It’s Sunday, and downtown Barcelona is buzzing with life — happy couples walking hand in hand, children playing soccer in alleyways, and flocks of tourists following their sweaty tour guides to the next tapas bar. Little do they know that only a few blocks away, several supporters of the Islamic State group were recently detained.
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT, July 27 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund warned on Monday that the euro zone’s prospects were modest and that more money printing than planned may be needed. Contrasting the IMF’s relative gloom, however, German think tank Ifo reported improving
A long-buried 3.5-ton head of Russian communist icon Vladimir Lenin has been unearthed from its burial place in a Berlin forest to be featured in a new exhibit on German sculptures, decades after Berlin’s residents toppled the statue following the fall of the Cold War.
As Hungary plans to build a 100 mile long steel fence along its border with Serbia, new photographs reveal some of the hundreds of migrants who are trying to cross into Europe.
Pope Francis, who was revealed as a major collaborator in the dialogues that have led to President Obama yielding major concessions to the communist regime of Raúl Castro in Cuba last December, responded to a question requesting comment on that nation’s human rights crisis by stating that, in some European countries, religious insignia is banned in public places.
A Greek exit from the Euro was reportedly closer than ever at 6am European Time on Monday, 13th July 2015. It followed 14 hours worth of talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. That is until
The number of migrants and refugees who have made the dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean into Europe has already hit an estimated 150,000 this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) revealed today, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has created a “straight pride” flag as a response to America’s Supreme Court ruling about gay marriage. It also counters the popular rainbow flag used by LGBT people.
The poll found that UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands appear to view the perception of Greece more negatively due to the current situation. However, the study showed countries that were more impacted by the economic crisis across Europe had a less negative opinion of Greece as a tourist destination.
Socialism is having its moment here in America, even as socialism abroad is collapsing in disarray.
Police report that they have arrested double the number of illegal immigrants at Czech international airports as they did last year. Most of the aliens were arrested at Prague’s international airport, and a sizeable number of them arrived on planes from Turkey and Greece.
Illegal migrants trapped in Turkey and hoping to enter the European Union are invigorating that nation’s black market for life vests, useful in crossing the Aegean Sea into Greece. Manufacturers in Izmir, a popular interim destination for refugees, are warning, however, that many black-market life vests are poorly constructed and actually serve to pull the wearer deeper into the water, not keep them afloat.
The Hungarian government is offering free flights and a monthly stipend to its young people, many of whom have left the nation to find work elsewhere in Europe, if they return to the country. The programme, called ‘Come Home, Young People’
After forming a government with the support of ‘Denmark’s UKIP’, the new centre-right bloc’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen has travelled to Germany to meet his counterpart and discuss the new border arrangements. Although the Eurosceptic, anti-mass-immigration Danish People’s Party (Dansk
It has been a difficult week for Greece, whose as-of-yet insurmountable debt to the European Union and International Monetary Fund continues unpaid and with little hope of preventing a default.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece’s financial woes on a day a big repayment to the International Monetary Fund is due and the country’s bailout program with European creditors ends (all times local): 12.32 p.m. The Kremlin
Syrians are the key actors in the human trafficking organizations that illegally smuggle migrants across the Aegean Sea, from Turkey into the European Union (EU), reports Hurriyet Daily News.
Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in Brussels.
Hungary announced plans to build a 100 mile-long wall across their border with Serbia in order to stem the invasion. Serbian leaders harshly condemned the border fence. Their foreign minister went so far as to call it the “new Berlin Wall.”
The Queen stands firmly behind remarks she made yesterday in Berlin, calling for unity in Europe and warning against “dangerous” division, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Speaking at a state banquet in Berlin, Her Majesty called on Europe’s leaders to “maintain the
Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, head of Rwanda’s intelligence agency, has been arrested in the UK on behalf of Spain for an array of crimes allegedly committed following the end of the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 dead. Rwanda is calling the arrest an “atrocity” and “unacceptable” attempt by Europe to “degrade Africa.”
A multimillionaire couple has bought a boat and are using it to save thousands of desperate migrants crossing from Africa to Europe.
Europe is expected to establish a new police unit that will scan the Internet for Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda and shut down the jihadist group’s social media accounts, news outlets report.
Some 185,000 people applied for asylum in an EU country in the first quarter of 2015, up 90 per cent from the previous year, new figures reveal. According to the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat the number of people seeking asylum
A school fair has been cancelled on the French island of Corsica after parents reportedly threatened teachers who planned to have their pupils sing John Lennon‘s ‘Imagine’ in Arabic. Lennon’s anthem to peace, contains some of the most famous lyrics of all time: “Imagine there’s
