02 February 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe AUSTRIA: The government announced a ban on the burka and the niqab, and other measures to strengthen security and to integrate migrants. The governing coalition (Social Democrat Party and People’s Party) is hoping that such measures will take the wind out of the far-right Freedom party’s… Continue reading Issue 90: 2017 02 02:Week in Brief International
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Issue 89:2017 01 26 : Week in Brief International
26 January 2017 Week In Brief: INTERNATIONAL NEWS Europe BELGIUM: Flemish MPs and Walloon MPs have united to uphold the serving of free beer and wine to them in the national parliament, a service which the parliamentary ethics committee recommended should be abolished. FRANCE: In the first round of elections for the leadership of the… Continue reading Issue 89:2017 01 26 : Week in Brief International