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Old October 11th, 2020 #1381
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Here's an article from May about how the anti-white NGO known as "Freedom House" is attacking the Hungarian people for refusing to be overrun by third-world rapists and murderers, and for refusing to brainwash their children with the insane, harmful, jew-created "transgender" garbage:

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Hungary Slams ‘Biased’ Freedom House Reports, Always Say Democracy In Decline When Conservatives In Power




JACK MONTGOMERY 7 May 2020

The Hungarian government has taken aim at the U.S. government-funded Freedom House organisation for claiming Hungary is no longer a “free country”, noting that its reports only say democracy is improving in the country when “Socialists and Liberals” hold office.

The Washington D.C.-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) claimed in its latest Nations In Transit report there had been “a stunning democratic breakdown” in countries in Central Europe such as Hungary and Poland — where, perhaps not coincidentally, traditional conservative governments opposed to globalism and mass migration are enjoying unprecedented electoral success.

“The report says that this year’s – wait for it – ‘decline has been the most precipitous ever tracked in Nations in Transit,'” observed Dr Zoltán Kovács, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations.

“And that’s really saying something because Hungary declines every year in Freedom House studies, except when the Socialists and Liberals were in power,” he added dryly.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...vatives-power/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House

"Freedom House" is run by people named Jeffrey Hirschberg and Michael J. Abramowitz. What more needs to be said?

 
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Freedom House is a U.S.-based,[4] U.S. government-funded[5] non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights.[6]
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In 2006, the Financial Times reported that Freedom House received funding by the State Department for 'clandestine activities' inside Iran.[70] According to the Financial Times, "Some academics, activists and those involved in the growing US business of spreading freedom and democracy are alarmed that such semi-covert activities risk damaging the public and transparent work of other organisations, and will backfire inside Iran."[70]
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As for why the Freedom House index is most often quoted in the United States, she notes that its definition of democracy is closely aligned with US foreign policy. US-allied countries tend to get better scores than in other reports. However, because the report is important to US lawmakers and politicians, weaker states seeking US aid or favor are forced to respond to the reports, giving the Freedom House significant influence in those places.[86]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House

A crooked, warmongering, neocon, jew-run NGO/think tank named "Freedom House". Now that's typical Orwellian newspeak. Or rather, jewspeak.
 
Old October 12th, 2020 #1383
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Amazingly, one of Italy's major right-wing newspapers, La Verità, has now published secret recordings in which these crooked magistrates insult Salvini and admit that he was right for blocking the rapeugees, but that they'll still bring him down for political reasons.

This is obviously outrageous, and it's becoming a huge scandal in Italy, yet the international media are completely ignoring it. The only English-language article I could find about this subject was published on some small and obscure Israeli news site that's run by people who don't even have basic knowledge of the English language.

Unfortunately, this makes perfect sense because, as I've said before, jews usually report the facts in Israeli media outlets while hiding them in Western ones since jews believe that they're the only ones who should have access to the truth.

Anyway, here's the article from News1:


https://www.news1.news/en/2020/05/at...uotidiano.html
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So Salvini is (once again) being charged with kidnapping for refusing to let dangerous third-world savages disembark in Italy when he was the interior minister. He could face up to 15 years in prison, and the magistrates that are responsible for the charges have admitted that they don't really have a legal case, and that they're only going after him for political reasons. That's mind-boggling, when you think about it.

One of the crooked magistrates involved in this scandal, Luca Palamara, is trying to do damage control by apologizing to Salvini for his disgraceful words, and once again, the small and obscure news site News1 is the only international media outlet that's covering the story:


https://www.news1.news/en/2020/05/re...uotidiano.html

Palamara is famous in Italy, he's the former President of the National Magistrates Association (ANM), and he has been accused of corruption before:


https://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...9f187ee92.html

Not a single word about this important news story on any of the major English-language news sites. Not a single word.
Here's the latest on the crooked magistrate Luca Palamara who participated in the witch-hunt against Salvini:

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Palamara struck off as magistrate


Former head of magistrates union at centre of cronyism.case

09 October 2020
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(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 9 - The judiciary's self-governing body, the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM), on Friday struck off former magistrates union ANM chief Luca Palamara from the profession amid a Perugia probe into alleged corruption and cronyism.
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Also involved is former sports minister Luca Lotti, who has suspended himself from his centre-left Democratic Party (PD) in the wake of the publication of wiretaps.

