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Both the Netherlands and Flanders have seen big political changes over the last decade or so. The theme of immigration has come to define the dividing line of politics in the Low Countries, with most establishment parties defending a laissez-faire policy towards immigration while the newer parties are implacably opposed to it. Geert Wilders’ support […]

Monday’s Amtrak train derailment in the United States, appears to have been caused by an object on the railway, a government official briefed on the crash told The New York Post. Some of the 14 train cars careened onto vehicles on a highway below. Law enforcement confirmed at least six deaths and 78 injured passengers. […]

“Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality,” Trump said in a speech. The international community was almost unanimous in condemning his move. By moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, many negative reactions have followed, as both Palestinians and Israelis claim […]

“Paltry and tokenistic” is how Labour’s health spokesperson Alan Kelly has described proposals by Minister for Health Simon Harris and Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe for new talks on resolving the nurses dispute which should focus on issues relating to staffing levels and working conditions but not pay. He told Newstalk Breakfast that the offer was in fact “kind of insulting” and that be believed there would be a compromise eventually and that both sides should “sit at the table and talk.” Mr Kelly said he believed there will be compromise eventually and he asked why the Government could not come up with a solution now without putting the public through a long strike and hardship. He denied that if Labour were in Government the situation would be the same, “fiscally we didn’t have the same space, there is more elasticity now. If we were in Government we wouldn’t have gotten to this place.” The Tipperary TD said he had

The Irish Times appears complicit in an article they wrote in 2016, possibly at the request of muslim leaders, in that it fails to do any real investigative work and simply allows itself to be used as a propaganda platform to put Islam in a good light and not entertain any critical or even slight discretionary glance. But this is what we have gotten used to the hogtied press who even accept bribes from the government to publish "good news" stories about the governments plan to invade Ireland with Africans and Asians in their "Ireland 2040" plan! In the article, no non Muslim or member of the accused "right wing" were interviewed and certainly no "unbiased" academic or opposing viewpoint was interviewed. [embed]https://youtu.be/Ovp8HMdty2s[/embed] We decided to see what we could do despite not have any financial backing or support, unlike the well funded Irish Times... We spoke to a Christian Iranian who fled Iran after the Islamic revolution. He knows Arabic and I

There are too little resources made available to care for additional asylum seekers in the already-overcrowded shelters, the mayors noted in an article published in Le Monde this month. The mayors of Lille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse and Nantes have sounded the alarm on government inaction faced with the refugee crisis. Available housing facilities […]

According to Micheal Heaver, of the 850 estimated ISIS supporters who have gone from Britain to Syria or Iraq, half or some 425 are said to have returned. “To put this into perspective, whilst over 1 900 have gone from France to support the Islamic State, far less, 271, have been allowed to return,” says […]