The UN’s Global Compact for Migration sets out nonbinding guidelines for an integrated approach to international migration. DW looks at the agreement and at why some nations are vehemently against it. The UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration marks the first time the world body has agreed on a list of global […]
Croatia Will Not Sign UN Migration Pact Joining U.S., Hungary and Austria…
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic will not sign the UN’s Global Compact for Migration (GCM), Croatian newsportal Direktno reports. The website bases the decision on a Facebook post by Croatian TV journalist Velimir Bujanec. He asked her position on the GCM after a lot of people we’re interested in her stance. In the answer his editorial […]
Looks Like Poland Won’t Be Signing UN Migration Pact Either…
Polish President: Enforcing Holocaust Law May Be ‘Unrealistic’…
Poland’s president on Tuesday said it may not be possible to punish anyone under the new law banning statements suggesting Polish complicity in the Holocaust, especially if they are made abroad. Andrzej Duda earlier signed a bill into law that calls for prison terms for people blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed […]
Poland Says No Thanks to $9.2B Credit Line from IMF…
Warsaw will withdraw from the International Monetary Fund’s precautionary Flexible Credit Line (FCL) worth billions of dollars, according to the country’s finance ministry. “We are resigning from a $9.2 billion credit line from the IMF. The Polish economy is in such a good situation that we can do it,” the ministry quoted Finance Minister Mateusz […]
Netanyahu Tells European Leaders Concern for Palestinian Rights Is “Crazy”…
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was caught on tape on Wednesday urging four European leaders to help him undermine a provision of a European Union trade agreement that imposes an obligation on Israel to respect the rights of the millions of Palestinians it rules in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. In […]
President Trump Says “Hello Poland!” (Transcript and Video)…
Trump Compares Russiagate to Iraqi WMD Lie…
President Trump and First Lady Receive Hero’s Welcome in Poland…
The nation of Poland prepared a hero’s welcome for U.S. President Donald Trump in advance of his Wednesday night arrival in Warsaw. But the Polish government executed a decidedly understated ceremony to greet Air Force One at Chopin Airport. Lawmakers in the formerly communist nation see in Trump a mirror of their own brand of […]
Czech Republic Joins Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Refusing Merkel’s Economic Migrants…
The Czech Republic has joined its Central European neighbors in officially announcing a withdrawal from the European Union’s 2015 migrant resettlement program. After much criticism of the scheme, which seeks to resettle an initial 160,000 migrants from Italy and Greece across EU member states, the Czechs have finally withdrawn citing concerns over security and the […]
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