Italian President Sergio Mattarella appointed the economist Carlo Cottarelli, a veteran of the IMF, as interim prime minister after the resignation of Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte. Mr. Conte’s resignation was prompted by the president’s veto of the Euro-skeptic Paolo Savona as economy minister.
In other news, the opening night of the annual theatre festival in Stratford, Ontario had to be cancelled after the venue received a bomb threat.
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30-Year-Old Man Evicted From Parents’ Basement Gets Job Offer With Starting Bonus
Last week we presented the story of 30-year-old Michael Rotondo of Camillus, NY, who for better or worse has come to embody all the worst stereotypical traits associated with the millennial generation, and who — representing himself in court after a “brief search on the internet” that “took minutes” — was ordered by a State Judge to move out of his parents’ house after a very short legal battle with his Mom and Dad, despite Rotondo vocal plea that he was “entitled” to six more months at his parents’ home rent free.
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Liberal Billionaire George Soros Spending Big Money in Local District Attorney Races
Top cops duking it out with progressive district attorney candidates in the June primary are facing another opponent: the deep pockets of George Soros.
The liberal New York billionaire and progressive organizations are throwing big money to challengers in Alameda, Sacramento and San Diego counties, according to campaign finance records.
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US Has No Interest in Hearing What Julian Assange Can Freely Say About Russiagate — Max Blumenthal
The rejection by ‘Russiagate’ investigators in the US to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shows that they are not interested in hearing him out, journalist Max Blumenthal told RT.
Assange, who is currently incommunicado in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, reportedly offered — through an intermediary — to talk to US investigators about the release of DNC documents by WikiLeaks during the 2016 US election campaign.
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Homeless Man in Custody Three Days After Brazen Downtown Attack That Left Librarian Dead
Ottawa police have arrested a homeless man who is believed to have known his alleged victim in the fatal daytime attack against Christian Science librarian Elisabeth Salm.
Tyler Hikoalok, 18, was arrested by police Sunday afternoon. He was expected to appear in court Monday where he will be formally charged with first-degree murder for the brutal slaying and sexual assault that put the downtown core and community on edge just days ago.
Salm, 59, a librarian at the Christian Science Reading Room, was found bloodied, beaten unconscious and half-naked inside the office of the drop-in space at 141C Laurier Ave. W., near Elgin Street, around 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
Salm was taken to hospital and kept on life support before succumbing to her injuries Friday. It was the city’s 13th homicide of the year…
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Opening Night of Stratford Festival’s 2018 Season Cancelled After Bomb Threat
STRATFORD, Ont. — The Stratford Festival says the official opening night of its 2018 season has been cancelled and all its buildings evacuated after a bomb threat.
Police in Stratford, Ont., say on Twitter that at about 6:45 p.m. Monday, they received a call that explosives had been placed at the theatre festival.
They say festival officials were immediately advised and the Avon and Festival theatres were evacuated as a precaution.
Police say officers are on scene conducting searches for suspicious items or packages.
Ann Swerdfager, publicity director at Stratford Festival, says in a statement that patrons, staff and artists for a performance of “The Tempest” left the theatre quickly.
She says all ticket purchases will be honoured and ticket holders for Monday’s performance will be contacted by festival staff.
Swerdfager says all of Tuesday’s performances, including the opening of “The Music Man,” will go on as scheduled with increased security.
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‘A Referendum on the Euro!’ Salvini Set to Turn Italy Election Into Showdown With EU Elite
THE Italian political crisis that has set off months of uncertainty could boost the anti-EU and anti-euro movements at the next elections, as the Italian electorate take aim at European institutions.
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Angela Merkel’s Ultimatum to Hungary’s Viktor Orban
According to information of Germany’s newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, Angela Merkel’s CDU party issued an ultimatum to Viktor Orban’s Fidesz. They have to meet two conditions in order to stay in the European People’s Party.
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Tory Brexit leader Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke out Sunday on the poor state of Brexit negotiations and called for the government to be more hard-nosed in dealing with the European Union in remarks which have again been interpreted as being targeted directly at the Prime Minister.
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Exclusive Pictures: Thousands Attend Berlin Alternative for Germany Populist Rally
BERLIN, Germany: An estimated 6,000 people came to Berlin to attend a rally of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) Sunday and were met with counter-protests from an estimated 25,000 leftist activists.
