EU opens new chapter in Turkey membership talks
By AFP – Jul 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES BRUSSELS — The EU opened a new negotiating chapter with Turkey on Thursday on its long-stalled bid for membership, a week after […]
Asian insects make a beeline for Switzerland
NASTY FOREIGN PESTS Asian insects make a beeline for Switzerland By Samuel Jaberg www.swissinfo.ch SEP 11, 2012 – 11:00 The Asian longhorn beetle arrived in Switzerland in wooden pallets Mountains, seas and deserts used to provide considerable barriers to the movement of plants or animals, but Switzerland has […]
Free movement of EU workers has worked for Switzerland – so far
By Anand Chandrasekhar JUL 5, 2016 – 18:00 Many of the workers involved in the Swiss project to build the world’s longest railway tunnel came from different EU countries (Keystone) A government report underscores the importance of Switzerland’s free-movement accords with the European Union – and offers Britain a potential […]
Eid 2016: When is it? How do Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan? All you need to know
Eid al-Fitr is one of the most important days in the Muslim calendar Jasmin Lavoie Ramadan will finish on 5 July this year for the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, marking […]
Switzerland: Muslim chaplaincy for asylum-seekers launched
Source: Swiss Info A one-year pilot project offering religious and spiritual guidance to asylum-seekers of the Muslim faith has been launched in Zurich. Christian and Jewish religious services of the […]
Why do BBC love to interview the view of Ahmadiyya sect about Islam when majority Sunni or Shia followers consider them as deviants and hate them?
Source. BBC The Ahmadiyya community tend to emphasize a certain openness and acceptance to their adopted countries traditions and customs as opposed to the mainstream Islamic sects. In fact, in the United States, an Ahmadiyya mosque is hosting an open July 4th barbecue close to the nation’s capital. In addition, they […]
Racism After Brexit Is ‘Celebratory’ And ‘Englishness’ Is Becoming Exclusively White And Christian, Says Expert
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 […]
Brexit: Osborne pledges to cut corporation tax
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 […]
Tory leadership: Theresa May says voters want more than ‘Brexit PM’
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 […]
Tony Blair: UK should keep Brexit options open
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 […]
Switzerland: Asylum seekers lose status over home visits
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 […]
Germany: Young Muslim takes on state on headscarf ban and wins
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 […]
Court fines Muslim father in latest swimming lessons row
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 […]
The expats whose pay fell 10% overnight
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 […]
David Cameron’s potential successors push for Brexit delay
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 […]
EU migration to Germany hits record high
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 […]
Duo defy first day of Ticino headgear ban
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 […]
Why Islam? The story of three female converts
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, […]
Austria presidential poll result overturned
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 […]
German court rules against headscarf curbs for students
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 […]