Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Tuesday Things - Part 2

As Tuesday afternoon slips into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, Italian Prime Minister Conte and German Chancellor Merkel repeat the tired old mantra on immigration.

From Deutsche Welle, German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer responds to French President Emmanuel Macron's comment that NATO is "brain-dead".

From Voice Of Europe, in Sweden, 24 percent of people named Ali have criminal records.  (The title says "25", but the article says "24".  If you read Swedish, read the story at SamhällsNytt.)

From the CPH Post, a Danish member of ISIS is arrested at the Copenhagen airport.

From Polskie Radio, the Polish cabinet steps down to make way for their successors.

From EuroNews, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki presses Netflix to change a map used in a documentary about a Nazi death camp guard.  (The map currently used shows Poland's post-war boundaries.)

From Radio Prague, the Czech Ministry of Defence approves the purchase of American helicopters.

From The Slovak Spectator, fall colors in Slovakia's Small Carpathians.

From the Hungary Journal, a European Parliament committee permits Hungarian European Commission candidate to interview for the position.

From Daily News Hungary, two women beat and rob an 83-year-old man in Budapest.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, respect for historical facts is not revisionism.

From About Hungary, a German public radio series becomes an example of why voters don't like the liberal bias in the media.

From Russia Today, the Russian Duma rules that the swastika may be used, if done to condemn Nazism.

From Sputnik International, Russia plans to launch about 30 new navigation satellites.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian court sentences six Crimean Tartar activists to jail on charges related to terrorism.

From Romania-Insider, the University of Bucharest invites second-round Romanian presidential candidates to a debate.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Edupedu.)

From Novinite, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva leaves for an official visit to Angola and Namibia.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria extends its deadline for updated offers from bidders who would produce new patrol vessels for its navy.

From Radio Bulgaria, a Bulgarian scientist designs "cars of the future".

From Ekathimerini, two terror suspects are remanded in custody after testifying before a magistrate.

From the Greek Reporter, for the first time ever, an American B-52 lands in Greece.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Greece and China work toward cooperating in "business".

From Total Croatia News, Croatia has a "strategic goal" of adopting the Euro by the end of the next government term.

From the Malta Independent, an application is filed to build a home for the elderly on the site of an old quarry.

From Malta Today, Malta is reportedly ready to help Libya with some of its internal problems.

From ANSA, a group of far-right extremists allegedly planned to blow up a mosque near Siena, Italy.

From SwissInfo, a "pre-apprentice" training program for refugees yields some success.

From The Portugal News, Portugal receives more remittances from emigrants than any other E.U. country.

From El País, two Spanish parties make a preliminary deal to form a coalition government.

From France24, France extends the outage of three nuclear reactors after an earthquake.

From RFI, according to French President Macron, "nationalism is war".

From VRT NWS, the main auditorium at the Ghent University campus stinks.

From the NL Times, Rotterdam will give all of its law enforcement officers body cameras.

From Dutch News, a Zwarte Piet supporter is arrested in The Hague for threatening to blow himself up.

From Euractiv, the E.U. expands its military cooperation with 13 planned joint projects.

From the Express, a Liberal Democrat candidate for parliament forms a Remain pact with a Labour Party candidate.

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister Boris Johnson blasts Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and promises to end the "groundhoggery of Brexit".

From the (U.K.) Independent, an anti-Brexit campaigner, known as "Stop Brexit Man", will run in Wales as a Liberal Democrat in the upcoming election.

From the (Irish) Independent, old Tweets emerge of a current Fianna Fáil politician using the offensive term "pikey".

From the Irish Examiner, 600,000 Irish people no longer have to boil their water.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. is "stuffed" on Brexit and fisheries.

And from Snouts in the Trough, U.K. schoolchildren get brainwashed with lies, lies, and more lies.

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