In other wiretaps, Palamara allegedly boasted of his ability to influence the appointment of prosecutors to key positions.


Palamara is the first former CSM councillor and the first former ANM head to be struck off as a magistrate. (ANSA).
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/202...96c4771b2.html

Note that the former sports minister Luca Lotti, who belongs to the ruling, unelected, jew-controlled Democratic Party, is involved in this scandal.

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Luca Lotti (born 20 June 1982) is an Italian politician who has served as the Minister for Sport from 2016 to 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Lotti

And once again, all the big English-language media outlets ignore this important case, even though they've published countless articles about Italy.
 
Old October 12th, 2020 #1384
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Yes, that's the kind of stuff I usually think of when I see all these pictures of African rapists and murderers pouring into Europe.

Good grief...[/QUOTE]

with david attenborough narrating and giving commentaries..
 
Old October 12th, 2020 #1385
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Here's the latest on the crooked magistrate Luca Palamara who participated in the witch-hunt against Salvini:
Palamara is just the tip of the iceberg. The other crooked, leftist, jew-controlled magistrates are still there, and they're the ones who are now charging Salvini with kidnapping for refusing to let dangerous third-world savages disembark in Italy when he was the country's interior minister.
 
Old October 12th, 2020 #1386
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Jew-controlled Twitter censors American politician for telling the truth about the third-world rapists and murderers that the globalist jews are dumping in Italy and other European countries:

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Twitter Censors Senate Candidate Lauren Witzke’s Immigration Views as ‘Hateful Conduct’




ALLUM BOKHARI 10 Oct 2020

Twitter locked the account of Lauren Witzke, the Republican party candidate in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race, over a tweet highlighting the impact of mass migration into Europe. According to Twitter, messages against mass immigration are “hateful conduct.”

“Let’s be clear, mass migration absolutely destroyed Europe,” said Witzke in her tweet. “Italy, France, Sweden and Germany took in tons of migrants who never assimilated. Rapes, murders, and other heinous crimes abound. I will end ALL immigration into the US for ten years.”

Twitter said the tweet violates its rules against “hateful conduct,” warning the senate candidate that repeated violations would result in the termination of her access to the platform.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/...teful-conduct/

Meet Twitter's jewish "integrity czar" Yoel Roth:

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Kellyanne Conway unleashes Trumpers on Twitter integrity czar Yoel Roth — over new fact-checking policy and his own tweets


BY RON KAMPEAS MAY 27, 2020 12:49 PM

(...) Since 2018, Roth has been the head of Twitter’s integrity team, which his LinkedIn page describes as being “responsible for policy development, implementation, and investigations for spam, data privacy and security, information operations, election security, and misinformation.” It also directs “Twitter’s efforts to combat information operations and suspected state-backed activity.”

Roth, who is Jewish, has led efforts to address the recent surge of anti-Semitic harassment on Twitter. He said in 2018 that a focus was on bot networks spreading anti-Semitism.
https://www.jta.org/2020/05/27/polit...t-check-policy

Yoel Roth. "Trust me, goyim."



 
Old October 12th, 2020 #1387
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Here's a new article about the jew-backed rapeugee invasion of Great Britain:

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Judges Block Deportation of Migrant Drug Dealer, Cite ‘Human Rights’


Jack Montgomery 12 Oct 2020

Judges have once again thwarted deportation efforts by Priti Patel’s Home Office, blocking the removal of a convicted drug dealer from Nigeria.