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First Greece, Now Italy, Portugal Next?
While most investors are focused on Italian politics — the parallel currency ‘mini-BoT’ fears and potential for a constitutional crisis — Spain is now facing its own political crisis amid calls for a no-confidence vote against Rajoy. However, ‘Spaxit’ remains a distant concern for investors as another member of the PIIGS peripheral problems is starting to signal concerns about ‘Portugone’?
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Hope Pro-EU Govt Soon — Germany
‘Can’t give lessons, it took us six months’
(ANSA) — Brussels, May 28 — German European Affairs Minister Michael Roth said Monday “we hope that Italy soon has a stable pro-European government”. He stressed that Berlin “must refrain from giving lessons on the formation of a government” since “after all it took us six months”.
Roth added: “Italy is a founding country of the EU, we have always been able to count on Italy as a country friendly to integration, with which we have worked very closely and with trust, and we expect that Italy will live up to this tradition in the future”.
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Italian President Asks Economist Carlo Cottarelli to Form Interim Government
President Sergio Mattarella has tasked a former IMF economist with trying to set up a new government in Italy, months after an election and a day after he vetoed a proposed finance minister.
President Sergio Mattarella has appointed Carlo Cottarelli, an economist previously with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as prime minister after meeting the 64-year-old at the presidential Quirinal palace on Monday morning.
Cottarelli will struggle to gain the approval of parliament with Five Star and the League commanding a majority in both houses — the parties are likely to oppose any potential government he can put together in a parliamentary vote.
After the announcement, Cottarelli said he would put together a government “very quickly.”
“I’ll present myself to parliament with a program which — if it wins the backing of parliament — would include the approval of the 2019 budget. Then parliament would be dissolved with elections at the beginning of 2019,” Cottarelli said. “In the absence of [parliament’s] confidence, the government would resign immediately and its main function would be the management of ordinary affairs until elections are held after the month of August.”…
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Italian Banks, Bonds Crash as Di Maio Calls for Protests Against “The Arrogance of Institutions”
Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio addressed the Italian nation on a live Facebook feed this afternoon calling for them to mobilize against the institution represented by President Mattarella and demanding a new election as soon as possible.
“We can not stand watching, we must react immediately firmly. Today he will hang an Italian flag out the window and ask you to do the same. We claim the pride of being Italian…”
“There are tons of lies. I have said throughout the electoral campaign that we do not want to leave the euro. Savona would not take us out of the euro, he would have asserted Italy’s interests in the EU headquarters “.
“On June 2nd I invite everyone to come to Rome for a great demonstration.”
Yesterday — with the “no” of the Quirinale to the binding of Lega and M5s on the name of Sardinian economist Paolo Savona — “was the darkest night of democracy”, he added.
“We ask to go to the vote as soon as possible. Even in August? As soon as possible”, he clarified at the end of the meeting in the Chamber with Matteo Salvini.
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Italian Bonds, Stocks Crash in Furious Reversal as Political Drama Explodes
Yesterday, in the aftermath of the latest Italian political drama, in which president Mattarella openly mocked democracy, and under pressure from Europe vetoed the choice of the euroskeptic economy minister, Paolo Savona, we warned that this outcome was even worse for markets than the one which most had dreaded, namely Mattarella folding and greenlighting the 82-year-old professor for reasons we laid out article from Sunday.
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Italy: Deal Reached for Grass-Cutting Sheep in Rome Parks
Agreement with Coldiretti for 20 green spaces in suburbs
(ANSA) — Rome, May 24 — Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi on Thursday presented an agreement the city has reached with farmers association Coldiretti that features the possibility of using sheep to cut grass in parks in the capital’s suburbs.
The council’s environment department has identified 20 green spaces where farmers will be allowed to cut the grass with their own equipment to take it away for feed or let the animals graze.
“This agreement aims to enhance the agricultural role of this city, which has 40 million square metres of green space and 40% with an agricultural vocation,” Raggi said.
“One of the initiatives regards the care of agricultural green spaces and countryside (on the outskirts), an area that is often abandoned to its fate.
