The EU has flatly condemned the desecration of the Islamic holy text in contrast to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who took a softer approach, as protests continue across the Islamic world, allegedly backed by Russia.
Many of the traffickers and smugglers who operate in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia overlap with those smuggling migrants into Europe and while some simply facilitate illegal crossings, many other groups have more sinister motives.
Albanian gangs are running the UK drugs trade and in Italy “Albanian-speaking groups” are listed alongside the notorious ’Ndrangheta criminal organisation.
Italian journalists, investigating illegal immigration across the Western Balkan countries, were threatened with death by a people smuggler.
Despite being an EU outsider, Norway already has strong cooperation agreements with Brussels on defence.
Amid heavy fighting in Ukraine, Russia has increased the age of eligibility for military conscription which could potentially see conscripts sent to regions of Ukraine that were annexed by Russia last year.
Despite its birth rate sinking to a ten-year low, the population of Germany nevertheless climbed to 84.3 million people in 2022—more people than have ever lived in the country before—as net migration amounted to a record-setting 1.5 million people.
The case has been brought forward by a professor of competition policy who said Apple’s charges for developers are “excessive and only possible due to its monopoly on the distribution of apps.”
As mining experts declared the EU’s Raw Materials strategy effectively dead in the water, MEPs visited cobalt mining facilities in the Congo with the promise of enhanced humanitarian aid.
Yevhen Borisov, accused of having accepted bribes in return for exempting some would-be soldiers from mobilization, is said to have purchased real estate worth around 4 million euros at the posh Marbella resort in southern Spain.
In two separate jihadi suicide bombings, at a metro station in the EU Quarter and Brussels Airport in Zaventem, 32 people lost their lives.
The movement, which started in Marseille, is now spreading across the country. “It’s not a movement of anger but rather one of disgust,” a member of an influential police union explains.