An immigration tribunal judge had ruled that deporting the drug dealer would infringe on the European right to a family life, codified by the Labour-era Human Rights Act which the Conservatives have declined to repeal, as he has a “partner” and children in Britain.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...-human-rights/
 
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Infowars Europe Visits Berlin Headquarters Of NGOs Implicated In Migrant Smuggling Operations

https://www.infowars.com/posts/infow...ng-operations/
 
Old October 13th, 2020 #1389
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Infowars Europe Visits Berlin Headquarters Of NGOs Implicated In Migrant Smuggling Operations

https://www.infowars.com/posts/infow...ng-operations/
Great find, Paul. From your link:

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German MP Petr Bystron brings Infowars Europe to the Berlin headquarters of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) implicated in migrant smuggling operations in the Mediterranean region and elsewhere.

Within minutes, Antifa operatives monitoring the site informed their associates about the crew’s presence, prompting a quick exit.
Of course, the anti-white terrorist group known as "Antifa" is thoroughly jewish, which we can read about in the following jewish media outlets:

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The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia


By Mark B. Williams

August 24, 2017

While watching the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia – the violence that erupted between marching neo-Nazis and Antifa protesters – I can’t help but think back to what was the original “Antifa”, a group of Jews, whom my father told me about from his childhood, growing up as a poor Jewish kid in Newark, New Jersey.
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In the late 1930’s, there was a legal pro-Nazi movement called the German-American Bund. The Bund started having large rallies in North Jersey and elsewhere, with the goal of keeping the US from entering World War II on the side of the allies. Most Americans of the time were deeply isolationist. The last thing they wanted to do was send American boys to fight and die in another European war. So the Bund’s activities were not that surprising, and found fertile ground in many quarters. But the local Jewish population was alarmed by the pro-Nazi rhetoric of the Bund, not to mention the sight of brown-shirted activists chanting and sharing Nazi salutes right here in the good old USA.

The leading lights of the Jewish community asked the local police and Sherriff’s offices to stop these gatherings, but, getting no help, decided to raise the matter to a higher authority. They appealed for protection to the Jewish mob boss of Newark, Abner “Longie” Zwillman. Zwillman agreed to help. He had his chief enforcer, ex-prize fighter Sidney Nathan Abramowitz (better known as “Nat Arno”, the name by which he is immortalized in the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame) organize a “civil rights group”, which they called “the Minutemen.”

My cousin Cocky Jake was a card-carrying member of the Minutemen, and his picture appears in newspaper accounts of the day. The Minutemen were essentially an armed group of Jewish mobsters, thugs, and wise guys like Jake. When Nat Arno gave the word that the Nazis were assembling, these denizens of the saloons, pool halls and other dens of iniquity in North Jersey would leave their usual haunts and head to the Nazi rallies. Much like today’s Antifa, the Minutemen’s preferred tools of persuasion were not logic and reason, but baseball bats, brass knuckles, rubber coated pipes and the occasional stink bomb.

The Minutemen were largely successful. Most of these pro-Nazi rallies were broken up before they got started. And the Nazis managed to get away with just a few broken bones and bruises, as Longie had decreed that no one was to be killed during these events.
https://archive.fo/KPfni

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Opinion // Trump's Attacks on Antifa Are Attacks on Jews


American Jews cannot support Trump's 'war' on anti-fascism and his camp's conspiracy theories about the 'hidden hand' behind legitimate protest and dissent

Ari Paul
Published on 07.06.2020

(...) As the protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd have raged, with as many as 11 protesters dead by police hands nationwide, President Donald Trump announced he would designate Antifa – short for anti-fascist – as a "domestic terrorist organization."

To start with, Trump’s statement about Antifa is absurd on multiple levels. It isn’t clear he has the legal authority to do so. And Antifa isn’t an organization, but a philosophy that guides anti-fascist street organizing. Who is its leader? What is its structure? Where is it based? How do you become a member? These questions have no answers because there are none. But no matter: it's certainly filler for Trump’s campaigning.

