Belarus has taken the innovative and dramatic step of allowing visa-free travel to countries such as Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, and South Africa. This move is an open invitation that could result in hundreds of thousands using Belarus as a transit country into the rest of Europe.
In 1979, the British far-right anti-immigrant party National Front was poised to make massive gains in the general election. Tory Party contender Margaret Thatcher, disregarding the fact that more migrants had poured into the UK under Conservative party office than Labour made an anti-immigration speech that anti-migrant Enoch Powell would have applauded. Consequently, the Tory swept in – and so did millions of migrants.
Battling to thwart Brussels open gates policies Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government moves to protect Europe’s borders beyond Hungary by repeatedly sending Hungarian police to neighbouring Balkan countries to stop the flood of migrants fleeing from NATO conflicts.
The obligatory references to ‘freedom and democracy’ from Western leaders to mark the 20th anniversary of 9-11 seemed particularly hollow this year bearing in mind what is currently being rolled out in the countries they rule.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced a billion-dollar military purchase from Russia and called for the EU to abolish its sanctions on Belarus in a sign that tensions will remain heightened between Belarus and neighbouring countries.
Within a single decade, the number of Norwegian municipalities that spend more than half of their social assistance budget on people with an immigrant background has grown from 17 to 123. At the same time, the amount of social assistance paid to the same demographic has more than doubled, reaching $460 million.
Tens of thousands of anti-regime activists took to the streets of the French capital on Saturday to voice their discontent with the coronavirus health pass policy for the ninth weekend in a row. The protest quickly descended into clashes with police. As usual, the few media that did cover the events downplayed the news.
Italy, a Somali with a knife attacked people on a bus In the Italian city of Rimini, a man was detained after he stabbed five people. This was reported by the ANSA agency. The vicious migrant vs. ethnic-Europeans is just one of a string of similar attacks, most unreported, carried out in the west European Union.
The crisis in Afghanistan is associated with an attempt by the United States to impose its values on this country, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now, when the organisers of this experiment ‘hastily retreat,’ the entire world community is left to disentangle the consequences, he said.
Hungary and Serbia will keep defending European borders from successive migration waves even if neither help nor gratitude is forthcoming from those who receive the protection, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after a joint meeting of the two countries’ governments in Budapest.
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