The Huffington Post June 29, 2016 The country has become ‘more racist in terms of its public culture’. 02/07/2016 21:11 | Updated 18 hours ago 1.4 K Louise RidleyAssistant news editor at The Huffington Post UK The UK is seeing a surge of “celebratory racism” after the vote to leave […]
Source: BBC George Osborne has pledged to slash corporation tax to encourage businesses to still invest in the UK following the EU referendum vote. In an interview with the Financial […]
Source: BBC Theresa May has rejected rivals’ claims that the next Tory leader must have supported a Leave vote in the EU referendum – saying people want more than “a Brexit prime minister”. The home secretary promised to bring the Remain and Leave sides together and “govern for the whole […]
Source: BBC Former prime minister Tony Blair has said “we should keep our options open” on the UK leaving the European Union. He told the BBC the 48% who had […]
IMMIGRATION Asylum seekers lose status over home visits JUL 3, 2016 – 11:07 Anyone applying for asylum in Switzerland is not allowed to return to their country of origin. If they do so, they risk losing their recognised status as a refugee (Keystone) Almost 200 asylum seekers lost their official […]
Young Muslim takes on state on headscarf ban and wins Source: The Local Published: 01 Jul 2016 A 25-year-old lawyer has taken on the state of Bavaria over its attempts […]
Photo: P Cutler Court fines Muslim father in latest swimming lessons row Published: 30 Jun 2016 08:59 GMT+02:00 A Muslim father was fined in Switzerland on Wednesday for refusing to allow his daughters to take swimming lessons at school, in the latest case exposing the challenges of integration in the […]
Source: BBC By Alina Dizik When American expat Katie Sidell pays her student loan bill this month, she’ll likely be parting with a bigger cut of her take-home pay. The […]
Source. Arab News Justice minister Gove, who torpedoed fellow anti-EU campaigner Boris Johnson’s leadership hopes on Thursday, also said he would pull Britain out of the single market, end free movement of people and impose a new immigration system favoring skilled workers. Gove’s rival and the current favorite in the […]
Source. ET BERLIN: Immigration to Germany from other European Union countries hit a new record of over 685,000 people last year, led by Romanians, Poles and Bulgarians, Die Welt daily said Saturday, citing official figures. A total of 685,485 EU citizens arrived in Germany in 2015 while 303,036 left for a […]
PROTEST STUNT Duo defy first day of Ticino headgear ban By Stefania Summermatter JUL 1, 2016 – Nora Illi on the streets of Locarno in defiance of the headgear ban (Ti-Press) A Swiss woman, who has converted to Islam, and a French-Algerian businessman are facing fines after defying a new […]
RELIGION AND GENDER Why Islam? The story of three female converts By Sibilla Bondolfi JUL 1, 2016 – 11:00 Nora Illi, an officer of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland (ICCS), at an event in May 2010. (Keystone) With a burka ban coming into force in part of Switzerland on Friday, […]
Source: BBC Austria’s highest court has annulled the result of the presidential election narrowly lost by the candidate of the far-right Freedom Party. The party had challenged the result, saying […]
Source: Arab News BERLIN: A court in Bavaria has ruled against restrictions on wearing headscarves for law students who are undergoing practical training in the justice system in the German state. The Augsburg administrative court upheld a complaint by a 25-year-old Muslim student who was told that, under Bavaria’s 8-year-old […]
By Riham Alkousaa and Maximilian Popp Konstantinos Tsakalidis/ DER SPIEGEL Refugee Mesut Mahmud The closure of the Balkan route has left tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece with nowhere to go. Smugglers who once profited from sneaking migrants deeper into Europe are now offering a new service: A […]
Photo: DPA. Published: 24 Jun 2016 Don’t let the German bureaucracy scare you. We’ve summarized what you need to know to become an authentic German – or simply to stay in Germany permanently. Can you pass the German citizenship test? (23 Sep 14) Kids of non-EU migrants given dual citizenship […]
Source: BBC European Union leaders are meeting on day two of what has become a crisis summit in Brussels, but without the UK after its vote to leave the bloc. […]
Source: BBC Turkey has observed a national day of mourning after a gun and suicide bomb attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk airport killed 42 people, including 13 foreign nationals. Three attackers […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Leaders of Britain’s main faith communities have united in condemning intolerance amid mounting reports of xenophobic and racist abuse in the wake of […]
Source. A Times. ISTANBUL–After months of gloomy political isolation in the Middle East, this week saw moves in a single day to restore Turkey’s relations with both Israel and Russia, […]