Source: Qantara By: Julia Hoffmann While the debate about Muslim integration in Europe sometimes seems dominated by fears and division, Berlin-based writer Julia Hoffmann highlights one German effort to help […]
Source: Qantara By: Susanne Kappe In the “Koran School” theatre project at the National Theatre of Mannheim, theatregoers get to know places and people in their town that they’re unlikely to have had much contact with before. Susanne Kappe reports It’s an intensive course on Islam and migration in […]
Source: Qantara By: Paul Hockenos In this essay, Paul Hockenos writes that it would be a mistake to dismiss Breivik’s hate-drenched tirades as the outpourings of a madman and points […]
Rfi. In a widely expected move, Francois Hollande has named his special campaign adviser Jean-Marc Ayrault to the post of prime minister in his first appointment as president since being sworn in Tuesday morning. who is Jean-Marc Ayrault?
Source: Spiegel International By Hubert Gude, Souad Mekhennet and Christoph Scheuermann A debate about violent Salafists has erupted in Germany after radical Muslims clashed with supporters of the anti-Islamic Pro NRW party during its recent election campaign. Three young Muslims who took part in a demonstration against the party […]
European antipiracy troops carried out their first air attack on mainland Somalia, strafing a beach from a low-flying helicopter and destroying pirates’ boats, fuel supplies and an arms cache. The […]
The long queues endured by passengers at British airports are as much caused by wind as they are by border control procedures, the Immigration Minister said today. Damian Green told […]
By Fareed Zakaria, CNN Everyone is looking at Europe these days as economic and political protests mount across the continent. The downward spiral has produced a great debate about the virtues of “austerity,” the idea that governments with large budget deficits must reduce these deficits -– mainly by cutting spending. […]
Former News International chief executive, her husband and four others charged in phone-hacking inquiry. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, has been charged over allegations that she […]
Russian TV: Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. By the “Russian world” […]
France24. François Hollande, the Socialist Party candidate who won the presidential runoff on May 6, has been officially sworn in as France’s new president. FRANCE 24 covers his first day with a live blog. Reference:
Rfi: Former far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday launched her bid to win election to France’s National Assembly next month from the northern French town of Hénin-Beaumont. She played down a challenge from hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who at the weekendannounced that he will oppose her there. Details. […]
Source: CNN The trial of admitted Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was disrupted Friday when a brother of one of the 77 people killed in last summer’s massacre threw […]
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says if the Greeks don’t like the rules they can leave, this is unfair and it won’t work. There is a ritual in European politics […]
eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk: The event began with a 10k run by serious competitors, but was followed by 2,500 fun-runners turning up, some in fancy dress, to raise up to £500,000. It was […]
Angela Merkel and François Hollande to have first face-to-face talks in Berlin after eurozone finance ministers meet in Brussels. Europe is braced for a crucial 48 hours of high-stakes summitry […]
A survivor of the Srebrenica massacre who was given chocolate by Ratko Mladic will be watching the general’s war crimes trial next week. What Izudin Alic remembers about that fateful […]
Two British servicemen have been shot dead by Afghan policemen they were training in Helmand, in the latest killing by local security forces of Nato allies. The soldier from 1st […]
Prime minister Mark Rutte told a television talk show on Friday evening he had pledged to decimate the anti-immigration PVV in a moment of weakness after Geert Wilders pulled out of austerity talks. The statement pledging to destroy the PVV came out of anger, Rutte told the Pauw & Witteman […]
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders is unable to turn his election promises into policy. Dutch publicist and former politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali made this statement on Sunday in a Dutch current affairs programme. Mr Hirsi Ali, who is known for being an outspoken critic of Islam, said: “He has a […]