“It features the cleaning (of the areas) via mechanical means and via grazing. “We won’t take the sheep to (the parks in) the centre of Rome but we’ll give them back areas that had been taken away from them — the Roman countryside”.
The idea of using sheep to cut grass in parks prompted ridicule from some critics of Raggi’s 5-Star Movement administration.
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Italy Robbed of Sovereignty, Disgusting — Bannon
Cottarelli another IMF technocrat
(ANSA) — Rome, May 28 — What has happned in Italy in the last 48 hours is “disgusting” but also “Fascist and anti-democratic”, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said at a meeting in Rome Monday. “Foreign powers, capital and media took away Italy’s sovereignty,” he said.
Pointing the finger at the “Davos globalist party,” Bannon said premier-designate Carlo Cottarelli was “another IMF technocrat”.
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Italy: Govt Bid Collapses After Mattarella Rejects Savona
President cites position in euro, risk of financial turmoil
(ANSA) — Rome, May 27 — Premier designate Giuseppe Conte on Sunday dropped his bid to form a 5-Star Movement/League government after President Sergio Mattarella rejected the nomination of Paolo Savona as economy minister.
The appointment of economist Savona, a former industry minister who has expressed Euroskeptic positions in the past, was a deal breaker for League leader Matteo Salvini and the anti-establishment M5S. Italy now faces the prospect of another general election after the inconclusive March 4 vote.
The head of State said he did not make the decision “with a light heart” but added that he could not approve the appointment of euro-exit supporter. “The uncertainty about our position in the euro has alarmed Italian and foreign investors who have invested in our bonds and companies,” Mattarella said. “The rise in the (bond) spread increases the (public) debt and reduces the possibility of spending in the social field.
“This burns away resources and the savings of companies and prefigures risks for Italian families and citizens, including for mortgages”.
Mattarella added that some parties have requested a new general election and that he would decide on the basis of developments in parliament. Mattarella is set to meet former spending review commissioner Carlo Cottarelli on Monday and he may be asked to form an interim government.
Senior members of the M5S are furious, with some talking of impeachment. M5S sources said that it is the “biggest fake new in history” that Savona has called for Italy to quit the euro. “I want a different Europe, one that is stronger but fairer,” Savona said in a statement on Sunday. “Wild controversy has been made out of my ideas. I believe in European political union”.
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Italy’s Next Government ‘Will Support UK Over Brexit’ Predicts Top Five Star Politician
Italian MEP Fabio Castaldo, a leading Five Star Movement politician and eurosceptic, has predicted that his party will be part of the next Italian coalition government and pledged his support for the UK after Brexit, saying it is a “matter of respect for democracy.
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Macron Lauds Mattarella’s ‘Responsibility and Courage’
‘Great spirit of responsibility’ in rejecting Savona
(ANSA) — Paris, May 28 — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday praised the “courage” and the “great spirit of responsibility” of Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
Macron said “I reaffirm my friendship and support for President Mattarella who has an essential task facing him, that of the institutional and democratic stability of his country.
“And that’s what he is doing with a lot of courage and great sense of responsibility”.
The Italian head of State, invoking the need to protect Italians’ savings from market turmoil, on Sunday rejected the League-5 Star pick for economy minister Paolo Savona as being anti-euro, ending the parties’ bid to form western Europe’s first all-populist government.
Mattarella then handed a mandate to former IMF economist Carlo Cottarelli to form an interim government to steer Italy to fresh elections — early next year if he gets parliament’s confidence or more likely after August.
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Markets Talk Instead of Italians — Grillo
Pseudonym of predatory capitalism in Italy
(ANSA) — Rome, May 28 — Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) founder Beppe Grillo said Monday the markets were speaking instead of Italians after President Sergio Mattarella effectively scotched an M5S-League government over fears of market turmoil due to an anti-euro economy minister pick. “I went out this morning and I saw this depressing thing, people not speaking, with empty looks on their faces, as if they had been replaced by an alien like in a sci-fi film,” he said. “Why aren’t people talking? Why are people depressed? Because they’re someone talking in the place of millions of Italians: the market. The market today is the pseudonym of the most depressing and predatory capitalism that we have in Italy.”
