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Sudden shift in Parliaments stance on Venezuela?
Geschrieben von: Ralph T. Niemeyer Dienstag, den 16. Oktober 2007 um 01:00 Uhr
Written by Ralph T. NiemeyerTuesday, 16 October 2007
The Vice-President of the European Parliament, Miguel Angel Martinez, of the Socialist Group, met with the Venezuelan Ombudsman, Germán Mundaraín together with the Caribbean oil state’s ambassador to the EU, Alejandro Fleming and lauded the controversial constitutional reform as “strengthening political pluralism” once it was approved by the people in a referendum.
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Chávez fires back
Geschrieben von: Ralph T. Niemeyer Donnerstag, den 01. Februar 2007 um 01:00 Uhr
EP’s resolution „drawn by Franco-Fascist group“
Amnesty International blind on right eye
By Ralph T. Niemeyer
The European Parliament’s resolution to condemn the Venezuelan government for shutting down the traditional station Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) has provoked a fierce reaction from president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías who denounced the declaration as being drawn by the “Franco-Fascist European Right”. Indeed, the resolution was kind of obscure as it demanded that media concentration should be averted and called on the Venezuelan authorities to renew the license of the private TV station for another 20 years. The freedom of speech and freedom of expression should be guaranteed, the resolution emphasised. That’s exactly what Chávez said his aim was. In Venezuela 80% of the stations are privately owned. 85% of all income from commercials are earned by the two private stations Venevisión and RCTV. Two thirds of all TV broadcasting in Venezuela is controlled by these two stations. 80% of all TV productions are conducted by companies directly linked to Venevisión and RCTV. These stations like all other privately owned media are controlled by conglomerates of the oppositional establishment of the country.
Happy Feet Part Two
Geschrieben von: Ralph T. Niemeyer Montag, den 01. Januar 2007 um 01:00 Uhr
EU Commission announces action plan against climate changePresident Barroso de-facto encourages states to use nuclear energy
By Ralph T. Niemeyer, Brussels
What a coincidence. On Wednesday of this week EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso (“JMB”) along with Environment-Commissioner Stavros Dimas vowed to make climate change the top priority on the EU Commission’s agenda. This coincided with the disruption of oil deliveries from Russia through Belarus as part of the trade war between the two former soviet countries to Poland and Germany which prompted a fierce reaction from German chancellor Angela Merkel and Commission president Barroso, who outlined that it was an “unacceptable situation” and that Russia was ruining it’s reputation. At the same time, one may call it another mere coincidence, Mrs. Merkel’s coalition government kicked off a debate about nuclear energy citing the necessity to become less dependent on energy imports.
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
Geschrieben von: Meirion Jones Montag, den 03. April 2006 um 01:00 Uhr
By Meirion Jones - Producer, BBC Newsnight - Monday, 3 April 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4871938.stm
If you thought high oil prices were just a blip think again - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ruled out any return to the era of cheap oil.
President Chavez launching one of his government's social initiatives
Mr Chavez has spent some of the oil money on social projects