The eurozone economy performed marginally better than expected in the first quarter of the year but it wasn’t enough to prevent the single currency area from officially falling into a double-dip recession. The eurozone’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.6 percent in the first three months of the year, compared with the previous quarter….
Successful integration of refugees and migrants into their host society is at the core of the European migration strategy – at least, on paper. In reality their current living conditions show that they are far from meeting this objective. MIIR’s analysis on the refugee issue in Europe seeks to answer the question: “What are Europe’s plans for…
The European Union’s top official warned that the Brexit trade deal has “real teeth” and Brussels will not hesitate to take action if Boris Johnson breaches its terms. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said she hoped the EU would not have to use the measures contained within the agreement. But she noted the…
Biden’s curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low. Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016. Biden called Erdogan the day before making his announcement on Armenia. Photo: AFP/Kayhan Ozer/Turkey’s Presidential Press Service Over the weekend, President Joe Biden…
Debris from a dinghy that was supposedly carrying over 100 migrants are seen floating in the Mediterranean Sea northeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Thursday, April 22, 2021. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the rescue vessel Ocean Viking, said late Thursday that the wreck of a rubber boat, which was initially carrying around 130 people, was…
European affairs undersecretary says ‘we need to change the system.’ (ANSAmed) – ROME, APRIL 26 – Italian undersecretary for European Affairs, Enzo Amendola, told RAI’s Agorà program that “this is a present we need to change because there are no European missions, we are negotiating, the talks aren’t easy, we don’t like the agreement that…
Protesters demand more resources for public health system and against social inequality in the southern neighbourhood of Vallecas, Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. – Copyright Bernat Armangue/AP Public deficit and debt soared in the EU as governments massively supported their economies to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic, Eurostat said in a new publication on Thursday. Among other…
Asylum requests accepted by EU down 5%, Eurostat ROME – Nearly 17 child and teen unaccompanied migrants have vanished every day since 2018 in European countries including Italy, Greece, and Germany, according to an investigation by the Guardian published on Wednesday. The report by the Guardian and cross-border journalism collective Lost in Europe highlighted how…
Tareq Alaows stands in front of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in Berlin. Alaows came to Germany as an asylum-seeker from Syria in 2015. He launched a campaign to run in Germany’s federal election in September for the Green Party but recently withdrew his candidacy. —Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN — Tareq Alaows was hoping to become the…
As an antidote to the trivia which infests the legacy media, it was almost a relief yesterday to see a serious piece in the Guardian website for publication today in the Observer. Headlined, “Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption, and torture”, it tells the story of how armed Belgian police raids had “lifted the lid on a…