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Norway’s Emergency Services Battle With Forest Fires
Fire services in Norway are battling forest fires in various parts of the country were now under control.
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Polish President Urges Efforts to Improve US-Europe Ties
Efforts to improve relations between Europe and the United States are vital, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Monday during a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Warsaw.
“Ties between North America and Europe remain the key to ensuring the security of the Euro-Atlantic area,” Duda said. “Today, perhaps even more than ever, we should strive to improve the political climate in transatlantic relations,” he added.
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Premier: British Royal Family Hosts Palace Concert for Persecuted Christian Minorities
(PREMIER) — Accomplished singers from the Sistine Chapel Choir in Vatican City and Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal Choir have sung together at Buckingham Palace in support of persecuted Christians of all denominations.
Birgitte, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended the concert within the ballroom of the royal residence in central London.
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Sign the Change.Org Petition for Tommy
It is well over 400,000 signatures on Monday night.
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‘The Euro is Unravelling’ Investment Chief Warns That Europe Faces Huge Eurozone Struggle
AN INVESTMENT strategy chief has attacked the future of the eurozone, following the collapse of the prospective Italian government, claiming that European attempts to stabilise the currency were unravelling.
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UK: 100-Year-Old Woman Left With Broken Neck After Being Knocked to the Ground by Muggers
A 100-year-old woman was left with a broken neck after being knocked to the ground by muggers who took her handbag.
The centenarian had her green handbag stolen at 8.30am today near the junction of St Chad’s Road and Empress Road in Normanton, Derbyshire, police said.
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A female former police chief at the centre of a sex discrimination case that led to a £870,000 payout to a colleague she ‘bullied’ is now giving speeches on ‘how to combat white male culture in the workplace’.
Former Met Police deputy assistant commissioner Maxine de Brunner is available to hire for public speaking events on topics including diversity and leadership.
One of her lectures is titled ‘How thin is the glass?’ and focuses on the challenges she faced rising through the ranks of the Met and the ‘unconscious bias’ she fought against from inside the organization and the media.
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UK: Police Prepare for Muslim Extremist Clashes on Anjem Choudary’s Release
An Islamist preacher accused of inspiring a generation of British jihadists will be released from prison within months, and concern is mounting within police forces and MI5.
Anjem Choudary, 51, who was jailed in September 2016 for urging Muslims to support the terrorist group Isis, is expected to be released on licence in October.
‘Anti-terrorism officials at Scotland Yard are concerned Choudary’s release will heighten community tension, given his history of radicalising young Muslims and agitating far-right groups. “It is likely to encourage some of his followers to become more vocal and defiant in their extremist behaviour,” a Scotland Yard source said. “The police are watching far-right and Islamist networks around the country, and we’re reassuring the Muslim community that we’re taking pre-emptive steps to clamp down on disorder.”
It all makes sense now;)
(Note — full article is behind paywall — sorry)
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UK: Vegan Extremists Threaten to Fire Bomb Butchers as Activist Attacks Increase
Staff at a family-run butcher shop in Kent are “living in fear” after vegan extremists threatened to firebomb the business as attacks by animal liberation activists are on the rise.
Marlow Butchers in Ashford, Kent, was first attacked earlier this month when activists covered the shop front in red graffiti including the logo of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a leaderless “direct action” animal rights extremist group founded in the UK in the 1970s and deemed by the U.S.’s FBI as part of the “eco-terrorist movement”.
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UK: You’re Not Allowed to Talk About it. About What? Don’t Ask.
“I am in a country that is not free… I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don’t know how lucky you are.” — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.
“I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a ‘crime’ which cannot be reported on.” — Gerald Batten, UKIP member of the European Parliament.
“UKIP Peer Malcolm Lord Pearson has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid today saying: if Tommy is murdered or injured in prison he and others will mount a private prosecution against Mr Javid as an accessory, or for misconduct in public office.” — Gerald Batten.
Good on Lord Pearson.
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Tommy Robinson is in prison.
It’s an emergency — we need your help.
But there’s a court-ordered publication ban over the circumstances of his imprisonment.
That gag order only applies to the UK, though — and I’m writing to you from North America, where there is still some freedom of the press left.
Please read this carefully, as it has information that the British media are prohibited from publishing.
