NATO needs civilian infrastructure in Europe to meet its growing military requirements, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said ahead of a meeting in Brussels. This will mean coordination with national governments and the private sector, he added.

Defense ministers from the 29 NATO states arrived in Brussels to begin discussions on a “revision” of the NATO Command Structure. What is envisioned is a new command to protect sea lines between North America and Europe, and another to “improve the movement of troops and equipment within Europe.”

Around 8,000 workers from the automotive industry gathered at Trade Union Square in Mioveni to protest against the government's plans to transfer social contributions from employer to employee as well as to demand starting construction of Pitesti-Sibiu motorway, Tuesday.

Tankers run by US energy corporations are delivering liquefied natural gas (LNG) bought in Russia to the Antwerp Gas Terminal in Belgium, reports Belgian daily Le Soir, as part of an investigation based on the 'Paradise Papers' leak.

On Sunday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), reportedly financed through George Soros funds, released over 13 million documents from the world’s leading offshore law companies. The documents revealed that four cargo ships owned by Navigator Holdings bought gas produced by Russian petrochemical company Sibur.

In the document entitled “Progress report on the Alliance’s Enhanced Deterrence and Defence Disposition,” leading military figures call for a major boost to military capabilities in order to conduct a so-called “Major Joint Operation Plus.” The abstruse terminology in fact stands for a war involving the main military organisations of all NATO countries, i.e. hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Der Spiegel notes: “The period of the peace dividend is past, the command structures of the Cold War are returning.”

The secret report states that NATO must be able to “quickly strengthen one or more threatened allies, underpin peace and wartime deterrence, and support allies in the event of an attack.” The mobilisation of the necessary troops requires “robust military logistics and capabilities”. The lines of communication would have to extend from North America to the eastern and southern borders of the NATO Alliance.

A leaked German military report has revealed Germany's top military planners believe the breakup of the EU by 2040 is a conceivable eventuality - given the apparently irresistible rise of euroskeptic parties across Europe, such fears could be well-founded.

ICELAND’S two surviving pro-EU parties have today abandoned their hopes of forcing a referendum on joining the bloc amid huge public opposition to membership.

AUSTRIA has sent a powerful political message to the EU by appointing an anti-European candidate as foreign minister.

George Soros, a Hungarian-American investor and the founder and owner of Open Society Foundations NGO, was able to meet with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker with “no transparent agenda for their closed-door meeting”, and pointed out how EU proposals to redistribute quotas of migrants across the EU are eerily familiar to Soros’s own self-published plan for dealing with the crisis.

The billionaire financier believes that the European Union should receive millions of immigrants from the Middle East and Northern Africa, provide each one with an annual 15,000 EUR in aid, and resettle these migrants in member-states where they do not wish to go and are not necessarily welcome.

Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan-Guru Murthy blocked Breitbart London journalists after the news network reported his claim that Christianity is “not really a sort of a fundamental of Europe”.

Guru-Murthy made the comments during the following exchange with Hungary’s Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Dr Zoltán Kovács, after he said his government regards large-scale illegal migration as undesirable, and that world civilisations “all have their nature, their own characteristics” — including Europe.

The deployment of US Special Operations Forces in Europe is never in spotlight but it is rapidly increasing. There can be no other purpose than acquisition of capability to deliver strikes deep into Russia’s territory.

If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes.

Thousands of Basque protesters took to the streets of Bilbao earlier today to support Catalonian independence.

Despite the rain, thousands of demonstrators waved Basque and Catalonian flags as Madrid judges have issued an European Arrest Warrant for the return of Catalonia's President Carles Puigdemont.

Members of the Catalonian leadership face up to 30 years in prison for their attempt to breakaway from Spain, which has seen several former government ministers arrested and taken to Madrid.

Footage was released on Friday showing Italian police seizing around 24 million opiate tablets.

The vast quantity of opiate tablets were discovered at the container port Gioia Tauro in the southern Calabria region.

The tablets reportedly belonged to ISIS and were going to be sold to help finance the terrorist organization.

The drugs sales were "managed directly by Islamic State [ISIS] to finance the terrorist activities planned and carried out around the world," Reggio Calabria's chief prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho said.

Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has accused Germany of interfering in Poland's internal affairs after Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen made comments in support of Poles' "resistance" to government policy.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, a presenter for publicly-owned broadcaster Channel 4, left the Hungarian prime minister’s spokesman “stunned” after asserting that Christianity is “not really a fundamental of Europe”.
The journalist began his interview with Dr Zoltán Kovács, Hungary’s Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, in a decidedly hostile fashion, asking him “what it is about migration that he’s afraid of”.

“It’s an uncontrolled and apparently unstoppable form of migration,” the minister explained.

“It’s illegal migration, per se. We’ve seen altogether almost two million people arrive into Europe in less than two years, and that’s an alarming issue especially if it’s related to those areas and events which are surrounding Europe–”

The Spanish court has issued an European arrest warrant for Catalonia's ex-leader Carles Puigdemont and several other local government officials who are currently in Brussels, according to local media reports.

Previously, the lawyer of Carles Puigdemont has explained his client absence at a court hearing by climate issues. However, previously, the lawyer has stated that the former leader of Catalonia had no intention to show up to testify any way.

It took the Turkish parliament more than ten years to acknowledge something which is known and carefully documented: Five so-called non-nuclear states including Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey have stockpiled and deployed in their various military bases 150 tactical B61 nuclear weapons directed at Russia, Iran and countries in the Middle East. Nobody seems to be concerned and has not received media coverage. Belgium is reported to have 20 B61 nuclear weapons under national command, Turkey has 50.

Catalans blame Madrid for their economic malaise. But the real culprits are in Brussels, Frankfurt, and Berlin. This disconnect is poised to fuel more regional separatism in Europe.

