Left-wingers in Spain are angry that barely any of the huge number of migrants who entered Europe last year have chosen to come to their country. Nations along the main migrant route into the continent have been feeling the strain,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has refused to back down over her open borders migration policy, saying in a televised interview that there is “no point in believing that I can solve the problem through the unilateral closure of borders.” “I
The BBC has been accused of pro-European Union (EU) bias just one week into the referendum campaign. In a letter to the Corporation’s Director for News James Harding, Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said that certain major current affairs programmes were
Germany should accept half of all the migrants that enter the European Union, a left wing mayor has said. Boris Palmer, mayor of the city of Tübingen and member of the German Green Party, said that if other EU member
The European Commission is planning to slap down Hungary’s decision to hold a referendum on compulsory migrant quotas, claiming that holding a democratic vote would not “fit into the decision-making process” agreed by European Union (EU) states. The quota system
One of Britain’s most respected generals was furious after the Prime Minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street admitted it had mistakenly added his name to an anti-Brexit letter. The open letter was orchestrated by the Prime Minister’s office and signed
One of the big questions arising from today’s immigration statistics is how there can be 260,000 immigrants from the European Union (EU) over the past year yet around 650,000 National Insurance Numbers (NINos) handed to EU citizens. According to the
It may be for the greater good if Britain left the European Union (EU), a former Spanish Industry Minister has said. Britain’s renegotiation has left the EU vulnerable to other member states wanting their own concessions, and on balance it
Leaving the European Union (EU) would not necessarily damage the UK economy, a leading British businessman has said. Responding to yesterday’s letter in The Times from pro-EU business leaders, fund manager Neil Woodford said it was pure speculation whether leaving
The leader of the Dutch branch of the anti-Islamisation PEGIDA movement was arrested on Saturday for refusing to take off a child’s hat shaped like a pig. Edwin Wagensveld was leading a demonstration in the town of Ede against plans
A planned migrant centre in Germany burned down this weekend as onlookers cheered and tried to prevent the fire service from intervening. The former hotel in the town of Bautzen in Saxony caught fire on Saturday night, with officials reporting
Angela Merkel’s open invitation for over a million migrants to come to Germany last year was a “colossal mistake”, a renowned economist has said. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oxford academic Sir Paul Collier said that Merkel’s
Austria has expelled its first foreign-funded imam under new anti-extremism measures introduced in February last year. Imam Yakup Aynagoz, who was imam at the Ahi Evran mosque in the town of St Veit an der Göslen was ordered to leave
The European Union cannot cope with one more year of the migrant crisis, Denmark’s Prime Minister has said. Speaking to the media during British Prime Minister David Cameron’s EU negotiations yesterday, Lars Løkke Rasmussen warned that Europe was reaching breaking
More than 2,000 migrants are arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos every single day, even during the colder winter months. Authorities said yesterday that 6,000 people have arrived on the island during the past three days alone, despite bad
Up to 5,000 jihadis could be at large in Europe after returning from Islamic State training camps in the Middle East, the head of Europe’s police agency has warned. Europol head Rob Wainwright said that between 3,000 and 5,000 jihadis could
British air strikes in Syria have killed or injured just seven Islamic State fighters since they began in December. Estimates released by the Ministry of Defence show that by the end of January just four strikes by the Royal Air
The migrant crisis in Calais is now so bad that authorities are considering extending the Channel Tunnel by a third of a mile to stop migrants stowing away on trains to Britain. A section of track from the opening of
Almost half of schoolchildren in the Austrian capital Vienna speak a foreign language as their mother tongue, with the figure at one in five elsewhere in the country. The number of foreign nationals entering the country reached a record high
An anti-smoking ad has appeared around Moscow showing U.S. President Barack Obama smoking a cigarette, with the caption “Don’t smoke — don’t be like Obama”. “Smoking kills more people than Obama, although he kills a lot of people,” it adds.
Despite the efforts of European nations to tighten their borders, one million Syrian migrants are set to arrive in the continent over the coming year, a Middle East analyst has said. The figure would be double that of last year,
British Prime Minister David Cameron has adopted a “poisonous form of radical moral liberalism” in deciding to introduce gay marriage in 2014, a senior cardinal has said. Cardinal George Pell, who run the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy, criticised Mr
Inspectors are investigating at least 21 unregistered schools over fears they are radicalising students with “narrow Islamic-focused curriculums”. The “illegal” schools are under investigation after allegedly teaching extremist material to up to 50,000 children across Britain. Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary
Parts of Austria are reporting surging crime after Germany started turning away one in 10 migrants who try to cross the border. The situation is now so bad in one town near the border that passengers have asked officials to
European football’s governing body is set to penalise a Lokomotiv Moscow football player after he revealed a t-shirt depicting Vladimir Putin during a match in Turkey. Dmitri Tarasov caused considerable anger in Turkey after revealing the t-shirt, which shows a
The ringleader of the Rochdale child sex grooming gang has claimed he was convicted due to a conspiracy to “scapegoat” Muslims in Britain. Shabir Ahmed, 63, was convicted of multiple child sex offences in 2012, but has now written to
Around 550 angry local residents crowded a public meeting in Vienna this weekend in protest at plans to create a new migrant centre near their homes. Authorities plan to house 750 migrants in the suburb of Liesing, but residents are
Two men who were arrested in the Austrian city of Salzburg while posing as refugees have confessed to planning further terror attacks in Paris. The men were arrested at a migrant centre near the city on suspicion of belong to
Austria is set to introduce a daily cap on the number of migrants allowed into the country as it struggles to deal with record levels of immigration. The cap will apply to migrants crossing into the country from the border
The German government should consider “punishing” migrants who refuse to integrate into wider society, a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said. Julia Klöckner, who is running for president of the Rhineland-Palatinate region next month,
Two sisters have criticised Belgian doctors after they approved euthanasia for their sister just because she had broken up with her boyfriend. Lotte and Sophie Nys also allege the doctor who killed their sister was “callous” and “inept”, increasing their
Protests against a new migrant camp on the Greek island of Kos turned violent yesterday as police fired tear gas and clashed with local residents. The island’s 30,000 residents are becoming increasingly agitated at plans to build a sprawling new
Angry Britons have launched a petition calling for U.S. President Barack Obama to be prevented from speaking in the UK parliament on Britain’s forthcoming referendum on European Union (EU) membership. The petition on the Parliament website, which has so far
A local court dealt a humiliating blow to the mayor of the German city of Augsburg after overruling his attempt to ban the leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) from giving a speech, thus ensuring maximum publicity for the event.
The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party looks set to become the kingmaker in at least one German state after next month’s local elections. A poll for broadcaster SWR now puts the insurgent party in third place in Rhineland-Palatinate,
Practicing Christians are now a minority in Britain much like the persecuted Roman Catholic minority after the reformation, two senior clerics said yesterday. The Anglican Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Cardinal Nichols, said
The parliamentary constituencies of senior ministers, including Prime Minister David Cameron, are housing hardly any newly-arrived asylum seekers, despite the Prime Minister’s commitment to taking in at least 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next few years. Speaking to the House
The people of New Hampshire are “outright crazy” for voting for U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat contender Bernie Sanders, a former Swedish Prime Minister and foreign minister has said. After the primary results were announced, Carl Bildt tweeted this
Six weeks after the mass sex assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, the number of reported incidents continues to rise and has now surpassed 1,000. Ulrich Bremer of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office told German daily Die Welt they
The number of reports about potential extremists in the Danish capital Copenhagen has risen significantly in the past year. City authorities received 100 reports about potentially radicalised residents in 2015, a 66 per cent increase on the previous year. Copenhagen’s
