Joschka Fischer, former German foreign secretary and key architect of the ever-closer ‘federal’ union, has laughed off British Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to reform the European Union. Despite the warm welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel showed Cameron during his
The European Court of Justice has today handed down a bizarre ruling to the British government, demanding that despite Europe’s constant hectoring over carbon emissions, the UK may not seek to reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) on energy-saving materials to increase its
The city of Calais, France has been labeled a “war zone” for more than a year now, as violence between competing factions of African migrant smugglers threatens to engulf the city and its economy. As the EU demands France take in 9,000 more migrants, officials doubt the country could keep the peace in that scenario.
Contents: US-China tensions in South China Sea take another step upward; EU rescues 4300 migrants in one day as country quotas are enacted
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hopes to get the final details of a bailout deal with the European Union worked out by Sunday, but he has faced increased criticism from the hard left in Greece for negotiating at all.
A court in Catania, Italy, has sentenced 23-year-old Haj Hammouda Radouan to life in prison for manning an illegal migrant ship that capsized in the Mediterranean, killing an estimated 200 people. It is the first such sentence in Italy’s history, a precedent arriving just as the nation prepares for the summer rise in African migrants attempting to reach European shores.
The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and Greece over the next two years.
David Cameron’s European Union renegotiation plans were today dealt a hammer blow as it emerged that Germany and France are officially attempting to block any change to the European treaties – a core part of Mr Cameron’s strategy for Britain to remain
Prime Minister David Cameron’s ever-so-slightly more robust rhetoric on European Union treaty change is betrayed by recent government announcements which play further into the hands of the EU expansionists. Take a look at this story, in the Daily Star, the headline
Five Tunisians died after their boat capsized off the coast of Italy, tossed about in dangerous seas. The tragedy occurred only two days after Italian authorities rescued over 900 migrants.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke with the BBC about his country’s crisis with Russia. He claimed the country is in a “real war” with Russia and must prepare for a Russian offensive.
The European Union on Monday approved a multi-phase military operation to defeat human smugglers who are trafficking migrants from Libya to Europe. Smugglers have been charging migrants thousands of dollars each to make the trip, and there’s no guarantee of reaching Europe or even of surviving.
Ukrainian officials captured at least two Russian soldiers over the weekend, one of whom claimed on video he was a member of a Russian spying mission in the war-torn country.
Nearly 800 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh were rescued by local fishermen when their boat sank off the eastern coast of Indonesia. The migrants were brought to shore, given food and water, and placed in a warehouse.
Slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov’s recently-released report, titled Putin. War, catalogues his country’s involvement in Ukraine. The report claims there are more than 200 Russian military personnel operating in Ukraine. Nevertheless, PayPal shut down an account that allowed people to donate funds to pay for the report’s mass printing.
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The three Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — are asking NATO to permanently deploy ground troops to their nations as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia. The countries’ defense chiefs requested a brigade-size
Iran forces Afghans to fight in Syrian regime’s collapsing army; Debate over the number of European jihadists in Syria; Greece makes debt payment as even leftists lose sympathy
Saudis and Houthis escalate Yemen war further, prior to ‘ceasefire’; EU seeks approval of military action in Libya against migrant traffickers
An uninterrupted flood of illegal immigrants continues to issue forth from Africa into Italy, with this past weekend’s count now nearing 6,000 refugees.
Days after being pulled back from leading the Greek diplomatic team in talks with the European Union regarding the nation’s astronomical debt, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and his wife, Danae Stratou, were the victims of an anarchist mob attack while dining out.
Bloomberg Business understandably sees all sorts of signals in Greece’s decision to pull Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis back from bailout negotiations, a move it describes as “clipping Varoufakis’ wings” and “reining him in” after three months of debt talks failed to produce an agreement.
In an interview Friday with Italy’s Religious Information Service (SIR), the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants, Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò, expressed harsh criticism of the accord reached Thursday at the EU Brussels summit on the issue of Europe’s immigration crisis.
The Daily Beast‘s Eleanor Clift argued that the US bears “some responsibility” for Libya’s “collapse” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” In a discussion on the EU’s refugee crisis, she stated “because the center of the chaos now is Libya…where we bear
“Live and let live” – that’s the motto of Liberland, a new country established by Czech libertarians in a 2.7-mile patch of unclaimed territory between Serbia and Croatia. Originally created as a publicity stunt, an enormous swell of interest in the proposed nation-state has
People in war-torn countries such as Libya and Syria are desperate to escape, including spending all their money to hitch a ride on unsafe boats across the Mediterranean. Over 400 people allegedly died when a boat capsized near Libya. VICE News posted some of the more dramatic photos, but there are more.