Trump’s public statement about Antifa should be terrifying, as any attempt to vilify anti-fascism by nature defends fascism a positive thing. But picking on anti-fascists as the scapegoat and hidden hand of the ongoing unrest is inherently anti-Semitic.

As the ADL reported, conspiracies about George Soros funding the unrest abound on the anti-Semitic American far-right.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who serially expresses extreme anti-immigrant views and flirtations with white nationalism, blasted Trump for his inaction in response to the protests, blaming the White House’s weakness on Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the administration’s most prominent Jew. Trump’s most recent of many instances of overt anti-Semitism was his praise of the "good blood lines" of Nazi-admirer, eugenicist and infamous anti-Semite Henry Ford.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.pre...jews-1.8902330

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Your top 9 Yiddish antifa anthems: a revolutionary playlist


Seth Rogovoy June 5, 2020

The Yiddish roots of antifa – the anti-fascist movement whose precursors date back at least as far as opposition to the Russian czar – have been well documented. They are also enshrined in a canon of Yiddish antifa songs – songs of resistance, anarchism, revolution, and workers’ rights – that listeners might find eerily resonant and applicable to our present moment.

Herewith, an annotated list of the Yiddish Antifa Top 9:
https://forward.com/culture/448163/y...nary-playlist/









 
Old October 13th, 2020 #1390
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21 of 57 Newly Arrived Migrants Landing in Italy Test Positive for Coronavirus


CHRIS TOMLINSON 13 Oct 2020

21 out of 57 migrants who arrived illegally in the Italian town of Roccella Ionica in Calabria have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.

The migrants landed in Italy on Saturday night and consisted mostly of Iranian and Iraqi nationals, some of them underage. They were tested for the Wuhan coronavirus, and at least 21 were found to be positive.

The results come as Italian interior minister Luciana Lamorgese claimed that migrants were not bringing coronavirus to Italy and that the proportion of migrants that had tested positive for the virus was small in comparison to the total number arriving, Il Giornale reports.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...e-coronavirus/
 
Old October 13th, 2020 #1391
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Here's a recent example of how jew-sponsored third-world savages behave in Sweden:


https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...h-swedish-bus/

As I've said before, most of Sweden's major newspapers are controlled by one jewish family, Bonnier, and they excrete anti-Swedish, pro-rapeugee, pro-homosexual propaganda non-stop.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnier_family

And it's not just the media; jews are also vastly overrepresented in Sweden's political parties, feminist movement and the church. (Yes, really. The most prominent priests and bishops in the Church of Sweden are jews who "converted" to Christianity in order to destroy it from within. Helle Klein and Åke Bonnier are two examples, you can read their English-language Wikipedia pages.)

All these "Swedish" jews use their position to promote multiculturalism/third-world immigration, which you can read about in the following thread:

Jewish academic says that jews will lead the new, multicultural Europe

https://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=551227
A typical third-world immigrant in Sweden:

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Iraqi Convicted of Beheading Swedish Teen Pleads Innocence at Appeal


CHRIS TOMLINSON 10 Oct 2020

Iraqi migrant Tishko S. has maintained his innocence during an appeal after he was convicted in July of murdering Swedish teen Wilma Andersson and dismembering her body.

The appeal against the conviction and sentencing for the 23-year-old ended Thursday and saw the Iraqi migrant give a speech to the court in which he professed his innocence, stating: “There is not a drop of blood on my hands, I loved Wilma more than life.”

The claim runs contrary to the fact the teen’s severed head was found in the Iraqi’s apartment following the murder, which took place in November of last year.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...nce-at-appeal/
 
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Sweden: Thousands of 2015 Crisis Migrants Have Allegedly Disappeared




CHRIS TOMLINSON 7 Oct 2020

Around 24,000 migrants who arrived during the height of the 2015 crisis are living in Sweden without permission or have disappeared, according to the migration board.

Of the 163,000 migrants who arrived in Sweden five years ago, the vast majority, 98,500, have been granted some form of residency. However, only 31,000 of those without a permit have left Sweden since 2015, leaving thousands of migrants unaccounted for.

