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Liege: Lone Shooters Bane Of Society

  • December 26th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

liege-st-lambert-sq.jpg liege-victim.jpgliege-stlambert2.jpgAnother social outsider able to keep guns: the attacker who fired on shoppers in Liege on 13.12.11  took six lives with some 100 others hurt. … Read More »

Drugs: Goodbye Dutch Skunk?

  • October 25th, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

coffee-shop-dutch.jpgBacking-off on liberal marijuana laws in the Netherlands this month has seen a new ban in the offing, on potent varieties of the drug, known as “skunk”. … Read More »

Dutch Court Decides Blame On Srebrenica …

  • July 6th, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

srebrenica-grave-wikipedia.jpegOPINION: Old controversies have been revived by an appeal court at The Hague, blaming the Dutch state for the deaths of three men at Srebrenica in 1995. … Read More »

E. Coli Plagues Europe

  • June 3rd, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

ecoli-u-calif.jpegThe E. coli outbreak focused around Northern Germany has caused 17 deaths to date in Germany and one in  Sweden, with 2000 people ill in several countries, many seriously. … Read More »

Dutch Smoke Houses Ban

  • June 3rd, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

coffee-shop-dutch.jpgDutch government leaders are going ahead with the proposal to ban tourists from special “coffee shops” – ending a decades-long marijhuana honeymoon. … Read More »

May Day In Germany: Nuclear Non-proliferation Talks; Street Protests; Arrests On Terror Charges …

  • May 1st, 2011
  • Posted by EUEditor

nuclear-plant_grafenrheinfeld.jpgA seemingly odd group of ten countries, one of them Australia, has launched a fresh move to try to curtail nuclear armament, at a gathering of their Foreign Ministers in Berlin.

Around the corner, in the German capital, protesters were gearing up for their annual May Day parades, along with counterparts in many other German cities; some fighting had already started in Hamburg between left-wing and extreme right groups; and the police grabbed three men, at Dusseldorf and Bochum, charging them with preparing a terrorist attack.   … Read More »

Finland Vote Latest In Euro Nationalist Trend …

  • April 22nd, 2011
  • Posted by Lee Duffield

finland-vote.jpgElections this month (17.4.11) in Finland produced another installment in the rise of support for militant groups against continuing immigration.

Posted by Lee Duffield with research by Haydn Rippon. … Read More »

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