At eve of French legislative elections, the European Parliament has lifted Marine Le Pen’s immunity from prosecution in a defamation case. A leader of Front National party, and the chair of the group Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) in the European Parliament, she lost a presidential election in May to the centrist Emmanuel Macron….
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Stockholm attack – Uzbek arrested
Last night it was reported that the suspected attacker was a 39-year-old father-of-four from Uzbekistan. The arrest was a result of a nationwide manhunt by police after issued a photograph of a lightly bearded man wearing a hooded top whom they wished to question in connection with the attack, which happened at around 2.45pm local time…
Dutch warn againt “jihadist travellers”
There are some 190 Netherlands nationals currently living in the territories under terrorist control, the Dutch intelligence AIVD reported. Even their children as young as nine may have combat experience and pose a threat upon returning to the country. The warning comes from the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), an intelligence agency dealing with…
Austria suggests refugee camps in Georgia
“We need refugee centers outside the European Union, which would be managed jointly with the UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency. Their location is not so important. It is important that they will provide protection, and that people, trying to enter Europe illegally, will be returned there,” – said Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Foreign Minister to Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Kurz…
The wreck of EU foreign policy
Anna van Densky, OPINION With flows of migrants from Libyan cost, the EU Southern Neighbourhood, ravaged by Islamic terrorists, and the defrozen conflict in the EU Eastern Neighbourhood with tanks moving along the vicinities in Donetsk, the EU foreign affairs Council, 6.2.2017, finds itself in the worst situation in years, if not in decades, since…
Tripoli: car bomb near Italian Embassy
A re-opened recently Italian embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli was not damaged by the car bomb explosion near the building. Two carbonated bodies of jihadists were found in the car cage. The stuff of the Embassy reported safe, although the sound of the blast was overheard in the entire vicinity. Some other vehicles were hit…
Europol: new terrorist threats
As the so-called Islamic State (IS) loses ground in the Middle East, the pattern of its recent terrorist attacks in Europe suggests that it has already adopted new tactics to attack the West. These developments are highlighted in the report Changes in Modus Operandi of IS revisited published today by Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre…
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