(ZHE) — Estonia’s defense minister has halted a NATO war exercise in Estonia pending an investigation after a fighter jet deployed in northeast Europe accidentally fired a secret missile during training. Authorities are now searching for the rocket, which was shot over the Baltic country’s airspace by a Spanish fighter jet this week near the Russian border. Minister of Defense […]
Police are warning that 50,000 illegal immigrants from Africa are waiting in Morocco to invade the country. Already, boatloads of migrants are washing up on Spanish beaches in scenes that have shocked observers. The number of migrants waiting to storm Spain is growing with the men becoming more violent. [...]
As the migration route between Libya and Italy has experienced a crackdown, migration is now following a route to the EU through Morocco. With Spain realizing a high degree of migration from its southern coast, it is assessing an additional €35 million to accommodate the situation. Morocco, at this time, is relaxing its border controls in a bid to secure even more funding from the EU, which as of now totals €100 million.
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Europe’s migrant problems see no end in sight.
Ever since Italy turned away large vessels of migrants seeking entrance into the European Union, and Spain decided to take in the boats, more and more migrants are splashing onto Spanish beaches and scattering into EU towns and cities.
Dozens of videos are making the rounds on social media showing the moment migrants boats land on a packed beach in Cadiz, Spain, and sprint up the sand as stunned tourists look on.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez holds the reigns of power with the help a minority coalition with a very thin grasp. His tenure is brand new and now he’s in a position to test the strength of his ruling coalition in a battle of the wills on one of the most fractious of governmental issues: budget matters. A vote came up on Friday with a new plan to balance the budget in which Sanchez’s allies withheld their support, which could show that perhaps this coalition isn’t really united where it counts.
After being released from detention in Germany on a Spanish arrest warrant, the deposed Catalonian President, Carles Puigdemont, announced that he was going to continue to pursue the cause of Catalonia’s independence. Puigdemont made the statement at a joint press conference in Waterloo, the site of Napoleon’s 1815 defeat, and from where the cause for Catalonia’s independence will be orchestrated through a ‘Republican Council’, which he says that he is going to organize. Much of Puigdemont’s political activism will take place from Belgium.
French President Emmanuel Macron, on his first official visit to Spain, together with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, expressed their doubts about the trade deal reached in Washington D.C. between US President Donald Trump and EU Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.
An estimated 800 sub-Saharan migrants attempted to cross the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta through a 23-foot high fence. The invaders with homemade shields threw stones, Molotov cocktails, and feces at police. They also used gasoline sprays to make flamethrowers. [...]
On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with French President Emmanuel Macron in a meeting which occurred without media fanfare or notice. That meeting addressed the topics of Syria and Ukraine and came at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with Consortium News, an independence leader and member of the Spanish parliament tells Attilio Moro that Catalonians are not finished seeking separation from Madrid. By Attilio Moro in Barcelona Special to Consortium News “Freedom for the political…Read more →
