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Showing posts with label Strasbourg. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 14, 2022
Straßburg: Französisch verboten! | Stadt, Land, Kunst | ARTE
May 9, 2022 • Im Herzen der elsässischen Hauptstadt steht das historische Rathaus von Straßburg, eine Fassade dem eleganten Broglie-Platz zugewandt. Auf den Treppen des Gebäudes erklang erstmals die Marseillaise. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs jedoch war die französische Nationalhymne hier nicht geduldet, und in der Stadt tobte ein ideologischer Grabenkampf …
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Guy Verhofstadt Compares Nigel Farage to Blackadder Character
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
Merkel et Hollande veulent plus d'Europe face aux crises
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| Angela Merkel et François Hollande se sont tour à tour exprimés devant le parlement européen ce 7 octobre à Strasbourg. |
François Hollande et Angela Merkel ont réclamé mercredi un renforcement de l'intégration européenne pour faire face à la multiplication des crises. Se limiter à l'Etat-nation condamnerait, selon eux, l'Europe à l'impuissance et au déclin.
«Le débat n'est pas entre plus d'Europe et moins d'Europe, mais entre l'affirmation de l'Europe et la fin de l'Europe», a lancé le président français devant le parlement européen à Strasbourg. Le président français et la chancelière allemande se sont exprimés 26 ans après un exercice du même type mené par François Mitterrand et Helmut Kohl après la chute du Mur de Berlin.
François Hollande a cité la formule «le nationalisme, c'est la guerre», utilisée par François Mitterrand en 1995 devant la même assemblée pour l'un de ses derniers discours. Il a ajouté: «le nationalisme, c'est le déclinisme».
Le président français a insisté sur l'objectif «d'une fédération d'Etats-nations qui doit rester notre horizon», une idée défendue par Jacques Delors il y a 26 ans. «Rien n'est pourtant plus vain que de chercher à se sauver seul, à se dérober, à s'abriter quand des événements majeurs se produisent dans le monde entier», a-t-il ajouté. » | afp/nxp | mercredi 7 octobre 2015
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Britain Can Stay ‘In’, Says Juncker, But Then It Should Butt Out
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| David Cameron and Jean[-]Claude Juncker deep in discussion |
Even when times are tough American presidents always declare the state of their union to be “strong”, or something similarly optimistic, but after a year of near perpetual crisis in Europe Jean-Claude Juncker was past pretending: the European Union, he said, is not in “a good state”.
But if this occasion was a showcase for the European Commission president to lay down a vision for how to fix the continent’s ills, from the recent migrant crisis to the still-wobbly euro, it did not inspire confidence.
Mr Juncker spoke for 90 minutes – an absurdly long time – prescribing “more Europe” as the panacea for everything while being heckled from the upper slopes of the chamber by an assortment of anti-Federalist MEPs, including some from our own Ukip.
As a spectacle, it was risible – but that cannot distract from the fact that Mr Juncker is right about one thing: Europe’s challenges have now taken on an existential quality. » | Peter Foster | Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Monday, June 30, 2014
European Rights Court to Rule on French Burqa Ban
The 24-year-old university graduate has requested anonymity because of concern over the reaction to her lawsuit in France, where the law banning full-face veils in public spaces was approved in 2010 under former president Nicolas Sarkozy and has been fully backed by the current Socialist government.
The woman, identified only by her initials S.A.S., and her British legal team are seeking to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to categorize the French law as essentially discriminatory.
The defendant — who also has family in Britain’s second city of Birmingham — argues that the ban violates her rights to freedom of religion, expression and assembly, and is also discriminatory.
She is a “perfect French citizen with university education,” her British lawyer Tony Muman told the European court at a hearing last year. “She speaks of her country with passion... She is a patriot,” Muman had said. » | Yann Ollivier | AFP | Monday, June 30, 2014
Thursday, July 08, 2010
THE GUARDIAN: Police forced to abandon power to stop and search the public without reasonable suspicion after European court rules it illegal
The police's use of controversial counterterrorism stop and search powers against individuals is to be scrapped immediately, the home secretary announced today.
Under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, officers can stop and search anyone in a designated area without having to show reasonable suspicion. Interim operational guidelines to be issued to the police say that in future section 44 powers will be used only to search vehicles, and officers will have to have grounds for suspecting they are being used in connection with terrorism.
Section 44 stop and search powers were used on more than 148,798 occasions last year and have been a key element in the campaign against terrorism.
The home secretary's decision to scrap their use against individuals follows a ruling by the European court of human rights in January that the powers were unlawful because they were too broadly drawn and lacked sufficient safeguards to protect civil liberties.
The Strasbourg case was brought by peace protester Kevin Gillan and a journalist, Pennie Quinton, who were unlawfully abused when police stopped and searched them on their way to a demonstration outside the annual Excel centre arms fair in east London in 2003.
In an unexpected statement to the Commons today, May said she had taken urgent legal advice and consulted the police since the Strasbourg ruling was confirmed as final last Wednesday. "In order to comply with the judgment, but avoid pre-empting the review of counter-terrorism legislation, I have decided to introduce interim guidelines for the police," the home secretary told the Commons.
