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Thursday, September 5, 2019

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 9/5/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE UNTIL LATE THURSDAY)

France's President Emmanuel Macron is moving forward with controversial plans to change pensions in his country.

He asking for a later retirement age and more contributions into the pension system by workers and less by employers.

The new Italian government that includes the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party has been sworn in by Italy's President Sergio Mattarella.

The outsider party and the insider party split posts in the cabinet with Five Star leader Luigi DiMaio becoming Foreign Minister.

But the Interior Minister who will replace the tough line on immigration from Matteo Salvini will be from neither party, but a technocrat.

The European Union's Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans says he thinks its good that:

"there is a government clearly working on a pro-EU line"

in Italy.

League leader Matteo Salvini, now moving to the ranks of the political opposition, does not see the new government lasting long......LINK

A threat to unleash the floodgates and send more migrants into Europe from the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan is touting a plan to settle Syrian refugees in what he calls a "safe zone" in northern Syria. He demands international support for his plans or else.

More from the Turkish pro-government media outlet "Yeni Safak"......LINK

An analysis and commentary on the Brexit situation and the EU republished by the "Southfront" website today. It's written by Israel Shamir and originally appeared at "The Unz Review"....LINK

When Israelis voted earlier this year thousands of cameras were placed at polling stations across the country by supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party.

Opponents of Netanyahu said the sudden appearance of cameras was an attempt to intimidate voters and suppress the opposition vote. In some cases police showed up at polling stations to seize the cameras.

Now in the days before Israelis vote for the second time this year, legislation is being pushed by Likud that would legalize the placement of cameras.

The move has been criticized in a legal opinion from Israel's Attorney General Avechai Mandelblit and in the media by head of Israel's Central Election Committee, Justice Hanan Melcer.

Ahead of the elections in Israel Channel 12 News has been reporting on the investigative material in the three corruption cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that will taken up by Israel's Attorney General in early October as he pursues plans to indict Mr. Netanyahu in the cases.

Miriam Adelson, wife of prominent Israel supporter and Republican Party donor Sheldon Adelson, testified in the Case 2000 matter which is one of the three corruption cases.