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European countries lack a collective will Last Friday marked the 25th anniversary of a well-planned, strategically competent defeat of Saddam Hussein that led to the liberation of Kuwait. In 2011, we witnessed a feebly planned and strategically myopic campaign against the Gaddafi regime. The specious alteration of the mission from a “responsibility to protect” to [...]
European Parliament The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions of 27 February 2014 on the situation in Iraq(1) , of 18 September 2014 on the situation in Iraq and Syria, and the IS offensive, including the persecution of minorities(2) , in particular paragraph 4 thereof, of 27 November 2014 on Iraq: kidnapping and [...]
At least 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, with half that number having vanished in Italy. But what’s happened to them? The figures, from Europol, the EU’s criminal intelligence agency, paint an increasingly distressing element of the ongoing refugee crisis, with fears that thousands of the missing [...]
ATHENS–Greece is steadily shifting from being the main gateway for migrants into Europe to becoming the continent’s bottleneck, as new arrivals run up against tightened borders to the north. Already struggling with its long debt crisis and economic depression, Greece risks finding itself unable to cope with the tens of thousands of migrants at risk [...]