Several IKEA stores in Germany and Sweden have run out of beds and mattresses due to a surge in demand caused by the influx of migrants, the Swedish furniture chain said Friday. “There is some shortage in several stores in Germany
With an anti-immigrant campaign and razor-wire border fence Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reversed a slide in his party’s popularity, emerging at home as a winner in the crisis that has divided Europe. Personal approval ratings have also jumped
Ultra-modern security systems defending the Bulgarian border with Turkey have proved to be useless, as the border police of the European Union’s (EU) poorest state cannot afford to run them. Europeans were once told they could “rest easy” because the
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
The German government is to downgrade the status of Syrian migrants so that those granted refugee status can only stay for two years and are not entitled to bring their families with them. According a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine
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
Britain’s Minister of State for Europe, David Lidington MP, has blamed media coverage of the ongoing migrant crisis for the popularity of the ‘Brexit’ campaign. Until recently public sentiment in Britain appeared to favour voting to remain in the European Union (EU) in the
An 18-year-old girl claims she was raped by a gang of young Syrian migrants at a care home in Britain. The victim was subjected to a five-hour ordeal at the home in Gillingham, Kent last weekend after her attackers were
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
In a stunning interview, the Maronite patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, has contended that Islam has a clear, two-pronged strategy to take over Europe: religion and procreation. The cardinal said that Muslims look on Christians as weak and
On Thursday, 949 migrants were rescued in a total of eight rescue operations off the Libyan coast coordinated by the Central Office of the Italian Coast Guard, and a separate rescue operation by the Spanish military brought aboard another 517
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
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said yesterday that Europe’s ‘migrant invasion’ represents as unprecedented challenge that “could crush and bury under itself the form of existence we have known up to now.” Mr Orbán was addressing the opening ceremony of the World Science Forum
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
The European Union (EU) is predicting that three million more migrants could arrive in the 28-nation bloc by the end of next year. More than 700,000 people have come to Europe seeking sanctuary or jobs so far this year, overwhelming
A soldier has been attacked with a fence post by a migrant on the Austrian border, in yet another incident of migrant violence. The soldier from the 23rd Battalion of Vorarlberg was attacked on Monday afternoon while patrolling the Austrian border
Up to 70 migrants were involved in a violent clash at an asylum reception centre in Belgium yesterday. It was the latest in a series of such incidents which have taken place across Europe during the ongoing migrant crisis. The
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life.
Angela Merkel’s open-door immigration policy will lead to “civil war”, a senior member of the anti-mass migration Alternativ for Deutschland (AfD) party has said. Hansjörg Müller said Germany could end up a “banana republic without any government” if high levels
Three Syrian migrants have been injured in a fight with two Afghans in an asylum centre in the city of Mühlhausen in central Germany. Local paper Göttinger Tageblatt reports that the three Syrians, aged 15, 30 and 37, were physically
The Britain-hating, Islington, Lefty, Group of Extroverts (BILGE) is meeting tonight in North London to discuss how the United Kingdom should take more migrants. One presumes the Jeremy Corbyn-led cabal will swap out their singing of the Red Flag and replace
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
Syrian migrants being housed in a military base on sovereign British soil in Cyprus have staged a series of dramatic protests, demanding to go to Germany or the UK. The ‘refugees’ burnt their tents, self-harmed and threatened to kill themselves
A fisherman accused of helping migrants cross the English Channel from France is the latest in a growing number of French people turning to human trafficking. The government said this year alone nearly 200 networks operated by 3,000 people have been dismantled in
The head of the European Union (EU) border agency Frontex has warned that over 800,000 people have entered the EU as “irregular” arrivals since the beginning of 2015 and more are on the way. Europe’s frontiers therefore need strengthening with more
