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Geert Wilders: EU is not Israel's friend
Basking in the glow of his spectacular election showing in last week’s European Union (EU) vote, Geert Wilders, the head of the Dutch Freedom Party, told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview on Friday that the EU is “one-sided and always against Israel,” adding that “nothing will happen” if Israel “depends on the Europeans” to stop Iran’s genocidal...
EU conference on Migration and Integration kicks off in Berlin
How well is Europe coping with the integration of its foreign residents? A two-day EU conference in Berlin will discuss methods to monitor migratory trends within Europe.
For decades the nations of the expanded European Union, now comprising 27 countries, have wrangled over the integration of the EU’s 30 million foreign residents. The question: how to deal with those who try to enter what human rights...
England: The Peasants are Revolting
So far as I can tell from England, the American media gives little real coverage to events in the United Kingdom. Either events are not covered at all, or they are covered without enough context to give them meaning. I think this has been the case with the results of the European elections and the House of Commons expenses scandal that is said to have led to these election results.
The European Elections
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Elections - BNP wins its first seats in European Parliament
The British National Party achieved its most significant electoral breakthrough last night when it won two seats in the European Parliament.
In a result that hands the far-right party an international platform, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, clinched a seat in the North West and the party also gained a MEP in Yorkshire and the Humber.
The party had capitalised on the expenses furore during the...
Council of Europe pushes Belarus on "democracy and reforms", Belarus says "We are not a Banana Republic"
Ian Micallef, President ad interim of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities and a member of the Committee of the Regions, and the Council of Europe, found himself seated next to Yury Ambrazevich, Minister-Counsellor for Belarus’ Mission to European Communities, at the seminar, and the two talked quietly in between questions from the audience and while other speakers were assessing the situation...
Top French court inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy internet law
France’s highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.
The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy’s law, passed in April, which created the first internet...
European Jewish group alarmed by far-right gains
The European Jewish Congress, which represents Jewish communities across Europe, said winning seats in the European Parliament based on “racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic platforms” pointed to an erosion of tolerance.
Results of voting for a new European Union assembly showed that far-right parties in the Netherlands, Britain, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Romania posted significant...
High Risk of Terrorist Attack by Al-Qaida on Germany Before September Election
German intelligence agencies believe al-Qaida is planning attacks on Germans before the September 27 election in revenge for Berlin’s military mission in Afghanistan, SPIEGEL has learned. Firms in North Africa face particular risks, but an attack in Germany is also seen as possible.
German intelligence agencies believe al-Qaida is planning attacks on Germans abroad and possibly in Germany ahead...
EU: European Voters Know What They Don’t Want
Was it a swing to the right — or just a return to reality? The result of the EU elections is not some terrible portent of doom. Instead, it is evidence that voters reward populists like Geert Wilders, who are not afraid to address issues that other parties don’t want to touch.
There is always a certain amount of risk associated with any election. It is a truth recognized by dictators around the...
“European voters punish the left” says BBC
The BBC is lamenting the demise of a left-wing majority in the EU.
After the 2004 EU Elections parties ranging from right of center to far-right accounted for 49.5%.
Right now it looks like parties ranging from right of center to far right will account for 54.5%. This is a ten point shift. From 1 point below the left, to 9 points ahead of the left.
About 10% of the EU could now be considered right-wing...
Germany Highest Court Warns that EU’s Lisbon Treaty Destroys National Sovereignty
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has warned that the extraordinary powers contained in the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty overrides all national laws in Europe. The German court will shortly call for an ‘emergency brake’ provision to be included into the German constitution to prevent an EU dictatorship.
The development is all the more shocking because till now, Germany has been one of...
British National Party Launches its European Election Manifesto
The British National Party has today launched its official European Election manifesto for the 2009 elections.
A press conference held in Essex today, attended by numerous media representatives, was shown a new BNP TV production mapping out the significant advances in organisational structure in the party over the last twelve months. The video can be seen below.
BNP Rapid Expansion Campaign from BNPtv...
Germans are getting tired being the paymaster of the European Union
Germans who are usually calm and quiet about the European Union are starting to question the usefulness of membership, when there are 4 million unemployed. The guilt of WW2 is no longer a matter of debate, the European Union is abusing their power against all European citizens.
Is Germany getting fed up with Europe?
How could Germany be suspected of such restlessness when it has moved heaven and...
European Union to Force Britain to Accept Even More Asylum Swindlers
Britain will soon be forced to grant the right to live, work and claim benefits to tens of thousands of utterly bogus “asylum seekers” in terms of new European Union plans forcing this country to accept one in eight of all invaders who set foot in any of the 27 European Union countries and demand refugee status.
There is no upper limit on this figure – depending as it does on the actual...
Obama says Turkey needs to join the EU with full menbership
Turkey who has done absolutely nothing for Europe wants and beg to join the EU for economic benefit profiteering, Turkey is a muslim country that denied the holocaust of Christians Armenians. Turkey does not share European values and traditions, and yet Obama wants Turkey to join. America has not done anything special for Europe, the only thing Obama got is that he is the first black President of the...