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JD Vance’s warning on Europe’s future shines spotlight on continent’s growing list of problems
Following Vice President JD Vance’s warning that Europe was at risk of ‘engaging in civilizational suicide,’ the continent has come under the microscope for largely failing to deal with mass migration from mostly Third World countries. Associated with that has been a massive rise in violent crime and a failing economy.
Freedom of speech is under attack as many complain of a two-tier justice system and, making things even more problematic, Europe’s economy is not performing as expected.
United Kingdom
The U.K.’s economy has remained stagnant for the last three years with no growth in per capita income. «The country has pathetic performance, says Ben Habib, chairman of the Great British Political Action Committee, and former co-deputy leader of Reform UK. «The U.K. has become even worse than Europe.»
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The Houses of Parliament in London, England, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Migration is now a national talking point. Immigration increased to between 1.2 and 1.3 million in 2022 and 2023, up from around 800,000 before the pandemic. It’s causing friction.
«National togetherness is now being torn to shreds as unprecedented levels of mass migration transform parts of our country beyond recognition,» observed Conservative Party Member of Parliament Robert Jenrick in a column for the UK Conservative & Reformer Post. «We have imported ethnic and religious tensions, meaning that conflicts on the other side of the world play out on Britain’s streets.»
Earlier this week, the State Department said it was monitoring the case of a woman in Britain who was put on trial for holding a sign offering counseling to women outside an abortion facility in the United Kingdom.
Fox News Digital reported the woman said, «Great Britain is supposed to be a free country, yet I’ve been dragged through court merely for offering consensual conversation … peaceful expression is a fundamental right—no one should be criminalized for harmless offers to converse.»
New Scotland Yard on October 2, 2008, in London, England. ((Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images))
Violent assaults have also marred many parts of the U.K., when compared to other members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD.) Scotland topped the list with 1,487 assaults per 100,000 people, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. England and Wales ranked number three on the list with 730 violent assaults per 100,000 residents.
Fox News Digital previously reported that Britain was facing a free speech crisis due to the new left-leaning government, overzealous policing and courts cracking down on freedom of expression. Last August, the government warned its citizens to be mindful of posting content deemed offensive and threatened imprisonment. The Crown Prosecution Service posted a warning to social media platform X, which was amplified by the government’s official social media accounts, warning citizens, «Think before you post!»
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the White House, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)
France
France’s economy has expanded in each of the last four years, but the rate of growth slowed dramatically. France also has a high debt level that will make it hard for the economy to grow fast, Venetis says.
Migration is a continuing problem in France with an influx of 317, 000 immigrants from outside the EU in 2022, up from 222,000 in 2013.
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Right-wing politicians, such as those in the National Rally, are highlighting the friction that the influx of people who don’t want to integrate into French society. National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, who up until this week was a leading candidate for the country’s 2027 presidential election, was just given a two-year prison sentence by a French court, which found her and other party colleagues guilty of embezzling public funds. Le Pen called the sentence a ‘death sentence,’ and said she felt they were «only interested» in preventing her from running for president.
Violent assaults in France ranked near the middle of the OECD list with 310 cases per 100,000 in the population.
United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Germany
Germany’s economy has been in a recession for the last two years. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate increased to 6.3% in March, from 5.9% last April. That’s partly due to soaring energy prices and competition from China.
«People are not happy about the fact that unemployment is picking up,» says Konstantinos Venetis, an economist at TS Lombard. He also says the statistics mask many workers’ reduced paid hours on the job. «The amount of people on this status has gone up considerably.»
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Migration surged to 1.6 million non-EU immigrants in 2022, up from less than half a million in 2021.
Germany’s right-wing populist AfD party has pushed to deport migrants seeking asylum, and its message gained traction with voters during February’s national election, where it came in second with 20.7% of the vote. The winning conservative Christian Democrats party was forced to adopt stronger immigration policies as a result of AfD’s success with voters.
The country had a relatively high number of violent assaults, ranking sixth in the OECD list with 630 cases per 100,000 people.
Italy
Giorgia Meloni is seen during a press conference. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right and national-conservative party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), commented on the party’s victory at the Italian elections, held on 25 September 2022, at Parco Principi Hotel in Rome. (Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The third-largest economy in the EU has grown every quarter since the end of the pandemic, although, like many countries, the rate of growth has slowed.
At the same time, the debt level as a percentage of GDP dropped to 135% last year versus 138% in 2022 when Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni took over.
Meloni has been credited with her hard stance on illegal migrants. In 2024, the number of migrants totaled 67,317, down almost 60% from 157,651 the previous year. The drop is at least partly due a deal between Italy and Albania to enhance border controls, creating legal ways to immigrate and deterring illegal entry to the country.
Violent assaults were low at 110 per 100,000 residents.
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Poland
Poland’s economy grew by 2.9% last year, slightly more than the estimated 2.8% growth in the U.S., all while beefing up its defense sector and housing an influx of Ukrainians due to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
«Poland is a powerhouse and has national pride,» Habib says. «It’s a phenomenal country.»
The country also has a low level of asylum requests of 9,513 and 17,038 in 2023 and 2024, respectively. That compares to 237,314 in neighboring Germany.
