Opinion: EU migration pact has already failed
European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas likes to compare the EU’s proposed pact on migration and asylum to a house with three floors. The first floor consists of agreements to…
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‘Pride was Their Downfall’: How Muslims Routed Christians at Nicopolis
September 25, 2020 Today in history, on September 25, 1396, a major military encounter with Islam that demonstrated just how disunited Christendom had become took place. ‘); googletag.cmd.push(function () {…
EU farmers boss: Farm to Fork to be revised, if negative impact was proved
The European Commission’s new food policy should be reviewed if a future impact assessment shows that it will negatively affect farmers, the newly-elected chair of farmers association COPA, Christiane Lambert,…
OPINIONISTA: Holding on to the idea of the West, and the world that Europe created
Forget the actual persecution of Rohingya in Myanmar, the Roma in Europe, Latinos in the USA or people being put into veritable concentration camps, or bombed out of their homes and…
Unlike US, European countries tend to pick top judges with bipartisan approval on ideologically balanced high courts
Filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court immediately sparked a bitter partisan fight. But choosing judges for the nation’s highest court doesn’t have to be so polarizing….
European Christians will establish “settlements” in Hungary, PM Orbán says
Many Christians will likely migrate from Western Europe to Hungary and establish “settlements” there in the coming years, according to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. PM Orbán predicted a growing exodus…
WHO deploys help to refugees and migrants in Lesvos’s
In a catastrophic fire that broke out on 8 September 2020, the Moria reception and identification centre for asylum seekers and refugees on Lesvos, Greece, was burned to the ground. The world turned its attention towards the Greek island as some 12 000 refugees and migrants were left without shelter, food or access to health-care services. With 35 refugees and migrants having tested positive to COVID-19 a few days prior to the fire, the situation was particularly urgent, calling for immediate action and coordination.
Has COVID-19 destroyed the case for banning the burqa in Europe?
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown up an interesting paradox in European countries that have banned the full-face veil. In some French cities, for example, failure to cover your face and…
EU unveils plan to overhaul migration
New proposals to bring an end to overcrowded encampments of people living in desperate conditions on the fringes of Europe were unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday in a bid to…
EU climate plan blows hot and cold on forestry, biomass
While recognising the positive role of forests in mitigating global warming, the European Commission has riled the agroforestry and biomass industries by stating its intention of limiting growth in the…