Resistance fighter and left-wing veteran Manolis Glezos dies at 98
Veteran left-wing politician, a symbol for resistance in Greece and abroad, Manolis Glezos has died at 98. He was admitted to hospital on March 18. According to media reports, he died of heart failure. It was the second time he was hospitalized since last November. The legacy he leaves behind …
Read More »To Potami to suspend its operation, donate state funding to Athens University
The political council of the party that almost disappeared in voters’ preference proposed that To Potami suspends its operation. Reason of the proposal is the river dried out. Behind the decision is the decimation of the local groups of the party, a statement said. After a major defeat in the …
Read More »Anti-Greek or just German arrogance? Candidate for Commission presidency Weber in Athens
“Next time I’ll come to Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be Prime Minister.” The bold support came by Manfred Weber, the center-right European People’s Party candidate to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the President of the European Commission. The Bavarian arch-conservative politician from the Christian Social Union choose the Greek capital Athens …
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