Minister calls for creation of United States of Europe

This would allow the region to become an equal global player, the Czech Republic’s Martin Dvorak has argued

The EU in its current form is not nearly as strong as its population and economic power would suggest, Czech Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvorak said in an interview with EURACTIV.cz on Tuesday.

Admitting that this position is “not at all popular,” the minister proposed that the European Union should be turned into “a European Federation or a United States of Europe,” which he claimed would put it in a position where it could be “a truly equal partner in the game between China, America, or Russia and India.”

A hypothetical European federation has also been referred to as the United States of Europe, the European State or Federal Europe. The EU is currently classified as an informal confederation or a union of sovereign states which operates through a hybrid system of intergovernmentalism and supranationalism.

The federalization of the bloc would see it turn into something akin to the US with a single centralized government, which would hold ultimate authority over member states.

While the current Czech government has been hesitant to deepen its integration with the EU, which it officially joined back in 2004, Dvorak has been a vocal supporter of the bloc and has criticized Euroskepticism in his home country.

“I think that the debate in our country lacks the Euro-optimistic or Euro-positive wing, and that is what I want to bring to the debate,” Dvorak explained.

In his interview with EURACTIV, the minister also shared his position on EU reforms and particularly the removal of EU country vetoes in certain policy areas.

“If I define myself as a federalist, then this would undoubtedly be a possible option for me, but, on the other hand, I am very well aware that the political situation is not ripe for that yet. I don’t even know at this point if it ever will,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CVVM) published a poll last week showing that trust in the EU, NATO and the UN had dropped sharply among Czechs over the past year. The survey’s authors have suggested that the drop could be attributed to the ongoing economic and migration crisis.

https://www.rt.com/news/579976-dvorak-eu-become-federation/

Russian military issues maritime warning for Black Sea

All ships heading for Ukrainian ports will be treated as potentially carrying weaponry, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

The Russian military issued a new navigational warning for the Black Sea on Wednesday, declaring certain areas in its international waters to be “temporarily unsafe” for vessels. Apart from that, the military advised seafarers against attempting to reach Ukraine’s ports, stating that all vessels heading there will be treated as potential carriers of war goods starting from Thursday.

Therefore, the flag state of a ship attempting to reach the Ukrainian Black Sea ports will be deemed as “taking part in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Kiev regime,” the Russian Defense ministry said in a statement.

The military said it also declared certain areas in the international waters of the Black Sea to be “temporarily unsafe” for navigation. The areas are located in the north-west and south-east of the waterway, the military noted, adding that all the necessary navigational warnings have already been published as required under existing procedures.

“With the termination of the Black Sea Initiative and the abolition of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00:00 Moscow time on July 20, 2023, all ships en route to Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea will be considered potential carriers of military cargo,” the military insisted.

The new restrictions de-facto re-impose the Russian naval blockade on Ukraine, lifted under the so-called Black Sea grain deal in July 2022. The agreement, signed with mediation by the UN and Türkiye, enabled the safe shipment of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea corridors amid the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Moscow withdrew from the deal on Monday, citing the West’s failure to keep any of the promises made to Russia under the agreement, including re-enabling exports of grain and fertilizers from the country.

Over the past two days, Russia has also ramped up its cruise missile and suicide drone attacks on Ukraine, extensively striking targets in and around Odessa, the key port city of the country. The strikes come in retaliation to the new Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Crimean Bridge, which coincided with the termination of the grain deal.

https://www.rt.com/russia/579972-black-sea-military-ships/

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Russia Claims State Dept. and Atlantic Council Censor Info on US Biolabs Run by Bill Gates and Hunter Biden-linked Metabiota

The U.S. State Department is conducting an “active outreach campaign” to “neutralize Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention,” Russian bioweapons chief Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov charged in a Russian Defense Ministry presentation July 14.

The International Science and Technology Centre (ISTC) in Astana, Kazakhstan plays a key role in the censorship of claims about US bioweapons in Ukraine, Kirillov charged, together with Wooden Horse Strategies, a U.S. consulting firm in Kiev run by Atlantic Council Eurasia Center senior fellow Brian Mefford.

The contract between ISTC and Wooden Horse “provides for the posting of relevant material at least eight times a month, as well as the monitoring of ‘pro-Russian’ publications on this topic appearing online and promptly responding to them, including blocking access”, Kirillov claimed.

The International Science and Technology Centre (ISTC) “funds Internet activities to combat information about U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine and to promote a positive perception of Washington’s projects in the post-Soviet space,” according to Kirillov.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding “dual-use production facilities, such as Oxitec biotechnology company, which could be used to mass-produce vectors” of infection for bioweapons, Kirillov charged.

“An increase in the number of non-endemic Asian tiger mosquitoes has already been recorded in southern and central Europe”, Kirillov claimed. “In Germany, populations of this species have established in five federal districts. Another mosquito species (Culex modestus), a vector of West Nile fever, has been identified in Sweden and Finland.”

Kirilliv charges the work of U.S. military biologists is “aimed at the formation of ‘artificially managed epidemics’ not controlled by the Biological Weapons Convention.”

Russia claims to have seized documents proving the Pentagon maintained bioweapons research institutions in Ukraine through Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and participating in biowarfare in the mainly Russian-speaking Donbass 2014 to 2022.

The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) maintains seven U.S. Navy laboratories, three of which are located outside the USA, in Italy, Сambodia and Peru. The NAMRU-3 installation moved from Cairo, Egypt to Sigonella Naval Air Station in Italy t on Dec. 12, 2019. NAMRU-2 has been located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia since 2002. USN Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU-6) was founded in Lima, Peru 1983.

Kirillov claims that the activity of NAMRU foreign branches “is not limited only to gathering and shipment of pathogens.” He accused the Pentagon of “trying to promote the interests of large American pharmaceutical companies, which are the main sponsors of the Democratic Party’s election campaigns.”

He claims that DOD documents acquired in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine show the Pentagon “planned to use the United States military to test unregistered medical products on local populations and then have them approved by regulatory bodies in the interest of so-called Big Pharma.”

According to Kirillov, “a network of subordinate biolaboratories and intermediary organisations” was used, including the Hunter Biden-financed Metabiota.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/russia-claims-state-dept-atlantic-council-censor-info/

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A Metabiota tender seized in a Ukrainian biolaboratory addressed to the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases “relates to infectious diseases specialists training in Kenya and Uganda”, Kirillov charged. Kirillov claims the document proves the Pentagon’s Defence Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Homeland Security, USAID and EU organizations “have been involved in pathogens research in countries of the African continent.”

“Metabiota’s involvement in the study of the H7N9 avian influenza virus was confirmed, as well as its leading role in the Predict project, which studied new strains of coronaviruses and captured bats that carry them in the natural environment,” claims Kirillov. “Representatives of Metabiota themselves admit that, in fact, they are engaged in networking to ensure the work of the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies abroad.”

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