Jamaica is black-yellow-green, ie CDU-FDP-Green.

So, does this make a snap election likely?

In the single poll after the EP election, the Greens are in the lead. With one percent. Just after a successful EP election. So, not to put to much weight on this single poll, but it is still interesting.

developing public policy ... to set targets [OF WHAT?]. For example, with regard to employment policies, it will be decided that a measure should benefit [HOW?] two million long-term unemployed people [WHERE?] between the ages of 30 and 50 [WHY?].

official statistics are not collected in a systematic manner. Political and statistical experts should work together but, unfortunately, this is not the case.

It is more difficult to have statistics on women [?]. For example, the agricultural sector employs many women in the South. However, they are part of the informal [sic] employment sector, which does not necessarily [!] respect labour laws.

So there are many legal violations in this sector. But this finding is not based on sector-related studies [!]. Everyone knows this reality but it is not supported by official statistics, which means that this issue is not taken into account in public policies in the agricultural sector.

Macron's call for an 'équipe de France' in EU Parliament shot down

"We will not score an own-goal against our side in the European Parliament, where we sit as a political group. The members of the delegation belong to the team on the left that wants to change the European Union," Sylvie Guillaume, chairwoman of the joint list between French Socialist Party (PS) and Place Publique, told EURACTIV.
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"Our European delegation will not attend the government's invitation on Friday. As we are committed to fulfilling the promises made to our voters, we will not accept any of their instructions on the positions to take in the next five years of our mandate," said Manon Aubry, who leads the [LFI]'s list.
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"This meeting comes much too early, some groups in the European Parliament are not even formed. Today we are only negotiating the roadmap," said EELV MEP Karima Delli.
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"I cannot be part of any 'team' that includes the Rassemblement National. I feel closer to a Spanish socialist than I do to a French nationalist," [PS/Place Publique Raphaël Glucksmann] said on Twitter.

social media networks like Facebook could be ordered to take down anywhere in the world any text, photo or other media ruled to be defamatory by a court.
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The case concerns a Facebook user who shared an online article on their personal page about Austrian Greens politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek. ...An Austrian court ruled that the comments were intended to insult and defame the politician and Facebook removed access to them in Austria.

In his legal opinion, EU Court of Justice Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said companies like Facebook can be ordered by a court "to seek and identify" duplicate copies of information that a court has deemed illegal posted by any users of a platform.

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political speech
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, just shut down ...
Deal struck on copyright reform after 'intense' negotiations
Green MEP Julia Reda, a staunch opponent of the plans, issued a statement ...
Right to be forgotten should be limited to EU, top court says in Google case
Compliance isn't a geography problem.
We won!
The European Parliament has sent the copyright law back to the drawing board.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Readers of this blog are amongst the very few people who have had the chance to learn the information that the original European Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange from Sweden was not issued by any court but by a prosecutor; that this was upheld in the UK Supreme Court despite the Court's open acknowledgement that this was not what the UK Parliament had intended by the phrase that the warrant must come from a "judicial authority"; and that the law had been changed immediately thereafter so it could not be done again.

The European Arrest Warrant must be issued from one country to another by a judicial authority. The original Swedish request for Assange's extradition was not issued by any court, but simply by the prosecutor. This was particularly strange, as the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm had initially closed the case after deciding there was no case to answer, and then another, highly politically motivated, prosecutor had reopened the case and issued a European Arrest Warrant, without going to any judge for confirmation.

Assange's initial appeal up to the UK Supreme Court was in large part based on the fact that the warrant did not come from a judge but from a prosecutor, and that was not a judicial authority. I have no doubt that, if any other person in the UK had been the accused, the British courts would not have accepted the warrant from a prosecutor. The incredible and open bias of the courts against Assange has been evident since day 1. My contention is borne out by the fact that, immediately after Assange lost his case against the warrant in the Supreme Court, the British government changed the law to specify that future warrants must be from a judge and not a prosecutor. That is just one of the incredible facts about the Assange case that the mainstream media has hidden from the general public.

The judgement against Assange in the UK Supreme Court on the point of whether the Swedish Prosecutor constituted a "judicial authority" hinged on a completely unprecedented and frankly incredible piece of reasoning....

Consequently in seeking a new European Arrest Warrant against Assange, Swedish prosecutors had finally, eight years on, to ask a court for the warrant. And the court looked at the case and declined, saying that the move would be disproportionate. It therefore remains the case that there is no Swedish extradition warrant for Assange. This is a desperate disappointment to the false left in the UK, the Blairites and their ilk, who desperately want Assange to be a rapist in order to avoid the moral decision about prosecuting him for publishing truths about the neo-con illegal wars which they support.

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Clinton/Nuland 2020
"That case has nothing to do with us"

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

I thought it would be 5* that would pull it of, given Italy's economic strenght within the EU, and 5* opposition to austerity. But now it looks like it is the fascists who will do it and be credited for breaking the economic prison of the euro. One more reason not to ally with fascists, if it was needed.

One of the important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove capitalist objections to full employment.

The dislike of government spending policy as such is overcome under fascism by the fact that the state machinery is under the direct control of a partnership of big business with fascism. The necessity for the myth of `sound finance', which served to prevent the government from offsetting a confidence crisis by spending, is removed. In a democracy, one does not know what the next government will be like. Under fascism there is no next government.

The dislike of government spending, whether on public investment or consumption, is overcome by concentrating government expenditure on armaments. Finally, `discipline in the factories' and `political stability' under full employment are maintained by the `new order', which ranges from suppression of the trade unions to the concentration camp. Political pressure replaces the economic pressure of unemployment.

I think it is more along the line of the Two Santa Theory:

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus. The only thing wrong with President Ford is that he is still too much a Hoover Republican when what the country needs is a Coolidge Republican.

These statements, seemingly absurd, follow naturally from the Two-Santa Claus Theory of the political economy. Simply stated, the Two Santa Claus Theory is this: For the U.S. economy to be healthy and growing, there must be a division of labor between Democrats and Republicans; each must be a different kind of Santa Claus.

The Democrats, the party of income redistribution, are best suited for the role of Spending Santa Claus. The Republicans, traditionally the party of income growth, should be the Santa Claus of Tax Reduction. It has been the failure of the GOP to stick to this traditional role that has caused much of the nation's economic misery. Only the shrewdness of the Democrats, who have kindly agreed to play both Santa Clauses during critical periods, has saved the nation from even greater misery.

It isn't that Republicans don't enjoy cutting taxes. They love it. But there is something in the Republican chemistry that causes the GOP to become hypnotized by the prospect of an imbalanced budget. Static analysis tells them taxes can't be cut or inflation will result. They either argue for a tax hike to dampen inflation when the economy is in a boom or demand spending cuts to balance the budget when the economy is in recession.

With turned around roles of course. The traditional big parties has taken turns to take out Santa behind the shed and beat him up - and if they stopped the Troika was there to remind them that the beatings must continue or ECB would put on the brass knuckles. Now the fascists has discovered that they can use Santa - in the form of tax cuts mostly - to give to their local rich elite while ignoring Troika, ECB etc. And thus they can combine looking like they are standing up for the little guy while actually opening the spiggot for the bosses.