The claim that France is at risk of being plunged into anarchy – and maybe even full-fledged civil war – has been made by several high-ranking officers and political leaders in recent years. But if a civil war does break out, the…
Poles do not want to be forced to take in migrants from outside Europe. They strongly oppose this, whether they sympathize with the right-wing Confederation (Konfederacja) group that brings together nationalists and conservative libertarians, the ruling social-conservative Law and Justice party, the…
Central Europe – Just a few days after Germany decided to reinstate border controls at its borders with Poland and Czechia, those two countries did the same last week along their borders with Slovakia, through which increasing numbers of migrants are trying…
“A great many people who try to reach Europe illegally, when they are detected, immediately file an application to avoid immediate deportation and drag out the situation over time” – says Jan Wójcik, a migration researcher at The Opportunity Foundation, regular columnist…
Austria / Hungary / Serbia – A few dozen scattered demonstrators gathered at Ballhausplatz in front of the Austrian Federal Chancellery last Friday, July 7 to protest the Austro-Hungarian-Serbian summit devoted to the fight against illegal immigration. The three countries were represented…
Hungary/Poland – The recent European migration agreement is clearly not going down well in Warsaw and Budapest. Whereas the two governments have been at odds over the war in Ukraine since the beginning of last year, they have again found common ground…
Central Europe – To mark the end of Slovakia’s presidency of the Visegrád Group before handing it over to Czechia, Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Ľudovít Ódor, welcomed his V4 counterparts to Bratislava for a summit on immigration last Monday at a time when…
The French-language news portal Breizh-Info has published a long interview in French with Hungarian Member of Parliament László Toroczkai, who is the leader of the opposition nationalist parliamentary group Mi Hazánk Mozgalom. The following is an English translation. …
Central Europe – On June 8, the EU-27 interior ministers finally approved the EU Migration Pact that had first been proposed by the European Commission in 2020. The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, the Swedish social-democrat Ylva Johansson, called this decision “a…
Croatia – On the occasion of Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman’s visit to his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi, the Croatian daily Večernji List published an article on the issue of immigration from the Indian subcontinent.
It turns out…
Belarus/Poland - Poland may close its last remaining border crossings with Belarus as a retaliatory measure, according to comments made by a state secretary in the Interior Ministry, Maciej Wąsik, on Polish television channel Polsat News.
“For us, [Belarus] is a small…
Czechia – Covid-19, the Russian–Ukrainian war, and the energy crisis had pushed the issue of illegal immigration to the back burner, but Czechia’s newest statistics show that it is still present and getting worse.
According to Czech police figures, the…