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BerlinStefan Andreas Wischniowski is 48 years old. He has worked for the Federal Police for 25 years. At the beginning of the year, the chief commissioner in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) launched a petition to the Bundestag.

LampedusaA boat loaded with illegal migrants who had left from the coast of North Africa, overturned while being escorted by Italian Coast Guard patrol boats.

NaplesGlobalists often maintain that the rightwing "spreads hatred" and in Italy they say that Matteo Salvini focuses only on certain "problems" to increase his consensus, creating a "climate of terror".

ParisThe evacuation of a migrant camp from Porte d'Aubervilliers to Paris did not go as planned. The operation was to take place on Thursday morning at dawn.

RomeA politically motivated probe in which former interior minister Matteo Salvini had been under investigation for abuse of office, was shelved by the Italian court of ministers, upholding a request by the Rome prosecutor's office, on Friday.

PragueThe thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Prague was celebrated on Sunday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, invited as a guest, said that thirty years ago central Europeans had been self-confident enough to declare their region as Europe’s future.

ParisWith 120 900 asylum applications registered in mid-November, France has now overtaken Germany in an historic first.

ParisManuel, a Yellow Vest member seriously injured during the first anniversary march in Paris, has laid a complaint against the Paris police prefect.

MoscowProduction self-sufficiency in the agro-industrial sector, energy-mining dominance and a focus on Eurasia are the three key issues that have been driving the Kremlin's foreign agenda since 2014, the year that marked the beginning of a new cold war against Russia.

CopenhagenA Princeton University study found a link between low social benefits and declining immigration.