Crime by EU migrants trebles — and we still can’t throw them out
Britain is suffering an explosion in crimes by EU nationals, who are amassing more than 2,700 convictions every month.
Further curbs on non-EU migrants to UK proposed
Skilled migrants from outside Europe are to be banned from having a further 70,000 jobs, including as vets and orchestral musicians, under the latest revision of Britain’s shortage occupation list, published on Monday.
08/30/2011
— Filed under: Society
Tags: non-EU migrants, rules, UK
EU parliament president says the world ‘has changed for the better’ after 9/11
Parliament’s president Jerzy Buzek has warned that the threat of terrorism will not end with the death of Osama bin Laden.
08/29/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: EU parliament, terrorism
EU Commission urges varied approach to budget cuts
The European Union economy is likely to grow around 1,9 percent next year, roughly the same as this year, the European Commission forecast on Monday, and it urged those countries that have fiscal room to manoeuvre to use spending to support growth.
08/28/2011
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: budget, cuts, EU Commission
Paris, Berlin lay down plans for EU transaction tax
France and Germany are piling more pressure on the European Union to approve a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), a measure that is met with huge resistance by many governments, economists and the financial industry.
German Left Party campaigns for Eurobonds
In the past couple of weeks, the Left Party in Germany has started a vehement campaign for the introduction of Eurobonds. Hardly a day has passed without one of the party leaders declaring, «Eurobonds are essential» (Gesine Lötsch, party chairperson), or «unavoidable» (Gregor Gysi, fraction leader), and even that Eurobonds were «proposed by the Left Party» and are «now being discussed everywhere» (Klaus Ernst, party co-chairperson).
08/26/2011
— Filed under: Без рубрики
Tags: Eurobonds, Germany
Sweden trying to ’trick’ EU on wolf hunt
A recent government decision to temporarily halt Sweden’s licensed wolf hunt is nothing more than an attempt to fool the European Commission, environmental organisations claimed on Tuesday.
Macedonia & Russia Join Forces in Fight against Drug Trade
Minister of the Interior Gordana Jankuloska and director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FSKN), Viktor Ivanov inked Thursday in Skopje an agreement for cooperation in the fight against illegal drug trade.
08/24/2011
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: Drug Trade, Macedonia, Russia
Volkswagen tops research and development spenders list
Volkswagen is the biggest investor in research and development in the global automotive industry.
08/23/2011
— Filed under: Business
Tags: General Motors, investment, Volkswagen
Germany’s Schäuble pushes for new EU treaty
GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel has given a guarded response to calls by her finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble for a new European treaty handing far-reaching finance and fiscal powers to Brussels institutions.
08/22/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Angela Merkel, treaty
