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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Maybe France should join the group; only a few short centuries ago Calais was ruled from London It has all the makings of a love-in. Nicolas Sarkozy will today make a small piece of history when he becomes the first French president to attend a Commonwealth heads of government meeting. Sarkozy is to stop off in Trinidad and Tobago on his way home from the summit of Amazon countries he has attended...
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Weeks after a makeshift camp was dismantled in Calais, UNHCR continues to seek out and advise migrants and asylum-seekers along France?s northern coast.
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Our French chums are chafing at the latest price hikes for cigarettes - base line for a pack of 20 is €5.10, and €5.60 for a packet of Marlboros. If memory serves, the average smoking Briton would think a fiver for a packet of Phillip Morris's finest quite the bargain, and doubtless the tabacs and grand surfaces of Calais and thereabouts prove that. Anyway, estimates from BAT have some 22%...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Philippe Lioret's film shows how EU countries that persecute immigrants are only doing Britain's dirty work Audiences for Berlin award-winner Welcome are likely to be small but select. The hero is feisty enough to attempt to swim the Channel to get to Britain. He's no economic chancer or bogus asylum-seeker, but a good-looking star-crossed lover. All the same, the plight of a would-be illegal immigrant...
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The Daily Scatter (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A twenty year old Albanian set sail from Lyon in France on Sunday, embarking on a bid to sail his boat down the Rhone, through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic to England, in order to set the world record for a twenty year old solo Albanian in a boat. Regrettably, the attempt faltered heartbreakingly short of the world record, when he was forced to moor just fifty metres along the Rhone, missing...
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Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, has confirmed that he would be interested in the job of President of the European Council, and has criticised former Prime Minister Tony Blair's Euro-credentials, noting that the United Kingdom is not part of the eurozone (those countries using the € as their currency) nor part of the Schengen Agreement (which allows passport-free travel across...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Flight takes off from Paris as joint immigration crackdown prompts anger in France A British-chartered plane took off from Paris today, returning Afghan migrants to their home country in a joint immigration crackdown which has prompted criticism in France. The plane took off from Charles de Gaulle airport carrying three Afghan men "back to their country of origin", France's immigration minister,...
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Groupe socialiste (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Whereas French and British authorities are planning, in the coming days, the organisation of a charter flight via Bakou in Azerbaijan bound for Afghanistan, which should transport several dozens of afghan migrants, who were still present around the "Jungle" in Calais a few days ago: We, Member of the European Parliament, call upon the French and British authorities to renounce to any project...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Afghan people beeing expelled from Calais, France. (thanks Hadjar)
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Sovereignty Taxation Democracy. All Things Bright And... (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Day two of the third waffle week of this years LibLabContrick's, and their promises of how they intend to put right, all that bloody nonsense the Gay Gordon has left for you poor bloody Taxpayers to pay back. Let me assure you, there isn't one person living in this Country today, who will live long enough to see an end of it. Now have a look at todays Daily Express. http://www.express.co.uk/ On page...
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Jonkas' World (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Nearly got collared with a Dublin,Belfast today! We just happened to be talking about boats,Europe trips e.t.c in the office. I opened my mouth and said "I could just about do the Dover-Calais without being sick when we used to go blatting around Europe on bikes!" They very quickly jumped on it and said "Weve got 2 Dublins next week;,, we'll pencil you in!" ha,ha Look at me laughing!!...
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
In some erudite, parallel-universe version of our world, no earthlings ever form opinions about America's next invasion or diplomatic overture without scrutinizing their atlases, poring over press accounts in seven languages, and re-familiarizing themselves with the passages they underlined in their dog-eared volumes of Thucydides, Talleyrand, Kennan, Kissinger, Clausewitz, and Sun Tzu. But in our...
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Another Green World (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Join us in a demonstration at 5.30pm, on Tuesday 29th September 09, outside the French Embassy, 58 Kinghtsbridge, London SW1X 7JT. On the morning of Tuesday 22nd September, French police bulldozed the area known as the 'jungle' in Calais where migrants were living, destroying their homes and possessions and detaining around 300 people, including 132 children. Other migrants left before they could be...
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Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
(Paris) - Many of the hundreds of migrants arrested by French authorities following the destruction of their makeshift camp in Calais are at risk of being sent back to Greece, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Afghan boys living rough in Calais after destruction of 'jungle' camp The UN's refugee agency warned today that children as young as three are among the migrants attempting to reach Britain and that the number of unaccompanied refugee children is on the increase. There is evidence that ever younger children are attempting dangerous journeys around the world, said William Spindler, spokesman for the...
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