Unlike the Austro-Hungarian Empire of old, Austria and Hungry today are becoming increasingly pro-Russian, along with the fellow Slavic country of the Czech Republic.

The victory of Austria's young new leader follows the populist trend of late, and he'll fit in well with his Hungarian and Czech counterparts, but time will tell what effect their cooperation will have on the Eurosceptic movement, European Populism, and relations with the Eurasian giant that is Russia.

THE PRESIDENT of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said tonight that the pressure on Serbia and him is great, as well as that all the great powers coming to Serbia are concerned about their interests and that they do not cooperate with the opposite side.

"Serbia sits on its chair, until it can, no one can guarantee it, but in the second instance when it can not be, we will have someone else in the Serbian government, but also in the position of the president of Serbia," Vucic said, adding that nobody he does not like, not on one side, except for the citizens of Serbia.

He said that the great powers will not change their position on the independence of Kosovo.

Speaking of a conversation with US official Brian Hoyt Yi, he said the conversation was difficult.

"They come with their interests, none of them came to fulfill any of the interests of Serbia, or what is a priority for Serbia's citizens," Vucic said.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that the interference in Serbia's internal affairs is a continuation of the US pressure on Belgrade to make a choice between co-operation with Russia and the European Union.

"Recently, US Deputy Secretary of State Brian Hoyt Ji was in Serbia who said that Belgrade must make a choice - either the EU or Russia, as it is impossible to have friendly relations with both sides, and that America absolutely supports the European choice of Serbia. Is not this an interference in the internal affairs of one country? "Lavrov asked.

It is said that he recalled that similar statements came from the EU in 2004 when the first "Majdan" took place in Kiev.

"It was then that Ukraine was told that it had to make a choice - either with Russia or with Europe," Lavrov added.

A POLISH MEP unleashed a brilliant anti-Brussels rant which accused the European Union of creating more problems than it solves.

The majority of third world-origin migrants living in Italy suffer from mental disorders which make them prone to “aggressive behaviour” and “psychotic episodes”, according to a study by psychologists.

Research into the mental health of asylum seekers living in the Padua, northern Italy, found that 54 per cent of those sampled showed “obvious symptoms” of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), local media reports.

Spanish Police Brutality 1st October 2017 Catalonia Full Compilation

The Spanish government decided to reach back into its history and borrow from the playbook of longtime Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco in dealing with Catalonia’s decision to declare independence from the Spanish Kingdom as the Republic of Catalonia. The Catalan government’s decision to declare independence followed an October 1 referendum in the region that resulted in a “yes” for independence.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose Popular Party is a direct political descendant of Franco’s fascist Falangist Party, wasted no time in invoking, for the first time, Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which allows the Spanish Kingdom to impose direct rule on regions not adhering to the whiplashing from Madrid. Catalonia is the first, but possible not the last victim, of Spain’s neo-fascism on display for the entire world.

The United States isn’t alone in fielding a large contingent of special operations forces. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency estimates that Russia’s Spetsnaz (“special purpose”) troops number around 30,000, a sizeable force, although less than half the size of America’s contingent of commandos. Russia, SOCOM’s Thomas told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this year, is “particularly adept at leveraging unconventional approaches to advancing their interests and it is clear they are pursuing a wide range of audacious approaches to competition – SOF [special operations forces] often present a very natural unconventional response.”

A GERMAN MEP has outlined how the EU will push through its plans to build its own army - by encouraging member states to "save money" by handing over control of military affairs.

The European Union will persuade other member-states to join Jean-Claude Juncker's plan for a bloc-wide army by grounding it in "economic efficiency".

Jo Leinen, a German MEP, dropped the shock revelation yesterday, claiming the policy of national armies "cannot continue" for much longer.

It comes as Donald Tusk, the European Council President, plans to set up an EU army by the end of the year to fight back against “destabilisation around Europe”.

A GERMAN MEP has outlined how the EU will push through its plans to build its own army - by encouraging member states to "save money" by handing over con

Jo Leinen calls for more efficiency of Brussels' spending

THE founder of the 5 Star Movement has predicted the desire for independence will grow in Italy as “the desire comes from all over the world”.

The Catalan Parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, prompting the national government to impose direct rule on the region just 40 minutes later.

But before the vote, opposition parties stormed out of parliament in protest - with pro-independence MPs draping their empty seats with Catalan flags.

In response, the Spanish government in Madrid has invoked article 155 of the country's constitution, dismantling Catalonia's autonomy.

Spain's prosecution office said the country's top prosecutor will seek rebellion charges for those responsible for the vote. That means President Carles Puigdemont and others could face up to 25 years in prison.

Following a secret ballot, MPs in the Catalan regional parliament passed a motion to declare independence from Spain. Opposition members boycotted the vote.

The independence motion was passed with 70 votes in favor, 10 against, and two blank ballots, the assembly's speaker announced, according to Reuters. The vote led to a celebration among thousands of independence supporters cheering in the streets in Barcelona, the region's capital.

The European Commission has outlined a swathe of new policy proposals, with some greatly enhancing the power of the bloc, at the expense of national governments.

The European Commission has outlined over two dozen proposals and initiatives it wants tabled before May 2018, as part of a comprehensive effort to create a "more democratic Europe" — although some are likely to prove contentious.

NATO is reportedly mulling the creation of two new commands designed to improve allied logistics and protect supply lines – all in a bid to address weaknesses in any potential conflict with Russia, says a report by the Wall Street Journal citing sources.

NATO defense ministers will review the new command structures at their quarterly meeting in November, allied officials told the newspaper.

The recommendations reportedly include a new NATO logistics command that would focus on moving people and material more quickly, and a command for the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, meant to focus on protecting sea lanes, critical for securing Europe from submarine threats.