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Refugee Influx May Force European Exodus to Siberia
The huge influx of migrants into Europe might one day force the Europeans to flee their own land, seeking for shelter. The Polish media even suggests they could find refuge in Russia’s Siberia; many already see it as “durable and stable” and secretly wish the “polite people in green uniforms would one day ensure their stability”.
Having found themselves in the middle of the migrant chaos,...
Over 2 Million Europeans Sign Petition Against TTIP
The Self-Organized European Citizens’ Initiative Stop TTIP, the group behind the petition, note that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is “a threat to democracy, the environment, consumers and labor standards.”
More than 2 million Europeans have signed a petition against the controversial free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States,...
Europeans just can't compete with Americans on internet - Obama
President Obama has criticized European efforts to regulate the internet, suggesting Brussels is unfairly targeting US tech companies, because their European rivals just “can’t compete” with Americans.
“We have owned the internet,” Obama stated in an interview with the technology portal Re/Code, during his summit on cyber-security in Silicon Valley on Friday. “Our companies have created...
Europeans don't know how much tax money gets paid to EU
Most Europeans have no idea how much they pay the EU in taxes and are unable to correctly place Baroness Catherine Ashton within the bureaucratic system, a poll performed by RT in 10 European capitals has revealed.
RT correspondents interviewed nearly 200 people on the streets of Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome, Prague, Paris, Bratislava, Warsaw, Athens, London, and Berlin.
Those surveyed were asked to answer...
Scientists warn of new bubonic plague
The cemetery in Bavaria, Germany (A). The skeleton of a victim of the Plague of Justinian (C). Objects (E) from the grave (B) that helped scientists to estimate the plague victim’s death as occurring between 525 AD and 550 AD. A tooth from which the genome of the plague was extracted (D).
Scientists have reconstructed the genome of the first recorded bubonic plague and compared it to two later pandemics....
Do Europeans owe their lives to migrants?
The question of who lives at the expense of whom in the EU and who owes whom, migrants to the local population, or vice versa, is the most discussed in Europe. The issue is not foreign to the UK that has been promoting its policy of multiculturalism for many years. Pravda.Ru talked to experts to find out whether this policy was advantageous.
Britain in recent decades has been flooded with immigrants...
24,000-year-old Siberian boy links Western Europeans to Native Americans
The anthropological world was stunned when the recent genome study of the 24,000-year-old remains of a small Siberian boy revealed that the child was both part-Western European and modern Native American.
This turns on its head the long-held notion that those who first settled the Americas (themselves descendants of Siberian populations) were related to East Asians, as well as raising questions as...
Up to 146 million risk poverty if EU's austerity drags on
As EU countries battle the financial crisis with austerity, average citizens get hurt while unemployment rises and social programs disappear. Up to 146 million Europeans are at risk of falling into poverty by 2025, the head of Oxfam’s EU office told RT.
If the damage being inflicted by the European Union’s austerity measures is not reversed, the number of people trapped in poverty will increase...
Nigel Farage To Europeans: “Get Your Money Out While You Can”
In Nigel Farage’s first TV appearance since the Cypriot wealth tax was announced, the Englishman pulls no punches.
In all his years and all his experience of the desperation of the European Union’s leadership “never did [he] think they would resort to stealing money from people’s savings accounts.”
The simple fact is that they know they cannot let any country leave, no matter how small,...
Thousands of Europeans demand end to Austerity
A trade union representative gives a speech in Brussels, Belgium, against austerity policies on March 14, 2013.
Thousands of Europeans have staged a rally near the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels to protest against anti-austerity measures.
About 15,000 protesters and trade union representatives from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and other European Union countries gathered in the Belgium...
Europeans forfeit their freedoms to Brussels
European Union (EU) member states have forfeited their political freedoms to a bunch of unelected officials in Brussels, an analyst tells Press TV.
“Free trade is a great idea. I always support the idea of free trade among European countries – a wonderful idea. But giving up your political freedom to a central government that is virtually unelected? Are you kidding? They need to wake up,”...
Stone Age Europeans were first native Americans
Diorama of a scene where ancient people are hunting mammoths. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Academy of Sciences, in St. Petersburg
Europeans may have been the first people to settle in America, possibly more than ten thousand years before anyone else set foot there.
A series of European-style tools dating from twenty-six-thousand to nineteen-thousand years ago have been...
Russia refuses to sign European gay rights document
An unprecedented event took place at the conference on youth policy of the members of the Council of Europe. The declaration on the rights of the youth was not signed. It happened so because Russia refused to sign the document, as members of European delegations suddenly set forth a new paragraph, trying to make it the key one in the whole declaration. The paragraph was about the rights of homosexual...
Most Europeans oppose Iran oil sanctions
Europeans are concerned about high fuel prices resulting from the Iran oil ban and its negative effects on the economic situation of their countries.
A new poll conducted in five European countries shows most people are against imposing sanctions on Iran’s oil sector.
A total of 2,100 adults in Germany, France, Austria, Sweden and Poland responded to the poll which was conducted by the German...
Thousands of European protesters mark May Day
May Day demonstrators protest in Paris, France, May 1, 2012
Tens of thousands of Europeans have held huge rallies and coordinated general strikes for May Day to protest against tough austerity measures and poor economic conditions.
Workers across the world have taken to the streets to mark the International Workers Day, the annual May Day workers’ event held on May 1 – with demonstrators...