Ten thousand migrants remain in the country with no residency permit at all. Another 14,000 have vanished, and Swedish authorities do not know where they are, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports. Another 8,000 are said to be in the process of having their asylum claim decided; many of them have applied more than once.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...y-disappeared/

Yeah, that's what happens when your country is controlled by jews.
 
Old October 14th, 2020 #1394
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According to media reports, rapeugees are once again rioting in Italian migrant reception centers.
 
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The jew-backed rapeugee invasion of Italy continues...

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Migrants: Lampedusa under pressure, 37 landings in two days


By ANSA Published on : 2020/10/13

After a three-week-long lull, landings have resumed on the Italian island of Lampedusa. A total of 37 landings were reported between Saturday and Sunday October 10-11 which brought the arrival of over 800 migrants.

Landings resumed over the weekend on the island of Lampedusa. After three weeks of calm, the migrant hotspot on the small Sicilian island is once again overcrowded.

The situation is not as alarming as on September 21, when the center in Imbriacola hosted 1,200 people in a space originally designed to house 200. However, the situation is critical after 824 migrants reached Lampedusa with 37 landings over the weekend, including 22 on Sunday.
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post...gs-in-two-days

 
Old October 14th, 2020 #1396
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Mayor Says Parents Fear for Children After Migrant Centre Becomes Crime Hotspot


CHRIS TOMLINSON 10 Oct 2020

The mayor of a German city has said locals are afraid to let their children out alone because of growing criminality at an asylum seeker centre housing hundreds of migrants.

André Knapp, the mayor of the city of Suhl in Thuringia, said that locals are on edge due to the rampant criminality at a reception centre that currently hosts around 600 asylum seekers. Mr Knapp has also come out against suggestions that the city should take in even more migrants.

Police said that from January to mid-May there had been at least 200 reported crimes involving residents of the asylum home, Focus reports.

“Problems usually concern young men from North Africa, especially after excessive consumption of alcohol,” Knapp told the magazine. He mentioned particular concern for children walking through the city centre after a recent stabbing.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...crime-hotspot/

Thanks, Shlomo, for bringing these people to Europe. You're a real mensch.

 
Old October 14th, 2020 #1397
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Italy's crooked, unelected, jew-controlled government is constantly working to destroy the country:

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Italy's interior minister urges citizenship reform


By ANSA Published on : 2020/10/14

Italian interior minister Luciana Lamorgese said Monday that the "time has come" for citizenship reform in the country but that it must be within parliament.

She made the comment in an interview with the La Via Libera magazine, reiterating that in recent months migration management "has become much more difficult."
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post...zenship-reform
 
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Pope Francis keeps cucking for his jewish masters by spreading harmful anti-white, pro-rapeugee propaganda, even though he knows full well how dangerous these third-world savages are:

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Pope Francis Meets Parents of Priest Stabbed to Death by Tunisian Immigrant


Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 14 Oct 2020

ROME — Pope Francis met with the parents of Father Roberto Malgesini, an Italian priest who was stabbed to death last month by a Tunisian immigrant to whom he had given assistance.

At around 7:00am on September 15, the priest was repeatedly stabbed outside his home in the northern Italian city of Como by 53-year-old Mahmoudi Ridha, a Muslim man Father Malgesini had helped on a number of occasions.

After being arrested, Ridha reportedly said that the priest had “died like a dog” and that “it was the way it should be.”
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“The tears of those parents are ‘their’ tears and both of them know how much they suffered in seeing this son who gave his life in the service of the poor,” Francis said. “When we want to console someone, we don’t find the words. Because? Because we cannot get to his pain, because ‘his’ pain is his, ‘his’ tears are his.”