"I am therefore changing the test for authorisation for the use of section 44 powers from requiring a search to be 'expedient' for the prevention of terrorism, to the stricter test of it being 'necessary' for that purpose. And, most importantly, I am introducing a new suspicion threshold." >>> Alan Travis, home affairs editor | Thursday, July 08, 2010
Saturday, May 01, 2010
YNET NEWS: Anti-Semitic incident in Strasbourg: Man wearing skullcap assaulted by two men in djellabas. Victim hospitalized with serious injuries after being hit in back, stabbed in chest; assailants arrested
A Jewish French citizen was seriously hurt Friday after being assaulted with an iron rod and a knife in the center of Strasbourg.
The DPA news agency reported that the man, 42, was attacked by two men wearing djellabas, robes traditionally worn in North Africa.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Jew, who was wearing a traditional skullcap, was hit in the back with the iron rod by one of the men, while the other stabbed him in the chest. The two assailants were arrested, and one of them was said to be mentally ill.
A representative of the umbrella association for Jewish organizations in the French Alsace region, Pierre Levy, called the incident a "serious anti-Semitic act." >>> Ynet | Saturday, May 01, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: TRISTE ANNIVERSAIRE | Dix-huit tombes du cimetière juif du quartier Cronenbourg de Strasbourg ont été marquées de croix gammées, vraisemblablement la nuit dernière, annoncent le Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (Crif) et la police.
"Le cimetière juif de Cronenbourg a été profané, 18 stèles ont été taguées avec une croix gammée inscrite en couleur brune et 13 ont été renversées", a déclaré Patrick Roussel, commissaire principal de la Sûreté départementale du Bas-Rhin (est).
Laurent Schmoll, président de la communauté israélite de Strasbourg, a ajouté que l’inscription "Juden Raus" (Les Juifs dehors) avait également été relevée sur une tombe. >>> AFP | Mercredi 27 Janvier 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
BBC: An appeal against last month's decision by Swiss voters to ban minarets has been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The appeal was lodged by Hafid Ouardiri, an Algerian-born Muslim and a former spokesman for the Geneva Mosque.
Mr Ouardiri wants the court to rule that the ban is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Some 57.5% of Swiss voters and 22 out of 26 cantons - or provinces - voted in favour of the ban last month.
The referendum proposal was put forward by the Swiss People's Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament, which said minarets were a sign of Islamisation.
Switzerland's federal government had urged Swiss voters to reject it, warning it would contravene religious freedom and human rights and could stoke extremism. >>> | Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: REPORTAGE | Au moment où les Suisses votent pour ou contre les minarets, Strasbourg met sa Grande Mosquée sous toit. Et sans… minaret ! >>> Jean-Noël Cuénod à Strasbourg | Vendredi 27 Novembre 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
SLATE: Turkey's scheming at the Strasbourg summit proves it doesn't belong in the European Union.
The most underreported story of the month must surely be the announcement by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that he no longer supports the accession of Turkey as a full member of the European Union. His reasoning was very simple and intelligible, and it has huge implications for the Barack Obama "make nice" school of diplomacy.
At a NATO summit in Strasbourg in the first week of April, it had been considered a formality that the alliance would vote to confirm Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the prime minister of Denmark, as its new secretary-general. But very suddenly, the Turkish delegation threatened to veto the appointment. The grounds of Turkey's opposition were highly significant. Most important, they had to do with the publication of some cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2005 lampooning the Prophet Mohammed. In spite of an organized campaign of violence and boycott against his country, and in spite of a demand by a delegation of ambassadors from supposedly "Islamic" states, Rasmussen consistently maintained that Danish law did not allow him to interfere with the Danish press. Years later, resentment at this position led Turkey—which is under its own constitution not an "Islamic" country—to use the occasion of a NATO meeting to try again to interfere with the internal affairs of a member state.
The second ground of Turkey's objection is also worth noting. From Danish soil a TV station broadcasts in the Kurdish language to Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere. The government in Ankara, which evidently believes that all European governments are as untrammeled as itself, brusquely insists that Denmark do what it would do and simply shut the transmitter down. Once again unclear on the concepts of the open society and the rule of law—if the station is sympathetic to terrorism, as Ankara alleges, there are procedures to be followed—the Turkish authorities attempt a fiat that simply demands that others do as they say. >>> By Christopher Hitchens | Monday, April 20, 2009
Saturday, April 04, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Buildings were set on fire and running battles were fought between protesters and riot police in the streets of Strasbourg, where Barack Obama and world leaders have gathered for a Nato summit.
Anarchists and demonstrators set fires at a hotel, a disused border post and a tourism office around Strasbourg's Pont de l'Europe, a bridge that joins France and Germany.
Police fired volleys of teargas to try to stop groups of violent French and German protesters joining forces to rampage across the city.
Masked youths threw petrol bombs, smashed windows and ransacked shops, forcing police to retreat until riot officers could regroup to seize back control.
Eyewitnesses saw black-clad protesters storm the nearby Ibis hotel, pilfering alcohol from its bar and setting the building ablaze.
