A court in Switzerland has ruled that the army was wrong to reject a recruit because he held far right-wing views. According to an ATS news agency report, the army rejected a recruit from the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino after
Landings of thousands of illegal immigrants from North Africa are becoming “dramatic and unsustainable,” and Italy and Malta say they have been “forgotten” by the rest of Europe amid a flood of migrants. At the weekend Italian, Maltese and American
Not for the first time a senior member of the Conservative party has demonstrated he does not understand how the European Union works. Worse, the Conservative in question, Andrew Lansley, the Leader of the Commons, is now favourite to be
After the triumph, the tragedy — or at least the stupidity: last month Marine Le Pen and her anti-establishment Front National topped the polls in the elections to the European Parliament, pushing the ruling Socialist party into third place and
Narendra Modi, the new prime minister of India, may be favourably inclined to address key concerns of the European Union over the restricted access to Indian markets, according to a report in the Indian Express. The EU and India began
Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is now the most popular party in Ireland. A party once considered so toxic that the voices of its members, including party leader Gerry Adams, were barred by law from television
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has ruled herself out of becoming the president of the European Commission. Speaking in London yesterday at the presentation of the IMF’s annual assessment of the British economy, she said: “On
A report leaked to the British Tory press that Jean-Claude Juncker, the frontrunner to be the next president of the European Commission, was “dead drunk,” vulgar and aggressive in a meeting in 2007 when he was prime minister of Luxembourg raises
European Union officials have told a Lebanese newspaper they do not believe the Algerian-French gunman who allegedly murdered three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and seriously injured another acted alone, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.
The European Union has lost control of its foreign policy to Washington and now “there are no independent states left in Europe,” Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s anti-establishment Front National, said in an interview with the Russian news channel
Geert Wilders, leader of the eurosceptic, anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), is about start his career at the European Parliament by being as awkward as possible. Wilders, who will be allied in Brussels and Strasbourg with Marine Le Pen’s Front
In response to the shooting on May 24 at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, has said there will be closer cooperation between European Union states against fighters returning from Syria, after the suspected
Jean-Claude Juncker, the frontrunner to take the top job at the European Commission, has been complaining about the amount of scrutiny he is now under by the British press. He has warned his supporters that they must be ready for
In a move that raises doubts whether some feminists understand their target, a bare-breasted female protestor attacked a statue of Vladimir Putin at a wax museum in Paris on Thursday, stabbing its face and straddling the flattened figure of the
In the first four months of this year so many illegal immigrants crossed the Mediterranean and entered one of the EU member states that the number is already close to the 2013 total and is likely to rise as summer
Conservative MEPs have succeeded in poaching enough of Nigel Farage’s old Continental allies at the European Parliament to be able to brag that they are going to belong to a bigger group in the assembly than UKIP. But other than
A Chechen Imam was arrested in the Austrian city of Graz on Monday under suspicion of terrorism. The 41-year old cleric, whose name has been withheld by police, is thought to have radicalised eight young Chechen men living in Styria,
Tonight eurosceptics at the European Parliament are in turmoil as reports circulate that Beppe Grillo, leader of the Italian Five Star Movement with 17 MEPs, may be back-peddling on a deal to join Nigel Farage and UKIP in a political
Members of right-wing Austria student fraternities known as Burschenschaften will march in Vienna this evening. Although they say they are politically neutral, the Burschenschaften have ties with the eurosceptic Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), which took almost 20 per cent of
Hundreds of migrants in Calais have written to the French authorities demanding to be allowed to travel to Britain “as soon as possible.” Until they are allowed into the UK, they say, they should be given houses in Calais and
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approached French President François Hollande privately to ask if he would be willing to put forward Christine Lagarde, the former French cabinet minister who is now head of the IMF, as president of the European
France is preparing to train hundreds of Russian naval crew to operate a powerful French-made warship this month, defying calls from the U.S. and other Western allies to keep the vessel out of the Kremlin’s hands, according to a report
Details of Britain’s “above top secret” covert surveillance programme – including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East – have been disclosed by veteran British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell writing in the Register.
