The retired president of a German state court has accused chancellor Merkel of acting unconstitutionally, and of moving to build her own personal power at the expense of German democracy. Judge Michael Bertrams, former president of the constitutional court of North
For years, South Africa’s apartheid government ignored the significance of a “golden rhino” figurine that provides undeniable proof of a sophisticated society existing before white men arrived. But since the end of racist rule in 1994, the stunning object —
A teachers’ association in Germany says an annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ should be taught in senior high school to help “inoculate” teenagers against political extremism. The Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic diatribe has not been printed in Germany since
A woman who ingested poison she bought online to bring on an illegal late-term abortion has been jailed. She was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant with her son Luke when she took the poison, which brought on a miscarriage, resulting
A group of seven men sang a war-chant favoured by the Islamic State and tried to recruit fellow passengers while riding on the Berlin U-Bahn railway. Berlin police are investigating after a large group of suspected radical Islamists rode the underground
Two Palestinian origin men radicalised by Islamic State propaganda were arrested after they plotted to attack the Israeli embassy in Berlin. Arrested in July, the prosecution against 21 year old ‘Mohamed El-N.’ and ‘Ali El-I.’ — the German state does not provide
BRUSSELS – Prime Minister David Cameron gave his strongest suggestion yet on Friday that he hopes to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union in 2016, before a self-imposed two-year deadline. The timing of the referendum, to
The Conservative Party’s pro European Union (EU)-expansionism cheerleader, Daniel Hannan MEP, has lobbed a dud grenade at Breitbart London this evening, demanding to know when we “last attacked Brussels”. Mr. Hannan – a long standing advocate of the EU’s expansion
The desperate situation in which alleged victims of a Rotherham grooming gang found themselves continues to shock as the abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court progresses. Although some early effort was made by victims to bring matters to light, it
Police have arrested an alleged Islamic State fund raiser at a migrant centre in Germany. The 31-year-old man, who anti-terror campaigners claim uses the nom de guerre Laith Al Daham Deiri, was detained at a camp in the town of
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Christmas came early for Brussels lawyers and policy wonks who relish nothing better than a brain-teasing multidimensional constitutional puzzle to while away the dark days of winter. After a “make-or-break” summit dinner with Prime Minister David Cameron,
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday the EU should offer visa-free short-stay travel to the bloc for Ukraine, Georgia and Kosovo, all three locked in bitter disputes with Russia. “The Commission this morning took a positive position on the
As Prime Minister David Cameron hunts for a deal on restricting benefits for EU migrants, eastern Europeans in Britain say they are weary of stereotypes casting them as workshy. With net migration to Britain at record levels, Cameron wants to
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s spy agency is working again with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s secret service to swap information on Islamist militants, the Bild daily said, despite Berlin’s opposition to Assad staying in power under any peace deal for Syria.
The Irish government has been aware that migrant workers have been trafficked into its fishing fleet since 2008, but plans to tackle the problem were shelved years ago, it has emerged. A recent investigation revealed widespread allegations of an endemic
Norway’s Prime Minister has appointed a politician from the anti-mass migration Progress Party as the country’s first ever immigration minister. In a reshuffle of her cabinet this week, Prime Minister Erna Solberg appointed Sylvi Listhaug to the new post in
With the country still nervous in the wake of November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, French churches are ramping up Christmas security to stop symbolic attacks by jihadi terrorists. The French Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, issued a three-page note warning police
Footage has emerged of a migrant wielding a hammer at the driver of a German lorry as he attempts to climb aboard, en route to England. Around a thousand migrants yesterday stormed the Channel Tunnel in a coordinated effort to
Keen holiday makers will be able to see history in the making, getting just half a mile from the fighting in Syria with a Russian tour company offering ‘Assad Tours’. The bargain holidays will take tourists to some of the
The Telegraph is promoting an obscure petition calling for “right wing” comedian Andrew Lawrence to be banned from the BBC after he joked that feminists could kill themselves to achieve gender equality. Mr Lawrence, who is well-known for his politically
The British government has given up looking for 10,000 missing migrants because to search for them would be a “drain on resources”, according to the chief inspector of borders and immigration. David Bolt said that a further 30,406 failed asylum
Turkish media outlets are reporting that the government has seized 27 Russian commercial ships because they failed “to meet sailing criteria.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has scrapped plans to erect a statue of Balint Homan, a former World War Two government minister who supported anti-Semitism in Hungary in the 1930s and 40s, after protests from Jewish leaders. The row over honouring
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron faces two months of difficult negotiations in his bid to alter European Union rules ahead of a planned referendum on Britain’s continued membership in the EU. Substantive differences remain, but Cameron and other
Brussels is becoming less democratic and more monolithic by the week. At a time when 76 per cent of EU citizens believe corruption is widespread across the European Union, why is Britain giving away our personal and financial data? We
Authorities in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg have closed down a Muslim association and mosque which is believed to have raised funds and recruited for Islamic State terrorists. According to Baden-Württemberg’s Interior Minister Reinhold Gall, the Muslim association in question — the
