Germany’s populist anti-establishment Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has called for tighter borders, a ban on the Islamic headscarf, and has promised to examine whether the country could ditch the euro currency.
The UK and Australia should create a free movement zone after Brexit as they share “western norms of behaviour”, former right-wing Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said.
Britain’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) recorded over 1,400 victims in 2016, up from 1,200 the previous year.
Article 50 could be triggered as soon as Tuesday, with Parliament finally expected to clear the Brexit bill this coming Monday, according to various reports.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government on Saturday withdrew landing permission for the Turkish foreign minister’s aircraft, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two NATO allies over campaigning for a Turkish referendum on constitutional reform.
Three months after the notorious ‘Jungle’ Calais migrant camp was cleared, there has been a huge surge in the number of migrants gathering in the area in the hope of illegally entering the UK.
BERLIN (AP) — Police have ordered a shopping mall in the western German city of Essen not to open after receiving credible tips of an imminent attack.
EU leaders clashed Friday over plans to build unity in the wake of Brexit, a day after a row with Poland over Donald Tusk’s re-election as the bloc’s president underscored deep divisions.
VIENNA (AFP) – An Austrian town on Friday banned a rally which a senior official from Turkey’s ruling AKP party was set to attend, in a growing international row over the country’s referendum campaign. The gathering was due to take
British citizens may be able to choose to keep certain aspects of European Union (EU) citizenship after Brexit, one of the bloc’s chief negotiators has said.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister on Friday defended a new refugee law that was criticized by the United Nations and human rights groups.
Britain’s super rich and top earners are the most likely to financially lose out when the UK leaves the European Union (EU), the government’s fiscal watchdog has said.
A dramatic video shows body cam footage of Swedish police being attacked in the no-go Stockholm suburb with Rinkeby and Tensta by residents using rocks and fists against the officers.
Unknown attackers launched a tear gas attack on a train in Hamburg that reports say has injured at least six and affected 50 people and led to a massive police presence at the Hamburg train station. At 6:55 pm Friday
A Sudanese migrant has been awarded compensation after the Court of Appeal upheld a ruling stating the government could not assume he was an adult merely by looking at him.
Czech President Miloš Zeman has confirmed he will run for a second term.
WARSAW (AFP) – Polish media on Friday underscored their country’s isolation in the European Union after the bloc’s leaders re-elected liberal Donald Tusk as president despite strident opposition from the rightwing government in his native Poland.
Xavier Bettel, who succeeded European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker as Prime Minister of Luxembourg in 2013, has told the British press it is not too late to say “we love you” to the European Union (EU) and stop Brexit.
BRUSSELS (AFP) – A year after the Brussels bombings, Belgium is more secure but it faces the threat of battle-hardened jihadi fighters returning home as Islamic State makes its last stand, interior minister Jan Jambon said.
France’s president and foreign minister have warned a French-Swiss cement firm against helping to build a southern border wall in the U.S., citing their “social… responsibilities”.
Millions of pounds of British aid is being spent to send migrants to “squalid” camps in Libya where they are regularly abused by guards, a watchdog has said.
PARIS (AFP) – The Paris region has passed a new rule obliging labourers on public building sites to use French, copying action taken elsewhere in France to squeeze out foreign workers.
Far from weakening the Environmental Protection Agency, Donald Trump needs to beef it up. Or so says a guy in the New York Times by the name of William D. Ruckelshaus, the former EPA administrator responsible for probably the blackest moment in the institution’s history.
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday voiced hope that Britain will one day return to the EU fold despite voting to leave.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says he will go to the Netherlands to address Turkish citizens despite Dutch authorities’ demands that he not show up for a rally there on the upcoming Turkish referendum.
Refugees who want to stay in the UK permanently after their five-year probation period is up will need to pass a “safe return review” before being granted leave to stay, under new guidelines issued by the Home Office.
In a BBC interview about South Korea, guest Robert Kelly, professor of political science at Pusan National University, was interrupted when one of his children casually walked into the room and started dancing.
There is still much dispute as to precisely what it was that persuaded 17.4 million Britons to vote for Brexit last year. Some may have done it to regain Britain’s sovereignty, some to curb immigration, some because they realised correctly that everyone on the Remain side of the argument from one-hit-wonder gobshite Bob Geldof to that preening renter of overpriced desert islands Richard Branson was a weapons-grade, copper-bottomed tick.
A bishop in the Church of England has been forced to decline a new appointment following an outcry from liberals opposed to his view on women priests.
Sweden’s environment minister has said reducing car numbers is a feminist issue as well as a matter of meeting carbon emissions targets, saying male drivers occupy space in Swedish cities ‘at women’s expense’.
An 80-year-old man has been attacked by an unknown suspect wielding a machete in a Dusseldorf car park only hours after a man with an axe injured seven people.
Feminist writer and professor of literature Ebba Witt-Brattström, who recently came second in Sweden’s “Woman of the Year 2017”, has advocated getting rid of all men on Swedish television.
With boat migrant arrivals in Italy already up significantly from 2016, European Union (EU) officials fear a deluge when Winter gives way to Spring.
Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister for foreign affairs and trade, has told the ‘Europe After Brexit’ conference that “we need an agreement between Great Britain and the European Union that does not lead to a deterioration of relations between Hungary and Great Britain.”
A suspected car bomb has exploded in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
The influx of unregulated waves of illegal immigrants poses a “huge security threat to Europe,” according to Hungary’s Foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó.
The unofficial anthem of England rugby, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, should not be sung by fans supporting the national team because it represents “cultural appropriation” of a traditional African American song created by slaves.
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Prime Minister Theresa May warned EU leaders Thursday that Britain would not keep paying “huge sums” into the EU budget after Brexit, as she expressed impatience to start the divorce.
Swedish police officer Peter Springare claims 10 of the 11 youths arrested during a school riot in the Swedish town of Hallsberg came from migrant backgrounds.
“Anti-establishment” parties which lie on the ‘radical right’ of the political spectrum enjoy the most support amongst young people in Poland, new research has found.
