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Dutch Elections: PM’s Party Beaten Over Budgets And Migration …

  • June 10th, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

amsterdam-ndedu.jpgDutch 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 »

Papal Moves: Mary MacKillop; Migration

  • January 15th, 2010
  • Posted by EUEditor

mary-mackillop.jpegThe 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 »

New Defence Minister At NATO

  • June 10th, 2009
  • Posted by EUEditor


nato-flags-ld.jpgThe 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 »

Hard To Keep Up With Fast-changing EU, Says Envoy

  • June 5th, 2009
  • Posted by EUEditor

david-daly-2-reduced.jpgToo 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 »

“Blue Card” Decision Helps Prospects For Jobs In EU

  • June 3rd, 2009
  • Posted by EUEditor


bxl-incl-fair-013.jpgThe 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 »

Immigration: New Sea Tragedy

  • April 1st, 2009
  • Posted by EUEditor

migration-eu-boatpeople.JPGSome 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 »

Lampedusa - Detention Centre Under Pressure

  • January 24th, 2009
  • Posted by Daniel Challis

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 »

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