22 December 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: The government plans to turn the birth-place of Adolph Hitler into a centre for the disabled. They have tabled a compulsory purchase order for the property in Braunau am Inn, and were originally planning to demolish it but realised that might amount to denying the… Continue reading Issue 85: 2016 12 22: International News in Brief
Category: Week In Brief International
Issue 34:2016 12 15:Week in Brief International
15 December 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe EU: In Brussels, the EU and Cuba signed an agreement for closer co-operation. FRANCE: Jérôme Cahuzac, who was in charge of the fight against tax evasion as President Hollande’s budget minister, was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to three years in prison. A plastic surgeon,… Continue reading Issue 34:2016 12 15:Week in Brief International
Issue 83:2016 12 08: Week in Brief International
08 December 2016 Week in Brief: INTERNATIONAL Europe AUSTRIA: Independent candidate (former Green leader) Alexander Van Der Bellen beat Norbert Hoffer (far right Freedom Party) in last Sunday’s re-run of the presidential election, with 53% of the vote against 47%. FINLAND: A man was arrested after apparently random rifle shootings killed three women as they… Continue reading Issue 83:2016 12 08: Week in Brief International
Issue 82:2016 12 01:Week in Brief International
1 December 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: Last May’s inconclusive presidential election will be rerun this Sunday. The choice is between Norbert Hoffer of the far-right Freedom Party and the Green but independent Alexander van der Bellen. BULGARIA: Migrants rioted after a health scare confined them to their camp in Hermanli near… Continue reading Issue 82:2016 12 01:Week in Brief International
Issue 81:2016 11 24: week in Brief International
24 November 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: In the first round of elections for the leadership of the Republican party, Francois Fillon (former prime minister) came first with 44%, Alain Juppé (the favourite, former prime minister, former deputy mayor of Paris, mayor of Bordeaux) came second with 28%, and Nicolas Sarkozy (former president)… Continue reading Issue 81:2016 11 24: week in Brief International
Issue 80:2016 11 17:Week in Brief International
17 November 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BULGARIA: Rumen Radev won the presidential elections with 59.4% of the vote. Bulgaria is a member of NATO and the EU, but Mr Radev has criticised the EU about sanctions against Russia. See comment President Putin’s Other New Friends. ESTONIA: Prime Minister Taavi Rovias lost a… Continue reading Issue 80:2016 11 17:Week in Brief International
Issue 79:2016 11 10:Week in brief: International
10 November 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: Authorities cleared the ‘Stalingrad jungle’ migrant camp in Paris and relocated its inhabitants to centres elsewhere in the country. Their arrival has been met by protests in some towns and cities. GERMANY: The interior minister Thomas de Maziere is supporting a proposal for migrants found in… Continue reading Issue 79:2016 11 10:Week in brief: International
Issue 78:2016 11 03:Week in Brief International
03 November 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: President Hollande said that the migrant camps in Paris would be cleared, with migrants either registered and moved to official centres or deported. The EU’s anti-fraud agency has ordered Marine le Pen to return €339,000 of funding used to pay a bodyguard and a manager at… Continue reading Issue 78:2016 11 03:Week in Brief International
Issue77:2016 10 27:Week in Brief International
27 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe FRANCE: The authorities have cleared the ‘jungle’ – the unofficial migrant camp outside Calais. Migrants have been registered and moved to official centres around France. ITALY: Some Italian naval officers are under investigation for suspected culpable homicide over an incident in 2013 in which 268 migrants drowned… Continue reading Issue77:2016 10 27:Week in Brief International
Issue76:2016 10 20: Week in Brief International
20 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe AUSTRIA: The government has bought the house in Braunau where Adolf Hitler was born, and plans to demolish it so it can’t become a neo-Nazi shrine. BELGIUM: The Wallonian parliament has blocked the trade deal between the EU and Canada. FRANCE: In the first debate between the candidates… Continue reading Issue76:2016 10 20: Week in Brief International
Isssue 75:2016 10 13:Week in brief International
13 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe BELGIUM: Two policemen were stabbed in Brussels. The attacker was arrested after another policeman shot him in the leg. Investigators are exploring the possibility that it was a terrorist attack. FRANCE: The French and German defence ministers signed an agreement in Paris for co-operation between the two… Continue reading Isssue 75:2016 10 13:Week in brief International
Issue 74: 2016 10 06:Week in brief (international)
06 October 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: A re-run of the recent elections has been postponed for two months until December. GERMANY: The interior minister Thomas de Mazière said that the Dublin convention should be reinstated. This insists that immigrants should be returned to the first EU country they enter. Prosecutors have… Continue reading Issue 74: 2016 10 06:Week in brief (international)
Issue 73:2016 09 29:Week in Brief International
29 Setember 2016 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BOSNIA: The Serbian half of Bosnia held a referendum on Saturday about keeping Jan 9 as its national day. The Bosnian Constitutional court has ruled it illegal – the Bosnian Serb declaration of independence on 9 Jan 1992 triggered the three year Balkan war. The EU… Continue reading Issue 73:2016 09 29:Week in Brief International
