A convicted people smuggler has avoided a lengthy jail term because a district court judge believed he was working in the interests of the German state’s policies of mass migration. The Serbian human trafficker, who was part of a gang
Sweden welcomed 10,201 asylum applications last week, the highest ever number. Latest figures from the Swedish migration and asylum bureau (Migrationsverket) have confirmed the historic rate at which migrants are arriving in the country, which has surpassed even the numbers arriving
Eighty-four per cent of Austrians support closing Europe’s external borders, and a strong majority are fearful of the knock-on effects of the migrant crisis, a new opinion poll has revealed. The poll, commissioned by a national newspaper, has laid bare the hardening opinion of
The German interior minister has announced his intention to drop educational standards in the country to help migrants get into school or find a training place. One of the greatest barriers to integration for new migrants is access to jobs, which
A gang of teenage Muslim migrants have been sentenced to less than two years in youth offender centres for beating and raping a vulnerable Swedish woman at an isolated beauty spot. The assault took place at the end of summer, when
Sweden’s government has announced it is now unable to cope with the volume of people migrating to it and is looking to its neighbours and the European Union (EU) for support and emergency aid. Admitting they were being totally overwhelmed
A number of migrants have been recorded complaining about the weather in Austria, and wishing they could go home. Although it isn’t clear what they expect their new hosts to do about the cold, an emerging key complaint among migrants when given
The announcement of the Collins English Dictionary ‘words of the year’ reveals a lot about where we are as a society – and it isn’t good news. Released through the Collins corporate blog on Wednesday, the ten words selected were
The leader of UKIP-like Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) criticised the European Union (EU) for inaction, and demanded an immediate start to border fence construction. Freedom Party of Austria leader Heinz Christian Strache visited the national border with Slovenia yesterday, joined by
A square in the Leipzig old town named for 19th-century German romantic composer Richard Wagner may be renamed to help promote a “cosmopolitan and tolerant” city. Initially suggested by a group of hard-left anti-borders activists masquerading as a “citizens’ initiative”, the
Political-medical charity Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde, MdM) has successfully used human rights legislation to force the French government to take action over conditions at the Calais refugee camp. The changes that will be wrought by the ruling
One of the many Islamist factions borne of the Arab Spring, extremist group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last year, becoming ISIS Sinai in the process. The British government yesterday released a statement confirming suspicions that a
Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta stood down this morning, taking his whole cabinet with him following a nightclub fire at the weekend that killed 32. Although the link between a nightclub fire sparked by pyrotechnics and the government may not
Plans to establish extra-territorial holding and assessment transit zones for the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming to Germany have been rubbished by a leading Catholic bishop who compared them to concentration camps. Liberal churchman Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, bishop of Essen
Danish TV2 had to cut short a report from the Sandholm asylum centre yesterday after their crew on the scene appeared to be intimidated and threatened by an angry migrant. Reporting on the situation at the ‘Asylcenteret Sandholm’, a former military barracks
Illegals attempting to enter Britain by France’s port of Calais are resorting to violence to break their way into lorries, forcing drivers to take radical steps to defend themselves. Although ‘Taser’ stun-guns and CS gas are illegal to own and
Unemployment in otherwise prosperous central European Austria has risen over the past year, with the greatest increase observed among the migrant community. The latest figures from the Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (Austrian Public Employment Service, AMS) show that last month, 410,854 people were employed,
As neighbouring Norway becomes so safe police are preparing to hand in their firearms, Sweden is riding on the crest of a migrant gun crime wave fuelled by bloody gang wars. Not only is gun crime in Sweden higher than
Although many Balkan countries have done little to secure their own borders, they are doing all they can to help the flow of migrants to western Europe transit through as quickly as possible. Since Hungary closed their own borders to Croatia
An estimated 600 patriots marched on the Austrian border with Slovenia yesterday to protest the lack of border controls, and demand the government start building a fence. The group, which chanted slogans coined by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of
A German evangelical priest has offered his parish church up to become migrant housing, but will be stripping out most of the fittings to ensure their comfort – including all symbols of Christianity. Father Joachim Deterding, parish priest of the evangelical Königshardt-Schmachtendorf
A four-year-old boy has been hospitalised after having a stone thrown at him by a resident of a troubled German migrant centre which has seen riots and Islamist violence. The young boy, who has not bee identified, suffered “massive bruising” after he
The mayor of Austria’s second city has said there is no space for single male migrants in his country, and the government should only accept women, children, and families. Right-wing Mayor Siegfried Naglof the Austrian People’s Party expressed his views on
The people of Europe — if not their politicians — are waking up to the fact that mass migration is a cultural, rather than just economic issue, said Viktor Orban on Radio Budapest this morning. Speaking on the daily 180-minute early-morning
The Hungarian border fence has been a remarkable success, according to new figures made public by Viktor Orban’s homeland security chief this week. The new border fences, which closed off Hungary from Serbia in September and continued around the border,
