(Politico) The European Commission is pushing to create guidelines for the NGO boats rescuing migrants off Europe’s shores as part of a plan to reduce the number of asylum seekers heading to the Continent. The plan, presented Monday by the European Commission, […]
(Politico) The EU is discussing a proposal for countries to voluntarily relocate a minimum of 5,000 or 10,000 migrants a year, according to a draft document seen by POLITICO. The proposal is being crafted by the Czech Republic, which currently holds the […]
(Politico) Belgium must pay compensation of around €100,000 to convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi for the damage he suffered by being extradited to the U.S., a Brussels appeals court ruled Tuesday. The court also ruled that the Belgian government should ask the American […]
(Politico) President Joe Biden on Saturday condemned the frenzied attack on Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage that has left the author on a ventilator. “Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman […]
(Politico) Belgian MPs ratified a controversial treaty with Iran that could allow an Iranian convicted of terrorism in Belgium to be sent back to Tehran. Out of the 131 MPs present, 79 voted in favor while 41 rejected the treaty, and 11 […]
(Politico) Belgium’s parliament on Tuesday will debate whether to ratify a proposed treaty with Iran that could allow an Iranian convicted of terrorism in Belgium to be sent back to Tehran. Iran has loudly demanded that Belgium release Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian […]
(Politico) Facebook, Google and Twitter now have an hour to take down flagged terrorist content spreading on their platforms or risk fines of billions of euros. Passed in 2021, the EU’s terrorist content regulation enters into force Tuesday. It seeks to crack […]
(Politico) Nearly 1.1 million Muslim voters cast a ballot in the 2020 election, turning out in numbers large enough to swing the presidential race in key battleground states, according to a new report. The analysis by Emgage, a Muslim American civic group, […]
(Politico) Muslim community leaders told Mayor Eric Adams during a closed-door meeting Tuesday that a high-ranking member of the NYPD should face consequences for claiming the department never surveilled Muslims in the wake of 9/11 — with one attendee calling for the […]
(Politico) Selaedin Maksut didn’t expect anything specific to come out of his meeting late last year with then-state Sen.-elect Ed Durr after an anti-Muslim tweet of Durr’s surfaced. But what was initially planned as a meeting to explain Islam to Durr — […]
(Politico) Belgian bans on the ritual slaughter of animals practiced by Jews and Muslims risk painting these minorities as “medieval” communities with no respect for animal life, the EU’s top official tasked with fighting anti-Semitism across Europe said. Since 2019, citing concerns […]
(Politico) Photos of beheadings, extremist propaganda and violent hate speech related to Islamic State and the Taliban were shared for months within Facebook groups over the past year despite the social networking giant’s claims it had increased efforts to remove such content. […]
(Politico) Inger Støjberg, a former Danish immigration minister and high-profile government figure during Europe’s 2015 migration crisis, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on Monday after an order she issued in 2016 was ruled illegal. Støjberg had said that if a […]
(Politico) A federal appeals court has overturned a lower-court decision that allowed the Department of Justice to withhold emails related to former President Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban that largely targeted Muslim-majority nations. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the […]
(Politico) French Europe Minister Clément Beaune on Monday accused the U.K. of “an economic model of, sometimes, quasi-modern slavery” amid the ongoing migrant crisis in the English Channel. Also on Monday morning, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called on the U.K. to […]
(Politico) Two French ministers on Monday called out the European Commission over a meeting between Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli and FEMYSO, a network of Muslim youth associations they dubbed an “Islamist association that is attacking France.” The association met with Dalli […]
(Politico) The kids are not alright. The College Democrats of America — the Democratic Party’s national organization presiding over 500 chapters on campuses across the country — is in turmoil. The group’s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of anti-blackness, [Islamophobia] and […]
(Politico) France “needs no lesson from the British” on the dispute between Paris and London over the handling of migrants attempting to cross the Channel to reach British shores, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French media on Monday. “The British must […]
(Politico) European Council President Charles Michel turned heads Wednesday when he claimed the EU could legally fund border barriers — calling into question a long-standing EU refusal to allow such financing. “Based on an opinion of the Legal Service of the Council, […]
(Politico) Fifteen minutes outside the town of Vathy stands a just-completed compound, surrounded by a double barbed-wire fence. The entrance, only open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., is equipped with turnstiles, magnetic gates and X-ray machines. Guards check both ID cards […]
(Politico) In Greece, officials are swiftly erecting patrol units and surveillance systems to intercept any Afghans crossing into the EU — and they say the EU should help foot the bill. Officials back in Brussels have refused, insisting any payments must be […]
(Politico) The French interior ministry said a mooted decision in the U.K. to pay France only if more migrants are stopped from crossing the Channel would represent “a grave loss of trust” between the two countries. “The conditions of the funding were […]
(Politico) The Afghanistan crisis could be a spur for the EU to agree on a common approach to migration and asylum, European Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas suggested in an interview published Saturday. “I see this as the moment to agree on a […]
(Politico) The EU emphasized security and keeping Afghan migrants outside the bloc in a draft statement obtained Thursday by POLITICO. The two-page document — dated August 25 and slated for discussion at an EU interior ministers meeting Tuesday — used the word […]
(Politico) European countries should screen Afghan refugees upon entry into the bloc to mitigate security risks, the EU’s top home affairs official said Thursday. Europe “needs to make sure that we do not take in people that could pose a security threat […]
