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In a recent interview with Austrian media, populist Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache alluded to the effects of mass migration and demographic change saying his party continued to fight against “population exchange.”

PARIS (AP) — French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters as tens of thousands of people started marching in Paris Wednesday for May Day rallies under tight security. More than 200 arrests were made.

U.S. President Donald Trump could meet with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson during his state visit to the United Kingdom.

Swedish authorities have declined to deport a migrant who sexually assaulted 11 women in less than two weeks.

LONDON (AP) – A long-awaited inquiry opened Tuesday in Britain into how contaminated blood was used to treat thousands of people in the 1970s and ’80s, killing at least 2,400.

A total of nine prison officers were injured, including two with serious cranial trauma, after a migrant prisoner violently attacked them, leading to major complaints being lodged by the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union (SAPPE).

The dark stain of undiluted anti-Jewish hatred is consuming Europe and America, France’s most famous Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld warned on Monday.

Police in the French commune of Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyon made a shocking discovery over the weekend when they found a military-grade rocket launcher in the boot of a car.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The father-and-son leaders of an anti-immigration party were sworn in Monday as Estonia’s interior and finance minister.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities are investigating after police found thousands of litres (gallons) of harmful chemicals and gas containers stored in a depot in western Germany.

PARIS (AP) – The Paris prosecutor’s office says several people, including a minor, have been arrested on suspicion they were preparing an attack possibly targeting French security forces in the near future.

Stockholm residents have nothing to fear from Islamic State fighters, as they have returned from the Middle East to live peaceful, crime-free lives in Sweden — according to officials in the nation’s capital.

Any kind of Brexit will hurt the British people, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has claimed, in an interview in which he also praised Angela Merkel as a “lovable work of art” and recommended her for a top EU job once she steps down as the Chancellor of Germany.

The city of Paris has announced new measures to improve safety in low-income areas, including hiring security guards to patrol various public spaces.

Modern architects have begun circling the charred remains of Notre Dame, proposing that it should not be faithfully restored, but rebuilt with “contemporary” features such as a glass roof, steel spire, or even a minaret.

A radical group linked to the Islamic State has threatened an attack on the damaged cathedral of Notre Dame, or possibly another historic Christian building.

Earlier this week Moroccan police arrested 23-year-old Zouhair El Bouhdidi, claiming the radical Islamist was plotting a terror attack in the Spanish city of Seville.

Plans for a series of Islamic State terrorist attacks across Europe in emulation of the Bataclan massacre in Paris, France, have been revealed.

Recently revealed figures have shown that efforts to teach newly arrived immigrants the German language are struggling, with only half of the migrants passing basic language standard tests.

March of 2019 has been the first month in three years in which the Swedish southern city of Malmö has not had any reported shootings, according to police.

LONDON (AP) – The Ukrainian Embassy says its ambassador’s car was rammed twice while it was parked in front of the London embassy building. British police say they opened fire on the suspect’s car before detaining the alleged perpetrator.

A Muslim migrant from former Yugoslavia has been charged with uttering threats after an exchange with anti-mass migration MP Hanif Bali, whom he allegedly called a “dirty Arab”.

Italian police have arrested a Pakistani immigrant on charges of dealing narcotics, catching him in possession of 180 doses of heroin.

The parents of a young boy have received a fine from a German court after they prevented their child from going to school to avoid a trip to a local mosque.

A Norwegian CEO who ran poster campaigns trying to recruit young women to become “sugar babies” to older men outside university campuses has been charged with “public incitement to debauchery”.

Gardaí (police) in Ireland have updated uniform rules to allow officers to wear hijabs and turbans, describing the supposed lack of ethnic diversity in the force as a “ticking time-bomb” that could make immigrant communities “radicalise”.

PARIS (AP) — A fast-moving fire has ravaged a residential building on the northern edge of Paris.

HELSINKI (AP) – Estonian populists sealed a coalition deal with two other political parties Saturday in a bid to take power, more than a month after the general election.

DIAVATA, Greece (AP) – Hundreds of protesting migrants have clashed with police for a third straight day outside an overcrowded camp, with migrants throwing rocks at officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.

PARIS (AP) – Protesters from the yellow vest movement are taking to the streets of France for a 21st straight weekend, with hundreds gathered for a march across Paris, one of numerous protests around the country.

Pro-mass migration NGOs “shocked” at EU policies aimed at deterring illegal immigration have turned to Angela Merkel with a plea to open the bloc’s borders.

Germans are more unwilling than willing to defend NATO ally the United States should she be attacked by Russia, according to a YouGov survey.

The President of the Czech Republic has suggested that Brexit is the fault of the European Union, that Britain’s referendum on leaving the bloc should not be re-run for a decade, and that the British government under Theresa May is making itself increasingly ridiculous.

A mob of around twenty migrants in an asylum reception centre in Spain are said to have brutally beaten two security guards with sticks and rocks while threatening to kill them.

The Hungarian government claims a suspected Islamic State terrorist who entered Europe posing as a refugee was in possession of a pre-paid debit card from the European Union, and that the EU has issued 64,000 such cards to migrants. 

The Italian Senate passed the new legitimate defence bill this week, liberalising the previous self-defence code and allowing citizens more options to protect their homes from burglars and other intruders.