Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has blocked individual German states from rescuing migrants from Greek refugee camps. The state governments are up in arms and are considering legal action. Several of Germany’s 16 states are considering banding together to defy the … Read More
BOLOGNA — As monetary and fiscal authorities have acted aggressively to blunt the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact, public debt and central-bank balance sheets have swelled rapidly. In the European Union, this trend is compounded by a new 750 billion euros … Read More
Priti Patel and Gerald Darmanin signed an agreement to share intelligence in the fight against migrant traffickers trying to cross the Channel. AFP The British government on Sunday appointed a former Royal Marine to lead efforts to tackle illegal migration in … Read More
Getty Images The European economy has fallen into its worst recession on record as strict quarantine measures earlier in the year to stop the spread of the coronavirus brought economic activity to an abrupt halt. According to figures released on Friday by … Read More
Collage sources: EU Website NEW YORK (IDN) – Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is a play featuring two characters waiting for a character, Godot, who never arrives. As such, it is a useful metaphor for the goings-on of the European … Read More
Berlin wanted to accept 300 migrants from Greek islands but the German federal government has denied such a request for the first time. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, of the Christian Social Union (CSU), denied on Thursday a request from … Read More
Only 38 percent of expelled people eventually returned to their country of origin or to the country from which they traveled to the EU. In the European Union, less than 40 percent of expelled illegal immigrants eventually return to their … Read More
Police in Murcia are still looking for 45 escaped migrants from the group of 454 migrants, of which 34 people tested positive for COVID-19 Since Friday, 435 migrants from Africa have arrived at the Spanish coast in small boats, with … Read More
Donald Trump, in his address on energy and the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas on Wednesday, said that by imposing these punishing restrictions — and beyond restrictions – “the Washington radical-left, crazy Democrats” would also send countless American jobs, factories, … Read More
The European Union’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (pictured) expressed confidence at a closed-door meeting with member state envoys to the bloc last Friday (24 July) that a new deal with Britain was possible, diplomatic sources have told Reuters, write Francesco Guarascio, Gabriela Baczynska. His … Read More