February 13, 2016 A French mother living in Calais has claimed police are forbidden from attending a ‘Muslim only’ part of the migrant camp and said she lives in constant fear that she will be attacked or robbed. In an impassioned speech posted online, Simone Hericourt described how migrants had defaced a Charles de Gaulle…
February 10, 2016 In the current German debate on immigration, reservations and fears about the new arrivals are not confined to the ethnically German population. In November 2015, according to a YouGov survey commission by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, 40 per cent of Germans with a migration background asserted that Germany ought to take…
February 5, 2016 In a further instance of violence against a refugee shelter, a hand grenade was thrown at an accommodation unit for asylum seekers in the Black Forest town of Villingen-Schwenningen in southern Germany. This latest incident comes after the year 2015 witnessed a massive spike in xenophobic violence, a trend which garnered further…
January 27, 2016 Atlantico: What can we take away from this poll; in what context was it carried out? Jérôme Fourquet : We see that the state of opinion regarding the question of welcoming refugees in France has remained stable, compared with a previous poll carried out the week after the Paris attacks. Since April…
January 13, 2015 The Moroccan-Dutch politician Khadija Arib (Labour Party) has been chosen as the new chairwoman for the Dutch parliament. She defeated Ton Elias (Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy), Martin Bosma (Party for Freedom), and Madeleine van Toorenburg (Christian Democrat Party), who were also candidates. The Labour Party-politican thanks the members of parliament…
