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The French National Assembly - the lower house of the French parliament - has approved an “anti-terrorism bill” hastily drafted by the country's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy.
It is proposed to raise the retirement age in the UK to 68 by 2050. This is stated in a report by the parliamentary Pensions Commission published last week. Under the leadership of Lord Turner, it…
A dispute is heating up in Europe over the EU budget for 2007-2013. British Prime Minister Tony Blair demanded to cut the contributions of union members to the European budget from 1.06% to 1.03% of…
The number of Latvian migrant workers in Ireland and the UK may be approaching 100,000, of whom only one in three is officially registered.
The first paragraph of Article 16 of the German Basic Law states: "No one may be deprived of German citizenship." Now Germany's Federal Constitutional Court must decide whether this right applies to…
Of the fifteen mainland autonomous communities of Spain, four have access to the Mediterranean Sea, where resort areas have been developing for several decades. These areas are particularly…
Today the European Union is experiencing the deepest crisis in its entire history, but despite this, Europeans are determined to continue integration. It remains to determine its paths.
Most laws protect the citizens of their own country. But there are other laws that threaten those same citizens. Last week, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in Karlsruhe began examining…
For two weeks now, mass riots, arson and pogroms have continued in France. Having started on October 27 in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, they quickly spread to almost the entire country and…
British authorities have launched a large-scale inspection of English language schools for foreigners. A quarter of such educational institutions turned out to be fictitious offices that receive…
For the second week now, the suburbs of Paris resemble Harlem of the 1960s. Overturned cars, smoldering fires made of car tires, broken shop windows. From dawn to dusk, only small groups of rioting…