"The hotel and the other buildings were completely engulfed in flames," said a resident of the city who witnessed the mayhem. >>> By Bruno Waterfield and Peter Allen in Strasbourg | Saturday, April 4, 2009
LE FIGARO: Samedi matin, les forces de l'ordre ont fait usage de gaz lacrymogène pour repousser environ 1.800 personnes qui tentaient de pénétrer dans le centre-ville. Vingt-cinq personnes ont été interpellées.
De nouveaux heurts ont opposé samedi matin des manifestants anti-Otan aux forces de l'ordre, à Strasbourg, quelques heures avant une manifestation «monstre». Environ 1.800 personnes dispersées en plusieurs groupes ont tenté de pénétrer dans le centre-ville, et les policiers ont fait usage de gaz lacrymogène pour les repousser. Aucun blessé n'était signalé. Vingt-cinq personnes ont été interpellées.
Les manifestants qui espèrent encercler la zone d'accès restreint autour des sites du sommet pour en perturber le déroulement, se déplaçaient très rapidement d'un carrefour à l'autre, tentant de surprendre les forces de l'ordre. Parmi eux, il y a beaucoup de filles, de jeunes, beaucoup d'Allemands, avec des casquettes, des cagoules, des lunettes de soleil ou des masques respiratoires.
Un groupe d'une trentaine de personnes ayant réussi à franchir un pont sur un canal en direction du centre historique de la ville a été refoulé par des gendarmes mobiles qui ont tiré des gaz lacrymogènes. Ils ont retraversé le pont dans le calme, les mains levées en scandant «No NATO» («non à l'Otan»), avant de courir vers un autre carrefour, imités de l'autre côté du canal par les gendarmes.
«On est en train de gagner la guerre», s'est félicité un CRS en référence au succès des forces de l'ordre à maintenir, jusqu'ici, les militants en dehors de la ceinture strasbourgeoise. >>> lefigaro.fr avec AFP et AP | Samedi 04 Avril 2009
GALA.fr: Elles se sont rencontrées pour la première fois ce 3 avril à Strasbourg, en marge du premier tête-à-tête entre Barack Obama et Nicolas Sarkozy. Et en tant qu'épouses respectives des deux hommes les plus importants du monde, l'Américaine pointue et l'élégante Française ont mis un soin tout particulier ce matin en choisissant leur tenue. Tandis que Michelle Obama a une nouvelle fois porté haut les couleurs de son créateur fétiche Thakoon, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, plus classique mais tout aussi chic, a choisi la maison Dior. Décryptage de ce match mode. A Strasbourg, elles ont rivalisé d'élégance... >>> Perrine Sabbat | Vendredi 03 Avril 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: President Barack Obama has declared that America has "failed to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world" and has "shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" towards its allies.
His speech in Strasbourg went further than any United States president in history in criticising his own country's action while standing on foreign soil. But he sought to use the comments, which amount to a mea culpa for recent American foreign policy, as leverage to alter European views of America and secure more troops for the war in Afghanistan.
He declared that there had to be a fundamental shift on both sides of the Atlantic. "America is changing but it cannot be America alone that changes."
Addressing a crowd of some 2,000 mainly students from France and Germany, Mr Obama said: "In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
"Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
He then balanced this striking admission with a tough message to Europeans that blaming America and using its actions as an excuse to avoid tackling the global Islamist threat was unacceptable.
"But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual, but can also be insidious. Instead of recognising the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what is bad."
In a speech which his aides billed as a commitment to rebuild transatlantic relations by offering an olive branch directly to young Europeans, he offered himself as the figure who could bridge the gap that had grown over the eight years of President George W. Bush's administration.
"On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common," he said. "They are not wise. They do not represent the truth. They threaten to widen the divide across the Atlantic and leave us both more isolated.
"They fail to acknowledge the fundamental truth that America cannot confront the challenges of this century alone, but that Europe cannot confront them without America." >>> By Toby Harnden in Strasbourg | Friday, April 3, 2009
Thursday, July 12, 2007
THE GUARDIAN: Britain launched an attempt at the European court of human rights yesterday to overturn an 11-year-old judgment by the court which bans the deportation of suspected terrorists to countries where they face a risk of torture or degrading treatment.
The government has been trying for two years to find a way of challenging the Strasbourg court's judgment in the 1996 Chahal case, which has frustrated its attempts to expel suspects to such countries as Tunisia and Algeria.
It was given permission to intervene in a case brought against the Netherlands by Mohammed Ramzy, a 22-year-old Algerian terror suspect, but that case has been held up by procedural delays.
However, yesterday the court's grand chamber of 17 judges heard Britain's arguments when it intervened in another case, brought against the Italian government by Nassim Saadi, 23, a suspected terrorist and brother of a suicide bomber. He was convicted of criminal conspiracy in Italy and given a 20-year sentence by a Tunisian military court in his absence for belonging to a terrorist organisation abroad and incitement to terrorism. UK challenges Strasbourg ban (more) By Clare Dyer and Alan Travis
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