[Comment; Read the whole thing. The article proposes a way to assist Tommy Robinson.]
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What’s Next for Italy After Proposed Populist Government Collapses?
The failure of Italy’s populist forces to form a government after President Sergio Mattarella refused to endorse their eurosceptic pick for economy minister has propelled the country into a political crisis, with the only outcome appearing to be early elections.
However, going back to the polls presents Italy with a range of problems, from the upheaval of old political alliances to the possibility of a new electoral system being put in place.
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Work With All But There Are Principles — Merkel
There were problems with Tsipras but we made a deal
(ANSA) — Berlin, May 28 — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday “we want to collaborate with all governments but there are also principles in the eurozone. “Obviously there will be problems,” she said. “Also at the time, with Tsipras’s Greece, there were problems, and then we made an deal.
“We worked for many, many nights to arrive at an accord. It is worth it…Italy is an important member of the EU”.
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Algerian Blogger Sent to Prison for Interviewing Israeli
An Algerian blogger has appealed a 10-year prison term imposed on him for interviewing an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, his lawyer said on Sunday, according to AFP.
The blogger, Merzoug Touati, was convicted on Thursday of providing intelligence to “agents of a foreign power” likely to damage Algeria, by a court in Bejaia, east of Algiers.
The 30-year-old blogger submitted his appeal the following day and was feeling “optimistic”, his lawyer Boubakeur Esseddik Hamaili said.
“I have seen my client, he is doing well and is a tower of strength. He proclaims his innocence as he has done nothing but exercise his rights guaranteed by the constitution,” the lawyer added.
Touati has been in prison since his arrest in January 2017 over an online video interview with an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman. He was also under arrest for a Facebook post in which he called for protests against a new financial law, reported AFP.
During his trial the court dropped three additional charges including incitement against the state, which his lawyer said carries the death sentence.
The 10-year jail term was described as “utterly shocking” by Amnesty International, which said Touati had been convicted “solely for expressing his peaceful opinion online”.[…]
[So Amnesty International, please explain to us why this is any different to Tommy Robinson imprisoned in UK? Is it because Tommy is a political infidel? a blaphemer of the sacred ‘way’ of socialism?]
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Belmont Club on China’s Vigorous Espionage
China made the headlines in espionage news today. The Times of London reported that two French intelligence officers in the equivalent of MI6 have been charged with treason for passing information to China. Yet Beijing has a knack for staying below the fold. As David Wise in the New York Times noted “with all the focus on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the damage done by China’s vigorous and continuing espionage against the United States has taken a back seat.”
Lost against the background of the Snowden defection, Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine and Syria and the beating to death of a Russian media czar in Washington DC is the memory one of the major fiascos of the Obama administration: the rollup of the CIA’s agent network in China. The New York Times reported in May 2017 that “the Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.”
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Current and former American officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades. It set off a scramble in Washington’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies to contain the fallout, but investigators were bitterly divided over the cause. Some were convinced that a mole within the C.I.A. had betrayed the United States. Others believed that the Chinese had hacked the covert system the C.I.A. used to communicate with its foreign sources. Years later, that debate remains unresolved.
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Terrifying footage of the attack in Melbourne shows the truck driver charge at Ms Mahady while he brandishes a hammer after running them off the road. He then stood over Ms Mahady.
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A schoolteacher involved in the terrifying road rage incident spoke up about what had occurred when a truck driver rammed into her car and proceeded to attack her and her friend with a hammer and a stick.
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Austria Doubles Down on Benefit Cuts for Foreigners
VIENNA (Reuters) — Austria’s right wing coalition government on Monday doubled down on plans to cut benefits for foreigners including refugees, risking fresh legal challenges and opposition from the rest of the European Union.
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BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s chancellor says European border guards should be allowed to go to North Africa to prevent migrants from setting off across the Mediterranean Sea in rickety boats.
Austria will take over the European Union’s rotating presidency in July. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s governing coalition took office in December after a campaign in which both partners talked tough on migration.
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Greece: Kurds Attacked and Called ‘Infidels’ For Not Fasting on Ramadan — 10 Critically Injured
The Greek island of Lesbos was turned into a battlefield on Friday, as Islamists attacked a group of Kurds for not fasting during Ramadan. They were accused of being “infidels”.
