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Turkey Flooding Europe with Migrants
By October 10, 2019 Read More →

Turkey Flooding Europe with Migrants

Greece has once again become ‘ground zero’ for Europe’s migration crisis. More than 40,000 migrants arrived in Greece during the first nine months of 2019, and more than half of those arrived during just the past three months.

Posted in: Europe, Migration Crisis
Italy: Salvini Out, Migrants In
By September 28, 2019 Read More →

Italy: Salvini Out, Migrants In

Italy’s new government, which has pledged to reverse former interior minister Matteo Salvini’s hardline approach to migration policy, appears to have triggered a new wave of mass migration from Northern Africa.

Posted in: Europe, Italy
Italy: Salvini Down but Not Out
By September 10, 2019 Read More →

Italy: Salvini Down but Not Out

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy premier and interior minister since 2018, has been shut out of the Italian government after his gambit to force snap elections to become prime minister backfired.

Posted in: Europe, Italy
Europe: “Mediterranean Taxis” for People-Smugglers
By August 27, 2019 Read More →

Europe: “Mediterranean Taxis” for People-Smugglers

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has accused European non-governmental organizations of coordinating with human trafficking mafias to pick up migrants off the coast of Libya and transport them to Italian ports.

Posted in: Europe, Italy
Spain: Law on Citizenship for Sephardic Jews Ends in Failure
By August 19, 2019 Read More →

Spain: Law on Citizenship for Sephardic Jews Ends in Failure

A piece of much-heralded legislation to grant Spanish citizenship to up to 3.5 million descendants of Jews expelled from the country in 1492 is about to end in failure.

Posted in: Europe
Germany’s Pro-Iran, Anti-Israel Foreign Policy
By August 11, 2019 Read More →

Germany’s Pro-Iran, Anti-Israel Foreign Policy

A senior German diplomat appointed to head an EU barter system that would enable European companies to sidestep U.S. sanctions on Iran stepped down after giving an interview in which he criticized the existence of Israel and praised Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

Posted in: Europe
Turkey Threatens to Reignite European Migrant Crisis
By July 31, 2019 Read More →

Turkey Threatens to Reignite European Migrant Crisis

Turkey has threatened to re-open the floodgates of mass migration to Europe unless Turkish nationals are granted visa-free travel to the European Union.

Posted in: Europe
European Union: A Massive Expansion of Top-Down Powers
By July 23, 2019 Read More →

European Union: A Massive Expansion of Top-Down Powers

Former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly confirmed as the next President of the European Commission, the powerful administrative arm of the European Union.

Posted in: Europe
Iran’s Growing Role in Yemen
By April 11, 2019 Read More →

Iran’s Growing Role in Yemen

The ongoing war in Yemen has increased the Houthis dependence on weapons and financial support from Iran, whose position in Yemen is stronger than ever.

Posted in: Geopolitics
Europe: The Islamization of Christmas
By December 24, 2017 Read More →

Europe: The Islamization of Christmas

This year’s Christmas season has been marked by Islam-related controversies in nearly every European country.

Posted in: Islam in Europe
Austria: New Government to Resist “Islamization”
By December 17, 2017 Read More →

Austria: New Government to Resist “Islamization”

Austria is poised to become the vanguard of Western Europe’s resistance to mass migration from the Muslim world.

Posted in: Austria, Islam in Europe
“Czech Donald Trump” Wins Landslide Victory
By October 22, 2017 Read More →

“Czech Donald Trump” Wins Landslide Victory

Populist tycoon Andrej Babis and his Eurosceptic political party have won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election.