![]() ![]() SCOOP - FT BRUSSELS BUREAU CHIEF SET TO MOVE: POLITICO’s Alex Spence reports that Peter Spiegel will leave his role as the Financial Times Brussels bureau chief by early summer to become news editor. MEETING TODAY - SWEDES, DANES, GERMANS AND COMMISSION ON BORDER CHECKS: European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said Tuesday that the meeting’s aim “is to improve coordination between the countries concerned to ensure better management of migratory pressures.” An optimistic take on what all the new border controls could mean is published by Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter, which argues that stronger controls and coordination could finally lead to implementation of the EU’s currently mostly theoretical refugee resettlement policy: MIGRATION - WHY RELOCATION HAS BEEN A FLOP: “After eight months of summits, debates and joint declarations on what to do with the hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into Europe, one figure sums up the EU’s achievement so far: 272. That’s the number of asylum-seekers who have been relocated from the countries of their arrival to elsewhere in the bloc, according to statistics provided this week by the European Commission.” Maïa de la Baume reports: As of this morning Zadra is still listed as being a member of Juncker’s team. ANSA quotes Sandro Gozi, Italy’s undersecretary for Europe, as describing an effective demotion leading to Zadra’s resignation as “unacceptable.” Il Messagero, which picked up the story, describes the cause of the resignation as growing dispute over the “ Despotic ways of Martin Selmayr (Juncker’s chief of staff)” and the delegation of migration advice responsibilities to Michael Shotter over Zadra within Juncker’s team. MIGRATION - TURMOIL IN JUNCKER’S TEAM: Carlo Zadra, the only Italian national in the team of Jean-Claude Juncker, has resigned from his role as migration and justice adviser to the Commission president, reports the Italian news agency ANSA. They uses the latest techniques, like 3D smartphone tool Cardboard, to provide virtual reality tours for everyone, everywhere. **A message from Google: At the cutting edge of technology since 1794, Paris’ Musée des Arts et Métiers is a perfectly engineered partner for Google Cultural Institute. Another prosecutor confirms that Farage’s view on whether or not to push for police action is irrelevant because “In France, prosecutors can investigate even if the victim does not agree.” ![]() It is, more simply, because the police did not suspect a malicious act,” writes Moullot. On the question of whether to take further action: “If there is no investigation, it is not because Nigel Farage refused there is one, as he says. If Marquis could have spoken English to Farage he insists he would not have blamed sabotage. The prosecutor of Dunkirk (North) confirmed to Libération that an incident occurred but “The police could not see a sabotage, and would have been obliged to initiate criminal proceedings (if they had suspected sabotage).” ![]() ![]() Why? One of the mechanics who helped him - Philippe Marquis - told Libération the pair spoke only via hand gestures, as they did not share a language. on October 21, when he claimed French police told him someone had sabotaged his car? Not likely, writes Libération’s Pauline Moullot, who tracked down the French parties involved in helping Farage, and found “some aspects of the UKIP leader’s story are improbable, even a little romanticized.” But was someone out to get him as he drove home from Brussels to the U.K. THE TRUTH ABOUT NIGEL FARAGE’S FOURTH BRUSH WITH DEATH: The Euroskeptic MEP has survived cancer, a plane crash, and a severe car accident. THE LATEST - NORTH KOREA SAYS IT HAS DETONATED A HYDROGEN BOMB: Announcement comes after seismic detectors around the world sensed a 5.1 magnitude event along the country’s northeast coast Tuesday night. By Ryan Heath | Tips to | To read on your desktop click here ![]()
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