May 18, 2012 Kader Arif is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament of France where he has sat on the Committee on International Trade. He was recently appointed as junior minister of Veteran Affairs in Francois Hollande’s government.
15 December 2011 The members of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) with seats in the European parliament refused to acknowledge the five activists in the Arab Spring uprising who were awarded with the Sacharov prize for freedom of thought. The four members refused to applaud or stand for the winners, and the leader of…
News Sources: May 10, 2011 The European Parliament stripped parliamentary immunity from French far-right MEP Bruno Gollnisch following a complaint of “incitement to racial hatred.” French authorities will interview Gollnisch after asking for the move, following a complaint over an October 2008 press release issued by Rhone-Alpes regional authorities near Lyon, which Gollnisch led, that…
A debate organised by the British Council in collaboration with the European Policy Centre and the European Muslim Network. 10 November 2010, European Parliament, Brussels, Room A5E2, 10:00 to 12:30 (Registration and Coffee from 09:15) Are western societies becoming too individualistic? Are we more concerned with ourselves than our communities? If good citizenship is defined…
After the Najwa Malha affair and the ban on the burqa and the niqab in Lleida some political and religious actors have fixed their opinions on headscarves. The Speaker in the European Parliament of the Socialist Party of Spain (PSOE), López Aguilar, compared the hijab to the Catholic nuns’ head covering.
