Following the European Union’s emergency summit on the Libyan refugee crisis, French President Francois Hollande announced he would seek a United Nations resolution authorizing the destruction of smuggling vessels.
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Amnesty International called the European Union “negligent” over the deaths of 17,000 migrants in 2015. The blame is solely placed on Italy, who ended their Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation shortly before the latest wave of migrants began fleeing Libya.
The European Union’s summit to deal with the Mediterranean refugee crisis is underway, and based on leaked documents, it appears a major component of the strategy will involve returning most migrants to their countries of origin.
In the wake of a horrible tragedy in the Mediterranean that appears to have drowned over 800 refugees, the European Union called a summit, scheduled to begin on Thursday, to consider options for dealing with the Libyan crisis. According to a report at the Telegraph & Argus, experts are “warning the death toll could reach the tens of thousands as growing numbers of desperate migrants take to the waters in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats.”
Rescue teams in the Mediterranean Sea are giving up hope of finding more than 28 survivors from a vessel that was carrying 850 migrants, as the captain of the ship and one of his crew members are charged by Italian authorities with reckless homicide and engaging in human smuggling activities.
The European Union has been involved in what seems like a permanent investigation of Google for abusing its search-engine dominance. There is a certain through-the-looking-glass quality to Reuters’ report on the latest developments, as Google is punished with anti-competitive regulations for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive practices.
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The Armenian genocide is a very sensitive subject with Turkey, as it prefers to think of that horrendous century-old bloodbath as a military clash with the Ottoman Empire, which the Armenians lost very badly–badly enough to kill about 1.5 million of the 2 million Christian Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire at the time, to be specific.
The Italian police have arrested 15 Muslim refugees from war-torn Libya, on charges they murdered Christian passengers on their escape boat by throwing them overboard.
ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would disregard the European Parliament’s vote later on Wednesday on the 1915 mass killings of Armenians, which the pope this week described as genocide.
“At the European level, we estimate that 5,000-6,000 individuals have left for Syria,” European Union Justice Commissioner Vera Jouriva told Le Figaro in a Monday interview, as transcribed by AFP. She went on to say this was a very conservative estimate, because keeping tabs on foreign fighters in the Syrian theater is extremely difficult.
In what was received as a pleasant surprise by the European Union, Greece made its first 460 million euro payment to the IMF this week. The Mediterranean country continues to struggle with generating enough revenue to pay off their multi-billion-dollar debt, and one major international player looking to capitalize on their need for business is China.
Tony Blair, the disgraced former prime minister and possible war criminal, believes an EU referendum would be “dangerous” for Britain. He has come out strongly backing Ed Miliband on ruling out an In/Out referendum in the next term of Parliament. Blair was wrong about many things; he was an advocate
Italian authorities rescued over 1,500 asylum-seekers on Saturday. The work included four coastguard boats and an Italian navy ship.
The long-gestating Greek financial meltdown looks to be getting underway, as the socialist government makes a few final efforts to scare Europe into giving them more money and lays plans to nationalize the banks as they begin dropping out of the Eurozone.
National Front leader Marine Le Pen has pledged to offer the country a vote on continued membership of the European Union if she is elected President in 2017. The MEP, who is currently leading at 33 per cent of the
As if tensions between Greece and its creditors in Germany weren’t high enough already, a German TV host decided to create a convincing fake video of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis flipping Germany the bird.
“When I hear that we have to believe in the good will of President Putin,” said Donald Tusk in a recent interview, “I know that I am dealing with someone who is either naïve or hypocritical.”
The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the protection of Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in the Middle East from the depredations of the Islamic State. A call for the establishment of safe havens for ethnic and religious minorities in the Nineveh Plains is part of the resolution.
The European Union has responded with outrage after learning that Israel destroyed illegally built, EU-funded Arab settlements within Israel’s sovereign territory.
The European Union is set to allow travel Bulgaria and Romania join the Schengen area, so there are no passport controls between the countries and the rest of the EU. The move will mean that illegal immigrants who cross the
Nigel Farage attacked plans to create a fully functioning European Army, during a debate on the proposal in Brussels. The UKIP leader warned that the EU was “poking the Russian bear” in order to justify creating the new force. He
For the first time in the year since the conquest, Russian President Vladimir Putin explained in the documentary “Homeward Bound” the exact plan he concocted to capture Crimea out of Ukrainian possession. He also went into detail regarding how Russian soldiers prepared to rescue ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
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