France Sends Gypsies Back To Romania – New Nicolas Sarkozy Immigration Policy – For the second day in a row, around 100 gypsies, otherwise known as Roma, were shipped off back to their native Romania. This is a move that has many government criticizers calling discriminatory. “We’re moving toward an official racism,” says Arnaud Montebourg, a socialist lawmaker.
08/3/2010
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Tags: gypsies, Immigration Policy, Nicolas Sarkozy
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Much of Greece’s cost-cutting measures have been targeted at the public sector, which employs far more people than official figures indicate. Now, the government has finally managed to count every person it employs.
07/27/2010
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Tags: civil servant, Greece
The number of people unemployed in Spain, which has the highest rate in the euro zone, fell for the fourth month in a row in July as the tourism industry hired workers for the summer, the government said today.
07/19/2010
— Filed under: Business, Society
Tags: Spain, unemployment
A strike by air-traffic controllers affected flights Wednesday across France, resulting in cancellations of 10 percent of scheduled flights from Paris’ main international airport, the civil aviation authority DGAC said.
07/15/2010
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Tags: fir-traffic, France, strike
An Italian hospice said a 42-year-old woman dying there represents Italy’s second case of human mad cow disease.
07/14/2010
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Tags: Italy, mad cow disease
Angry survivors demanded answers from organizers Sunday after 19 people were killed in a stampede at Germany’s Love Parade and officials announced an inquiry into how the tragedy unfolded.
07/13/2010
— Filed under: Crime, Society
Tags: Germany, Love Parade, tragedy
The Bulgarian Health Minister Anna-Maria Borisova has announced that 430 hospitals are not enough for 7,5 million people.
07/7/2010
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Tags: Bulgaria, Health Ministe, hospitals
Lawmakers in France vote Tuesday on a bill to forbid face-covering veils in all public places. asks Philippe Portier of the Sorbonne to explain the hotly debated anti-burka law
07/5/2010
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Tags: face-covering veils, France, lawmakers
A raid at the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Belgium by police investigating child abuse was «deplorable,» Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday.
The pope expressed his «closeness and solidarity in this moment of sadness, in which, with certain surprising and deplorable methods, the searches were carried out» in a letter to the head of the Belgian Bishops Conference, Andre Joseph Leonard.
Police were searching for documents related to allegations of child abuse, a spokesman for the Brussels prosecutor said Thursday.
The Vatican said Friday it was shocked by the raids, alleging that two cardinals’ tombs were violated in the raids in the town of Mechelen.
«We also express our regret at some of the infringement of confidentiality, that those victims on whose name the raid were conducted have the right to,» the Vatican said in its statement Friday.
The Vatican also reaffirmed its «strong condemnation of any sinful and criminal abuse of minors by members of the Church» and cited «the need to repair and confront such acts in conformity with the law and teachings of the Gospel.»
Police raided the headquarters of the Belgian Catholic Church and searched for important documents in relation to their
investigation into the abuse of children by church figures, prosecutor’s spokesman Jean Marc Meilleur said on Thursday.
The Catholic Church faces allegations of child abuse by clergy across at least half a dozen countries, including the pope’s native Germany, as well as Belgium, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands and the United States.
05/27/2010
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Tags: Belgium, Pope
A report released Monday by the International Committee of the Red Cross is calling on Israel to lift a 3-year-old blockade against Gaza, saying «the closure is having a devastating impact on the 1,5 million people» who live in the Palestinian territory.
05/22/2010
— Filed under: Society
Tags: blockade, Gaza, Israel, Red Cross