According to the Kurds, a group of Arabs holding ISIS flags, attacked the Kurds living in the Moria refugee camp. The reason was that some Kurds did not keep the Ramadan conventions.
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New Swedish Party: Islam Does Not Belong in Sweden — Immigration is Destroying Our Society
With its protests and revolutionary public rallies, the Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party is gaining a lot of attention. The new party, founded by Gustav Kasselstrand in March this year, has a hard-line stance on migration and Islam.
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Scottish Government Report Recommends Tax Breaks… for Migrants
The government should offer generous tax breaks to encourage prospective immigrants to move to Scotland, according to a Scottish National Party (SNP) report declaring mass migration-driven population growth a “top priority” for the country.
Published on Friday by the Sustainable Growth Commission, set up by the SNP government to assess the economics of independence, the report proposed a ‘Come to Scotland’ package of measures to increase immigration.
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Syrian Refugee Commits 400 Crimes Since He Arrived in Germany in 2015
Hatem H was 19-year-old when he came to Germany, in late 2015. Since he first appeared German soil, he committed no less than 400 crimes.
He arrived in October 2015 and since then he lived in Plauen. Just a month after his arrival, he became member of the “tunnel gang” of Plauen. The gang is named after Plauen’s city centre, also called “tunnel” and consists mostly of migrants.
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Who the heck is Angela Merkel? How can xe blackmail other countries into xer will? Is xe the new Hitler?
Yes.
What pray is “xe” or “xer”? Are you an SJW gender nut? If so what are you doing commenting on Gates of Vienna?
As for Italy, the EU will simply pull the Greece scenario out of the drawer.
It worked like charm back then so why not now.
Wrong. I hope they do that. These scenarios work only once. The opposition studies them. If they pull a Greece on Italy, it will be utter failure. Also look at the size of Italy. If they do that, it means that things are really dire for them, and they are out of ideas.
“Macron said “I reaffirm my friendship and support for President Mattarella who has an essential task facing him, that of the institutional and democratic stability of his country.” The Italian head of State, invoking the need to protect Italians’ savings from market turmoil, on Sunday rejected the League-5 Star pick for economy minister Paolo Savona as being anti-euro”
I mean – is not DEMOCRACY a big joke lately?
What percentage of Europeans wanted mass migration? Since 1960’s – an absolute minority. Well – there you have it against the will of the People…
What about the attack on Iraq? How many people supported it? Or Lybia? – Well, there you have it against the will of absolute majority of the people…
Or who wanted to spend billions of government-issued Euros on “green technology” like solar and wind, which are said to never return on the investment for being too incompetitive when compared to the “traditional” gas and coal and nuclear? – I mean, who would vote for these far reaching public policies based on Man Made Global Warming lie?
Democracy is dead and burried in the EU, but leaders like Macron keep talking like its still alive…
“The government should offer generous tax breaks to encourage prospective immigrants to move to Scotland, according to a Scottish National Party.”
Yeah right, Scottish National Party – are they the ones who want to leave United Kingdom and enter the Union of European Socialistic Republics instead?
Shouldn’t they be called Scottish International Party then?
Italy, as well as other European countries, are all confused what to do, not knowing wrong from right, going back is as good as going forward.
The only thing that’s clear in their rotten treasonous brains is :
HOW TO SURRENDER THEIR CONTINENT TO MUSLIMS.
What is missing now in Italy is a good terrorist attack. One similar to what we have seen many times in other countries of ZEuRO-pa (where usually all the muslim attackers are well known by the police and intelligence agencies). Then we can raise the level of alarm to maximum degree and bring the country into a permanent state of emergency, similar to France. In that case all the power will be given to the President, and next election polls can wait forever or as long as they want. No need to vote ever and ever again against all the unelected EUcratic parasites. No need of useless referendum. No need to impress the international markets.
Just wait and see if I am not wrong.
I’m with you
Do Europeans have the courage of killing an ant let alone George Soros, who has planned to destroy Europe by replacing its population with muslims?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/966483/george-soros-remain-campaign-best-for-britain-manifesto-launch
How could one treacherous creature wreak so much havoc and no one is aware or dare destroy him?