Category: Europe
ACTA killed: MEPs destroy treaty in final vote
ACTA has received a knockout blow from the European Parliament as the majority of MEPs voted in favor of rejecting the controversial trade agreement, which critics say would protect copyright at the expense of freedom of speech on the Internet.
The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
In the largest episode of forced migration in history, millions of German-speaking civilians were sent to Germany from Czechoslovakia and other European countries after World War II by order of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union
Ancient Swiss dialect resurrected
An ancient French dialect is experiencing a renaissance in the canton of Valais.
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
Jawbone Found in England Is from the Earliest Known Modern Human in Northwestern Europe
A piece of jawbone excavated from a prehistoric cave in England is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Europe, according to an international team of scientists.
Anger as crisis-stricken Spain shells out for Pope’s visit
Austerity-hit Spaniards clash with Madrid police in protest at a visit by Pope Benedict XVI that will reportedly cost their crisis-hit country €100 million.
Denmark fences itself off from the EU, raising disintegration fears
Denmark is to put the barriers back up on its borders with Germany and Sweden. The move is not going down well with EU colleagues who say it violates Europe’s much-heralded open border agreement.
Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
Iceland is free. And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers.
Centres of royal power: New findings about the realms of medieval itinerant kings
Kingston, Husebygård, Königshof. These three terms in English, Norwegian and German all describe the same thing: royal farmsteads that together formed a network and belonged to the early “state.”
Swiss stick to their guns in weapons vote
Switzerland upheld its reputation for having one of the most liberal yet lethal firearms laws in Europe yesterday after voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals that would have obliged some two million gun owners in the country to keep their weapons in public arsenals rather than at home.
Greek barrier on border with Turkey to keep out migrants
Greece on Saturday announced plans to build a barrier along its border with Turkey in a bid to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the European Union.
Germany’s angst about Islamists goes mainstream
In Germany, where the racial crimes of the Nazis have bred extreme sensitivity toward the rights of minorities, such confrontations would until recently have been limited to the far-right margins. The weekly rallies in this city of 250,000 near the Dutch border these days look decidedly mainstream
