BERLIN – The French and German economy ministers have proposed setting up a 10 billion euro ($10.65 billion) fund to pay for tighter security, external border controls and care of refugees, French minister Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. Speaking in
Sweden said Tuesday it would drastically tighten its asylum rules in a bid to stem the flow of migrants coming to the country, putting its rules on a par with the EU’s minimum regulations. “It pains me to say that
Austria’s population will grow by 60,000 a year due to mass immigration, the country’s official statistics agency has said. Konrad Pesendorfer, head of Statistik Austria, said that by 2030 the small central European nation will have 9.3 million inhabitants, with
A European anti-mass migration political party is launching a major information campaign to put off would-be migrants travelling north, promising a hard welcome and bad weather. The Sweden Democrats, despite desperate attempts by the mainstream Swedish media to alternately ignore
The Polish Prime Minister has rejected EU demands that her country take 7,000 migrants, saying that after the Paris attacks national security must come first. Beata Szydło, whose conservative Law and Justice Party swept to power last month amid the
From The Fiscal Times: Should we keep 10,000 Syrian refugees from coming into the United States? It’s all anyone can seem to talk about in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. Which is odd. I figured the political discussion
As many as 600,000 migrants could enter Europe from Turkey during the four months to the end of February 2016 alone, a report by the United Nation’s refugee agency has found. The flow of migrants north into Europe had been
Nearly 100 migrants attempted to storm the disputed border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Saturday, with two managing to breach the metres-high fence. Authorities have said that at the weekend a number of migrants attempted to cross
Two thirds of Norwegians oppose their country taking in more asylum seekers, a poll has found. The results represent a near reversal of public opinion on the issue in just five months. The Norwegian government is already working to dissuade
“Dozens, if not hundreds” of terrorists have arrived in Europe posing as refugees, sources close to a Belgian investigation have revealed. Among them are at least four senior Islamic State operatives, who have used Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis to infiltrate
Europe should build a Guantanamo-bay style prison on a Mediterranean island for Islamists, says the leader of Austria’s increasingly popular Freedom party (FPO). Although FPO party leader Heinz-Christian Strache is an avowed Eurosceptic, he has called for continental cooperation in dealing
The number of fundamentalist Salafi Islamists in Germany — those who aim to practice their religion according to 7th century norms — is rising at an unprecedented rate. A survey commissioned by Germany security services estimated that there were around 7,900
As the hunt for jihadists widens after last week’s Paris attacks, authorities in Greece warn it was virtually impossible to pick out dangerous extremists among arriving migrants, without prior intelligence. “If they are not already registered in the database, it’s
The Islamic State is engaging in an enormous conspiracy to improve European border security, claims the head of the United Nations (UN) refugee agency, who has claimed that the fake Syrian passport found at one of the Paris attacks scenes
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden, a favourite destination for refugees flooding into Europe, can no longer house all those arriving and many will have to find their own accommodation, the country’s migration agency said on Thursday. Sweden has already imposed temporary border
Last Friday’s terror attack in Paris which killed 129 and injured hundreds more may have cost less than $10,000 to plan and execute. The budget-terror claim was made by an unnamed counter terror expert speaking to NBC News, who said the total cost
The mastermind behind the Paris terrorist attacks entered Europe posing as a Syrian refugee, it has emerged. At least two of the terrorists who carried out the attack are also thought to have slipped in among the hundreds of thousands
Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud was implicated in four thwarted French terror plots this year, a minister said Thursday, deploring the fact that no-one had flagged his presence in Europe. “Six attacks have been avoided or foiled by the French
Rotterdam police have arrested three men after finding a suspicious car with a Belgian licence plate, but ruled out a link to the hunt for a fugitive in the Paris attacks, Dutch media said Friday. The men were held after
Swedish police on Thursday arrested a man suspected of plotting a “terrorist attack” after a two-day manhunt, as the country steps up security after last week’s carnage in Paris. Iraqi Mutar Muthanna Majid was apprehended during an afternoon raid on
“I thought there would be military and police everywhere but I haven’t seen it.” These were the first words the Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson said to me as we began our walk around the Brussels “no go zone” of Molenbeek
French police have stormed and dismantled a migrant camp near the French city of Calais over fears it was being used to recruit extremists. Around 200 officers descended on the camp at Téteghem, clearing out all the residents before local
French President Francois Hollande confirmed yesterday that despite the Jihadi attacks on Paris last week his country will still receive 30,000 migrants over the next two years, “showing solidarity towards these refugees and towards Europe.” President Hollande was addressing a meeting of French mayors when he
The latest YouGov opinion poll for Sweden, released today, shows the anti-mass migration Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats coming top, five points clear of their nearest rival. Building on what was already a historically strong position for the Sweden Democrats, the YouGov
The Islamic State has a cell operating in peaceful Switzerland and has sent fighters to Syria, according to reports. Challenging the conventional wisdom that Islamist extremism is prevalent in Western nations which have invaded middle eastern countries, the claim about the
