Brussels’ largest political faction wants to ship illegal immigrants to Africa, but the EU’s own laws could get in the way The leader of the center-right European People’s Party has called on the EU to set up migrant return hubs in Africa to enable swift deportations. However, similar schemes have failed before. Read more Child migrants raped amid massive influx into Spanish exclave – Euronews In an editorial for Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Monday, Weber argued that the recent migrant invasion of Ceuta was enabled by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’ pro-immigration policies. Enforcement of EU migration law, the senior Brussels power-player argued, can no longer be left up to individual member states. “Just as a village policeman has no chance against organized crime, no single m...
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The old transatlantic order is weakening, but Moscow cannot afford to wait for Western divisions to solve the Ukraine conflict Western Europe hasn’t stopped fearing Russia. In fact, it fears it so much that it is prepared to accept the very idea of a major war. Why is the West no longer united? Why is the US distancing itself from the Ukraine crisis? And why can Moscow not wait for the EU’s internal contradictions to resolve its problems? Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy and editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Politics, spoke about these issues in an interview with Ukraina.ru. Bloomberg recently reported on a closed-door meeting in Vienna involving former senior officials from the UK, France, Germany, and Russia, held in July to discuss the terms of a potential settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. These weren’t official government n...
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson broke ranks with the EU’s push to restore solidarity following the deadly Ceuta chaos Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has broken ranks with the EU’s push for solidarity with Spain after the Ceuta crisis, calling Madrid’s migrant amnesty a “very bad idea” that risks a repeat of Europe’s 2015 influx. He warned that Spain’s potential legalization of more than a million people creates a loophole for migrants to push north across the EU’s open borders. His comments come after tens of thousands of migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave from Morocco within days in late July, completely overwhelming the local authorities. More than 100 people died in the crisis and the city plunged into chaos. The surge drew criticism from other EU leaders, several of whom linked it to Spain’s migrant regularization program targeting 500,000,...
At least four Moroccan minors under 14 have received hospital treatment for alleged sexual assaults as reception facilities in Ceuta struggle with overcrowding At least four girls under 14 have been treated for alleged sexual assaults in the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta, after a massive migrant influx overwhelmed reception facilities in the area and left minors sleeping on the streets, Euronews has reported. The victims are reportedly Moroccan minors who entered Ceuta during the unprecedented migration surge in late July, the outlet said on Sunday, citing medical officials. A boy is also believed to be among the victims, while medical sources warned that the true number could be higher as cases remain unreported. A total of more than a dozen patients with injuries consistent with sexual assault have reportedly been treated so far at Ceuta University Hospital. Susana Ascaso, an accident and emer...
The spike comes amid Pentagon disclosures on unexplained phenomena, with 41 declassified documents released just last week Germany has seen a spike in UFO sighting reports, according to the Central Research Network for Extraordinary Celestial Phenomena (CENAP), the country’s largest private UFO reporting and investigation network. The surge comes alongside the Pentagon’s release of declassified files on phenomena believed to be potentially linked to extraterrestrial activity. According to director Hansjuergen Koehler, CENAP has never received as many reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena – the official term for UFOs – as it does now. “We receive between three and six reports a day,” he told Euronews in an interview released on Sunday. By August 2026, he and his team had investigated some 14,000 sighting reports, he said, though he did not specify over what period...
Finland cannot risk its own readiness to meet Kiev’s demands, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has said Finland will not hand over more of its air defense missiles to Ukraine, Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has said, insisting that Helsinki cannot risk its combat readiness amid tensions with Russia. Speaking to Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat on Saturday, Hakkanen suggested that the upcoming winter will be difficult both for NATO and Ukraine, predicting that Moscow will once again target Ukrainian energy infrastructure with new missile and drone strikes. Ukraine has already intensified pleas for more air defense missiles, particularly US-made Patriot interceptors, as Russia continues its strikes on military-related facilities and logistics. Earlier this month, Vladimir Zelensky admitted that Ukraine is struggling to down Russian ballistic missiles “simply because there are no interceptors for th...