Posted on 04/17/2014 1:11:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Europe is facing its largest human rights crisis in over two decades, according to the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe (CoE).
The human rights watchdog, in a report published on Wednesday (16), says corruption, human trafficking, racism and discrimination persist across Europe. […]
CoE secretary general Thorbjørn Jagland—in a statement entitled “Europe in biggest human rights crisis since Cold War”—said the lack of democratic checks and balances, free media and an independent judiciary is the cause of widespread corruption and misuse of power.
He is calling for a “new pan-European security agenda” to help stem the abuse. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
Europe has been a basket case for a thousand years.
“Human rights” in the EU is a contradiction in terms.
But the US is segregated!
The worst of Jim Crow was better than most of Europe
Wwwhhaaaaa?
Europe and America seem to be the only ones worried about racism. What about South America, Africa and Asia? It certainly exists there, but the people there don’t obsess about it. Maybe they have more important things to worry about.
“So the answer to the problems of centralization is more centralization.”
In the standard issue European Mindset, it only ever works like that.
Everyone who wasn’t happy with the aristocrat and serf mentality left that place generations ago.
Too bad they can’t spell.
The problem is spelled M U Z Z I E.
As in TOO MANY OF ‘EM. There, that fixes it.
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