Monday, September 9, 2019

Stories For 9/9 - Part 2

Here on the date which sounds like "no, no" in German, are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, the latest salvo by French politician Marine Le Pen against President Emmanuel Macron.

From France24, the French government launches a national consultation on pesticide-free buffer zones.

From RFI, 13,000 travelers are stranded after the French airline Aigle Azur collapses.

From Voice Of Europe, France reportedly spends about 2 billion euros each year on underage migrants.

From the Express, Remainer MPs win a vote to force U.K. Prime Minister Johnson to release his emails, texts and WhatApps pertaining to his decision to suspend Parliament.

From the Evening Standard, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow announces his resignation.

From the Independent, two men fall from the Kew bridge into the Thames River in London, one of whom dies.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Varadkar tells Johnson that "significant gaps remain" between their two governments in resolving Brexit.

From VRT NWS, over half of the population increase in Brussels, Belgium is accounted for by migrants from other E.U. countries.

From the NL Times, reducing the number of livestock in the Netherlands will nitrogen emissions.  (Since nitrogen accounts for over three quarters of the earth's air, why are nitrogen emissions a problem?  Whether "nitrogen" also includes nitrogen compounds, such as ammonia, is not stated.)

From Dutch News, senior civil servants press Dutch prosecutors to put Geert Wilders on trial for his "fewer Moroccans" speech.

From EuroNews, three people are fatally shot in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, the widow of a German rapper who became an ISIS fighter is arrested in Hamburg.

From the CPH Post, are Denmark's climate change hopes going up in smoke?

From Polskie Radio, Polish musicians hold a concert for the benefit of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

From Radio Prague, Prague city authorities plan to ban the use of coal, briquettes or coke in old stoves and boilers.

From The Slovak Spectator, "Slovakia remembers the Holocaust".

From Daily News Hungary, how Hungarian politicians have evolved on the issue of abortion.

From Hungary Today, a documentary on German Chancellor Merkel and the migration crisis in Hungary causes an uproar.

From About Hungary, according to President János Áder, Hungary has a "realistic" chance of becoming climate neutral by 2050.

From Euractiv, E.U. countries reportedly have "no concrete plans" to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

From Russia Today, in Moscow city elections, opposition parties "score big wins".

From Sputnik International, recently freed Ukrainian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky holds a press conference.

From The Moscow Times, the Russian Defense Ministry declassifies documents relating to the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939.

From Romania-Insider, a look at Brașov, Romania from above.

From Novinite, a competition for young European scientists takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, a Bulgarian woman is the sole candidate to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

From Ekathimerini, the driver of a car shoots at a tourist bus in Athens.

From the Greek Reporter, over 700 illegal migrants entered Greece this past weekend.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis announces a "growth for all" slogan at an international fair.

From Total Croatia News, claims that ethnic violence is on the rise in Croatia are not backed by the statistics.

From the Malta Independent, migrants at the Safi barracks in Malta demand their release and set mattresses on fire.

From Malta Today, construction on the Santa Lucija tunnel uncovers what might be an archaeological site.

From ANSA, former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini "blasts" the new Italian government and claims that the "real Italy" is protesting against it.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss government closes two asylum centers.

From El País, Spanish tax authorities warn 90,000 businesses about the risk of a no-deal Brexit.

From The Portugal News, former Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates goes to court for 31 alleged financial and economic crimes.

From The Conservative Woman, U.K. leftists loves illiteracy.

And from Snouts in the Trough, are the people who practice FGM above the law?

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