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Dutch elections (9.6.10) have seen the outgoing government party, the Christian Democrats, take heavy losses, with prospects of an ill-fitting coalition to follow. … Read More »
The Pope, who moved at Christmas to advance the claim to sainthood of the Australian, Mary MacKillop, turned his attention this month to violent rejection of immigrants, in Italy. … Read More »
The new Australian Defence Minister, John Faulkner, is this week in Europe (9-14.6.09), to attend to “issues of importance to Australia’s Defence interests” – focused on the NATO-led commitment in Afghanistan.
In the Mediterranean, an Australian warship has come to the aid of a boat, crowded and adrift. … Read More »
Too many people of European background who live in other countries have no true idea of what their Old Country is like today, according to Ambassador David Daly. … Read More »
The jobs lock-out for “third-country” citizens in the common labour jobs market of the EU looks to be easing for highly-skilled persons at least, with a decision taken at Brussels last month. … Read More »
Some 200 boat people are believed to have perished in a storm off the Libyan coast, part of the current wave of would-be immigrants making for the European Union, via Italy. … Read More »
Hundreds of asylum seekers broke out from detention and marched into the local town centre of the Italian island of Lempedusa (25.1.09), to protest over their treatment there.
The United Nations refugee agency had warned two days before it was concerned about the number of migrants living in the detention centre on the southern Italian island. … Read More »