“The same is true of us: the tears, ‘my’ sorrow is mine, the tears are ‘mine’ and with these tears, with this pain I turn to the Lord,” he added.
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Ridha Mahmoudi, who confessed to the crime but later retracted his confession, originally told investigators that he had attacked the priest out of fear of being expelled from Italy, given his criminal record that identified him as dangerous as well as two deportation orders dated 2018 and April 2020.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigratio...ian-immigrant/

 
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Italy's crooked, unelected, jew-controlled government is constantly working to destroy the country:
It never ends...

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Italy 'to allow 18,000 non-EU seasonal farmhands in'


By ANSA Published on : 2020/10/14

The Italian farmers association Coldiretti said Monday that an interior ministry decree will make it possible for 18,000 non-EU seasonal workers to enter Italy. The association called it an "important measure for work in the fields in autumn."

Italy has given the green light for 18,000 non-EU seasonal workers to enter the country. Requests can be sent online via the interior ministry website until December 3, the country's largest farmers association Coldiretti said Monday, October 12.

The association underscored that the 2020 decree on immigration flows by the interior ministry, published in the official gazette, is especially important for addressing the lack of foreign seasonal workers in agriculture due in part to border and quarantine issues resulting from COVID-19 measures.
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post...l-farmhands-in
 
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Populism in Europe is dead, you say? It’s not even sick! It’s gone mainstream – despite what the liberals would have you believe


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is a UK journalist, ex-Fleet Street editor, financial industry consultant and political communications special advisor in the UK and EU.


14 Oct, 2020 15:48



While immigration may not be the primary issue gripping the continent at present, thanks to Covid-19, populist attitudes are now embedded in the national conversation, though those of a liberal persuasion may be loath to admit it.

The liberals are rubbing their hands with glee. They told us it wouldn’t last, that it would never take a hold and that, in the end, everyone would see things their way. But the idea that right-wing populism is dead is both misguided and premature. Because the bugbear of Europe’s political elite is actually stronger than ever.

Sure, the faces we associate with populism, such as Italy’s Matteo Salvini and the UK’s Nigel Farage, may not be plastered all over our newspapers or television screens like they were just a year or two ago, but the reason for that is the ideas they represented and trumpeted across the European political stage have taken root.

One issue at the heart of right-wing populism has been immigration and, while the pandemic has hijacked the national conversation and political debate in most quarters, the policies, the language and the rhetoric surrounding that very much on-the-menu issue right now are pure populism.

Twelve months ago, no British Conservative politician who valued their job, however radical, would have dreamt of airing ideas about processing immigrants on disused ferries in the middle of the English Channel, or sending refugees to windswept outposts in the Atlantic until we could figure out what to do with them.

But these off-the-wall ideas, talk of a points-based visa system, swamping dinghies packed with illegal immigrants with wave machines and calling in the Royal Navy to stop the flow of asylum seekers onto Britain’s southern beaches, would not have looked out of place at a Farage-led UKIP conference five years ago.
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Meanwhile, in France, no one ever talks of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National as some right-wing, fly-by-night populist set-up, despite her tendency to change policies as often as her smartly tailored suits, depending on the public mood.

For those looking for an alternative to President Macron and his En Marche party, Le Pen is the only game in town, and while the electoral system does her no favours in failing to aid her attempts at reaching the Élysée Palace, were she to get there, she carries a guaranteed swag of right-wing votes, which would gift her a central role in deciding who takes the top job.

The Italians have their own populist bad-ass in Matteo Salvini. Although he and his Lega Nord party were all over the media last year, the catastrophic effect that coronavirus has had on Italy, particularly in his heartland to the north, has impacted that.

After Italians witnessed, on the television news, military trucks carting piles of corpses away from mortuaries, it was always going to be difficult for the charismatic leader to maintain his impetus and keep his key issue, migration, in the spotlight.

But it’s not just Covid-19 that has made life difficult for Salvini – there’s a new kid on the block. The genuinely far-right Brothers of Italy are now competing for the same hearts and minds that once belonged to the Lega Nord, and they’re toying with the same issues and successfully providing an alternative.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/503488-popu...pe-dead-covid/
 
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