The Swiss government has decided it won’t attend an international conference in Marrakesh next month to sign a United Nations-backed agreement on migration. It said it wanted to wait for parliamentary debates on the issue…
A second part of Europe’s “debt” to Islam is often framed as an enrichment of Europe’s intellectual life by Islam during the Middle Ages.
Australia’s government announced Wednesday that it would reject the UN Migration Pact. Adopting the pact “would risk encouraging illegal entry to Australia and reverse… hard-won successes in combating the people-smuggling trade”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison…
Update: now The Times of Israel also reports that Israel will not sign the Pact. I removed the “probably” from the title.
Alessandro Strumia, a physicist at the European nuclear physics agency CERN dared to state that the fact that there are very few Noble-prize winners among females is maybe due to a larger number of very…
Croatia was seen for some time as one of the countries which will not endorse the Pact. Again and again it was described as one of the countries to pull out of the Pact. Its…
Prime Minister Jüri Ratas acknowledged that the Estonian government is now in crisis because there is a lack of unity among its member parties about the Pact. Justice Minister Urmas Reinsalu (Pro Patria) opposes the…
According to the CTK news agency, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced today (14.11.2018) that the Czech Republic will not sign the UN Global Migration Pact. But the situation as related to the Pact is much…
“Bulgaria has not taken a decision on joining the UN Pact on Migration and this cannot be done without discussion in parliament”, said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva. The complaint that this Pact, which will potentially have huge effects…
In Estonia, Reform Party MP Marko Mihkelson complained that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) has received no information about the procedure of the pact since a meeting in mid-March. At that meeting Minister of…