(Politico) France and Germany will push for a European plan to tackle migration flows from Afghanistan as people flee the Taliban’s control, Emmanuel Macron said Monday evening. “We must anticipate and protect ourselves against major irregular migratory flows that would endanger those […]
(Politico) For Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban takeover of their country, Europe had — at best — mixed messages to offer. As the evacuation from Kabul airport grew increasingly chaotic Monday, with footage emerging of Afghans attempting to cling to a departing […]
(Politico) The EU is ramping up pressure on Iraq to stop its airlines from flying to Belarus, which helps Minsk send asylum seekers into the EU in retaliation against sanctions imposed by the bloc. On Thursday, there were signs that the pressure […]
(Politico) The number of migrants crossing into Lithuania from Belarus could top 10,000 by the end of the summer, Lithuania’s foreign minister warned as he urged the EU to “step up” actions to stop the arrivals. Gabrielius Landsbergis told POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook […]
(Politico) Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform. The social network — started a month ago […]
(Politico) President Joe Biden is expected to attend the 9/11 memorial in New York City to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, four sources with knowledge of his plans told POLITICO. The White House recently indicated to officials in New […]
(Politico) Islamic State “no longer has the capacity to send terrorists onto European soil” thanks to “action taken by the international coalition,” the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told Le Monde in an interview published Saturday. However, he warned “the threat […]
(Politico) The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Saturday said it will boycott the traditional White House Eid celebration in protest at the Biden administration’s actions amid escalating violence between Israeli and Palestinian forces. President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
(Politico) If Dutch politicians and voters thought that Geert Wilders had faded into near-obscurity since the last election, they were dead wrong. For 15 years, the far-right firebrand was everywhere, spreading his anti-Islam, anti-immigration, anti-EU message and doing increasingly well at the […]
(Politico) A majority of French high schoolers believe they and their classmates should be allowed to wear religious symbols such as a hijab or a kippah, a poll has found. “Conspicuous religious symbols” have been banned in schools since 2004 as part […]
(Politico) Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang promised Wednesday to meet with Palestinian American leaders and said he may have “confused” the intentions of certain groups in his recent essay likening the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to “fascist boycotts of Jewish businesses.” In […]
(Politico) French Minister for Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal today defended her probe into the influence of postcolonial studies and “Islamo-leftism” in the country’s universities. Vidal received plenty of criticism from universities and left-wing parties after she first announced the inquiry […]
(Politico) France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin crossed swords with far-right leader Marine Le Pen Thursday night in a televised debate, with the two clashing over their competing visions on how to fight radical Islam and terrorism. The duel was highly anticipated, four […]
(Politico) The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog, OLAF, has opened an investigation into Frontex, the bloc’s border agency, over allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks, according to four EU officials. OLAF investigators have been interviewing members of the Warsaw-based agency “since the start […]
(Politico) Rome is facing pressure to abolish its offshore quarantine system for migrants and refugees following a series of alarming incidents, including several deaths, over the past year. Since May, the Italian government has isolated asylum seekers on ships after they arrive, […]
(Politico) It’s a French draft law that attracted huge controversy before it was even published — and doesn’t even mention the issue that President Emmanuel Macron says it’s meant to address: “Islamist separatism.” The concern that Islamist extremists are creating communities and […]
(Politico) The French government’s migration policy is “anything but lax,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that “no president has done as much as Emmanuel Macron” when it comes to being tough on asylum and migration. Speaking to Le Parisien, Darmanin said […]
(Politico) The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has described European Council President Charles Michel’s proposal to create a European imam training institute as “not feasible.” Visiting Austria earlier this week after the terror attack in Vienna, Michel suggested establishing an […]
(Politico) European Council President Charles Michel on Monday called for the creation of a European institute to train imams as a way to curb hate speech and prevent terrorism. Speaking in Vienna, where he paid tribute to the victims of last week’s […]
(Politico) Austrian authorities have shut down a mosque and an Islamic association frequented by the man who killed four people in a terror attack in Vienna earlier this week. Integration Minister Susanne Raab and Interior Minister Karl Nehammer announced the closure of […]
(Politico) France’s finance minister on Friday accused some mayors of giving in to “political Islam” because they allow women-only hours at local swimming pools, underscoring a harsher tone in the aftermath of a schoolteacher’s beheading. “There is terrorism, yes — the crime […]
(Politico) French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin faced ridicule and criticism on Wednesday for expressing shock at dedicated aisles in supermarkets for halal and kosher food. Darmanin told BFM TV late on Tuesday that he has “always been shocked to walk into a […]
(Politico) President Donald Trump said his Democratic rival Joe Biden would “turn Minnesota into a refugee camp” and bragged about deporting Somali nationals, sharpening his play for the battleground state during a Friday rally. “I’m your wall between the American dream and […]
(Politico) Rep. Ilhan Omar is one of the best-known Democrats from the class of 2018, a lightning-rod member of the Squad whose outspoken liberal politics have made her an enemy of Donald Trump. Back home in Minneapolis, however, her polarizing national profile […]
(Politico) Voice of America is weighing a suspension of four contractors who were involved in publishing a story and video that was deemed too favorable to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to two people familiar with the matter. On July 22, VOA’s […]
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