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Spain’s Ceuta crisis is not an argument against immigration. It is an indictment of a government that lost control of its border and forced Europe to react. iPINIONS argues that immigration can invigorate a country, but compassion without control is national abdication. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-ceuta-migration-crisis-is-a-test Read more.
Ukraine spent the first years of Putin’s genocidal invasion begging Biden and NATO for the weapons to strike back in kind. Instead, Washington dithered, NATO cowered, and Kyiv paid the price. iPINIONS argues that while Biden delayed, Ukraine innovated. Now its drones are reaching Moscow, its weapons industry is booming, and Europe is looking to… Read more.
British MPs have voted for a delay in the Brexit process for three months or more, after struggling to agree on what terms the UK should leave the European Union on 29 March. You might think, after months of division, infighting and uncertainty that surely, surely, this means everything will go smoothly from here. Well…… Read more.
Greek banks and the stock exchange will be shut on Monday after creditors refused to extend the country’s bailout and savers queued to withdraw cash, taking Athens’ standoff with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to a dangerous new level… In the early hours of Saturday, Tspiras asked for extra time to enable… Read more.
Nobody can blame Jose Manuel Barrasso, president of the European Commission, for gloating on Tuesday’s edition of Charlie Rose as follows: [Despite predictions about disintegration of the EU] all the steps [taken since the global financial crisis of 2008] have been for more integration, more integrated governance… All of the doomsayers were wrong… People want… Read more.
Public disillusionment in Britain with the European Union is such that Prime Minister David Cameron felt compelled last Wednesday to pledge to hold an “in-out referendum” on UK membership if he is re-elected in 2015. The next Conservative manifesto in 2015 will ask for a mandate from the British people for a Conservative government to… Read more.
Last week news organizations and financial markets were reacting like chickens with their heads cut off to efforts by the European Union to deal with its current debt crisis and put in place measures to prevent another one. At the end of this EU summit on Friday news reports and financial analyses indicated that the… Read more.
