To recap, the European Union is comprised of 27 sovereign nations in a common trading bloc, the purpose of which is to compete as a collective more effectively with the world’s economic powerhouses of the US, Japan and now China. It was born of the old “Common Market”. Of those 27 nations, 16 have chosen to also band together under a common currency – the euro. Responsibility... 

German Troops Nearly 80 percent of Germans oppose Berlin’s plans to hike the number of troops in Afghanistan, according to a poll released Wednesday on the eve of a major international conference. Four out of five Germans said they disagreed with a stronger military role for Berlin in Afghanistan, the survey by the independent polling institute Forsa indicated. Even among supporters of Chancellor... 

Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, one of Poland’s most prominent religious figures, is reported to have told an Italian Catholic news web site that the Holocaust was a “Jewish invention”. The bishop says his remarks were “taken out of context” however. “The Holocaust, as such, is a Jewish invention [invenzione ebraica]. We could just as well establish a day of... 

Decades of Conservative and Labour immigration policies have turned Britain into the world’s collective rubbish bin as new figures reveal that there are criminals from 160 different countries in UK jails. The total number of foreign inmates, all arrested in Britain after emigrating here and then committing serious crimes, is at least one out of every five prisoners, according to other figures released... 

Police in France have arrested Sosthene Munyemana, a Rwandan doctor wanted for genocide and war crimes. 45-year-old Dr Munyemana has been employed in a hospital in Bordeaux for the last eight years but he has been arrested on an extradition warrant from Rwanda. France and Rwanda have only recently restored diplomatic links between the two countries. According to AFP, France had earlier on in 2008... 

Bishop Richard Williamson He’s back. Holocaust-revisionist British Bishop Richard Williamson is giving interviews again, adding Israel-bashing to his opinion portfolio. He gave a 15 minute interview with a minor French politician known for anti-Zionist views, Pierre Panet, that was, posted in various French media, just in time to compete for headlines with Pope Benedict XVI’s synagogue... 

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel The legendary German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel once wrote: “The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.”. Students of military history tend to pay lip service to the importance of logistics, preferring to read about tanks and artillery, mass and maneuver, attack and counterattack. The reasons for that bias are easy to understand.... 

A device so complicated that “if it had not been discovered in 1901, no-one would have believed it possible” — this is the finding of a (relatively) new study of the famous Antikythera mechanism, dating from 150 BC. Found by chance by sponge divers in the wreck of a Roman vessel off the Greek island of Antikythera, it was at first presumed to be the inner workings of a sophisticated clock... 

Mr President, the horror of Haiti is shocking, and it is only human to feel compassion for the innocent victims of this natural disaster. All here are well paid and can afford to give. I will give my attendance allowance for today, if every other British M.E.P. will do the same. But our constituents cannot afford your generosity with their taxes. Globalism has destroyed our industries, the banks have... 

The great Islamic culture that all Europeans should try to copy/emulate A strictly secular European heavyweight, France is seeking to adopt the Islamic financial system just as a prelude to becoming a European center for Islamic economy, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported Saturday. Although no tangible moves have been made in this respect, the French government is determined to enact laws giving Islamic... 

Haiti Earthquake The European Union on Monday pledged nearly $200 million in short-term aid to help Haiti recover from the earthquake and is earmarking almost $300 million in longer-term assistance. Individual European countries have also pledged more than $100 million. European Union ministers meeting in Brussels agreed to boost support for Haiti, ravaged by a devastating earthquake that struck last... 

A rapprochement between Russia and Ukraine looks imminent after challengers Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko swept aside Ukraine’s pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, in Sunday’s presidential vote. Yanukovych, backed openly by the Kremlin when he last stood for president in 2004, and Tymoshenko, the onetime darling of the Orange Revolution, go into a runoff vote on Feb.... 

Viktor Yanukovych Opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych has a more than 10% lead over his closest rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine’s Sunday presidential election with 99.5% of the ballots counted. Viktor Yanukovych is a slavic patriot and pro Russia unlike Tymoshenko wich has been accused by some Ukrainian politicians to be Jewish. It is unclear if Tymoshenko is... 

All 21 reported cases of rape with aggravated assault — the highest number since records were started — in the Norwegian capital of Oslo last year were committed by “non-Western immigrants” and 90 percent of all rape victims were Norwegian women, police have announced. Oslo police spokesman Hanne Kristine Rohde defied the strictures of political correctness to release the figures in an interview... 

Spanish Communist Party MP Gaspar Llamazares turned into Osama Bin Laden The latest grotesque lie from the Washington–London axis of deceit over the Afghanistan and Iraq wars has been revealed with the news that a Spanish politician’s face was used in an official FBI photofit to portray Osama Bin Laden. The psychopathic liars responsible for the stories about Saddam Hussein’s “atom bombs,”...