Source: BBC Sweden’s National Food Agency has issued a warning after as much as 20 tonnes of meat labelled as beef turned out to be coloured pork. An investigator at the agency, Pontus Elvingson, told the BBC that tests were still being done to […]
By Alessandro Speciale| Religion News Service, Published: October 19, 2012 Washington Post: VATICAN CITY — As a Vatican delegation prepares to leave for civil war-torn Syria, the Catholic Church’s fraught relation […]
Four years after Switzerland officially joined the European Union’s borderless Schengen zone and the Dublin accord on asylum, it has been revealed that costs of Swiss membership are almost 14 times what were originally mentioned. In June 2005, the cabinet announced that the costs “would amount in the coming years […]
Russian TV: The Public Chamber’s resolution on the draft bill on protection of believers’ feelings “does not reflect the community’s opinion,” a senior cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church has […]
Source: The Local The number of German men getting cosmetic surgery has more than doubled over the past five years, making one in every five patients male, the German association for aesthetic surgery (GÄCD) said on Thursday. Read More:
By Raffaello Pantucci, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Raffaello Pantucci is an associate fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College and the author of the forthcoming “We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Mujahedeen” (Hurst). A growing number of young Europeans drawn […]
Source: Spiegel: DPA German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande are at odds. Germany has a clear vision for the future of the European Union — but so does France. Unfortunately, the two concepts are radically different, and neither side seems interested in backing down. The conflict is […]
Source: The Local: A German dental practice which refused to hire a young Muslim woman because she insisted on wearing a headscarf at work broke the law, it was reported […]
Story Summary Pope Benedict XVI will send a delegation to Damascus to express his solidarity with the Syrian people, the Vatican said on Tuesday, as violence escalated with deadly air […]
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s economy minister condemned the European Union on Tuesday as the most hypocritical organisation in the world, in vitriolic remarks which underlined the EU candidate country’s growing alienation from Brussels. Turkey’s bid to join the bloc has virtually ground to a halt in recent years due to opposition […]
Global Post: ANTWERP, Belgium — Europe’s rising tide of nationalism swept over Belgium on Sunday when separatists seeking independence for the country’s Dutch-speaking north surged in local elections to take […]
New car sales in the European Union have fallen for the 12th month in a row in September, according to the region’s biggest carmakers. Demand across the 27 European Union […]
The mother of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon has welcomed Home Secretary Theresa May’s decision to block his extradition to the US. Janis Sharp said she was “overwhelmed” after […]
BBC: The medical director of the UK hospital where Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai is being treated has said doctors are “impressed with her strength and resilience”. Dr David Rosser said […]
Source: The Local: German employees are more likely than other Europeans to remain loyal to their companies and to stay longer on the job, a new study finds. More:
Source: The Local Around 2,000 people were evacuated from their houses on Monday night after a chemical accident in a food factory in Lower Saxony sparked a catastrophe alarm. More:
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
Christoph Bochinger, a professor of religious studies, sees no countertrend to secularisation, with the result that the churches have lost their role as leaders on matters relating to values and conscience. Interview by Matthias Herren “Swiss review”: The Catholic and Reformed Protestant Churches have steadily been losing members for decades. […]
The Swiss people’s relationship with religion is undergoing significant change. There are twenty times more Swiss with no religious affiliation today than forty years ago. Faith also plays a less […]