Polish farmers and other protesters gather in downtown Warsaw to protest the European Union’s climate policies and Poland’s pro-EU government, in Warsaw, Poland, on May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Levels of asylum claims in Poland are likely to remain low as Prime Minister Donald Tusk doubled down on illegal immigration. Late last month (March) he temporarily suspended the rights of immigrants to claim asylum.
«I believe that it is necessary to strengthen the security of our borders and the security of Poles,» said Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, who signed off on the bill, as reported by Euro News.
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Poland had the lowest violent assault ranking in the OECD list at two cases per 100,000
Hungary
Hungarian Prime Minister and President of EU Council Viktor Orban speaks as he attends the League’s annual gathering in Pontida, north of Milan, Italy, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Hungary’s economy suffered a setback in 2023 but is now recovering, with growth of 0.4% in the fourth quarter of last year. Analysts at Trading Economics project that the country will grow by 2.7% next year and 3.6% in 2027.
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Migration from outside Europe has remained low at 57,000 in 2022 versus 45,000 in 2023. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban recently tweeted: «Don’t be afraid to stand alone. When 26 others accepted mass migration, we built a fence and said no. Now, more and more PMs are saying exactly what Hungary said ten years ago—they’ve realized we were right.»
Violent assaults in Hungary ranked low with 124 cases per 100,000 people.
Fox News Digital’s Kristine Parks contributed to this article.
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‘Homeland would’ve been stolen’: AK Natives sound off on Biden energy bans as Trump officials tour tundra
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FIRST ON FOX: Alaska Natives and residents of the vast North Slope Borough communities along the Arctic Ocean got a rare chance this week to directly discuss their concerns with White House officials, typically 3,500 miles away in Washington.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin joined Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and local residents in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) as part of a multi-day visit to the oil and gas fields, workers and neighbors in the frigid but crucial region.
Charles Lampe, a Native resident of Kaktovik – the main remote community within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) a few hundred miles eastward – said until President Donald Trump and the officials assembled in Utqiagvik took office, North Slope residents and their energy development hopes felt besieged by that same far-flung federal government.
Lampe voiced similar concerns to those Fox News Digital had been told in the past by Alaska officials, in that environmental activists in the Lower 48 and federal officials who ideologically align with them have tried speaking for them in opposition to developing ANWR and other sites where none of those same activists live.
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State and federal officials visit the North Slope Borough. (US Dept of Energy & US Dept of Interior)
«There’s one thing that I want to bring up – we were under attack in Kaktovik by environmental groups,» Lampe said.
«On Day 1, President Trump told the Fish and Wildlife Department to deny their requests. And that was such an amazing thing for us to be able to see. And we were so proud of our president then because he made sure that our ancestral homelands weren’t going to be stolen – and [instead] protected,» Lampe said, as many in the North Slope actually support the development of their Native homelands versus cordoning them off through regulation – as they bring jobs and resources.
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«So I really need to bring back this immense gratitude to President Trump for that action and being able to write something that, if the other guy (Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) would have won, there’s no doubt in my mind that our homeland would have been stolen and there’s nothing we could have done about it,» he said.
«Trump had the heart and the wherewithal to be able to right this wrong.»
He told Burgum to invite Trump to Kaktovik to see ANWR and its «Section 1002» – the oil and gas development sector – for himself.
Burgum said he believes Trump would be open to the opportunity – and that the president has already pleasantly surprised regional corporate stakeholders with his openness to questions that the oil companies felt loath to even consider asking a president.
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«President Trump does care super deeply about this and at a deep level,» Burgum said, adding the president shocked ConocoPhillips representatives in a recent meeting when he asked what they needed to improve their North Slope operations.
When the company noted improved roads would be helpful, Trump asked rhetorically why a road couldn’t be built, according to Burgum.
«[They] were kind of like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know we could ask that.’»
Wright also addressed the Utqiagvik meeting, and added in separate comments that he visited the Prudhoe Bay Discovery Well – a 1960s operation that first opened Alaska to energy development and at one point represented one-quarter of U.S. oil output.
«Unfortunately, the last few decades have seen a long, slow decline of North Slope oil production – not because they’re running out of oil. In fact, there’s an amazing amount of untapped, unproduced oil up here. It’s because of federal regulation, bureaucracy. It’s made it so expensive and difficult to operate,» Wright said.
He added that with the «Big, Beautiful, Twin Natural Gas Pipeline» ultimately constructed, Alaska could be the key to global energy security by drawing buyers in Korea and Japan away from China.
«It’s great to be part of history again here in the great North Slope oil fields of Alaska,» Wright said.
Dunleavy last week headlined a global sustainable energy conference in Anchorage, which also drew the attention of those same potential stakeholders from Asia.
Manny Mizael cambió Brasil por Boston hace 27 años, pero su pasión por un equipo de fútbol a casi 8000 kilómetros de distancia, en Río de Janeiro, arde con más fuerza que nunca.
Tanto es así que Mizael ayuda a dirigir un club de aficionados en Massachusetts para el equipo, el Flamengo, uno de los más populares de Brasil. Su grupo organiza regularmente proyecciones de partidos que atraen a cientos de seguidores.
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Pero este año, los grupos de WhatsApp de los aficionados empezaron a encenderse con charlas sobre la represión de la inmigración por parte del gobierno del presidente Donald Trump casi tanto como sobre las victorias más recientes del Flamengo. Los temores eran tan intensos que el grupo suspendió una fiesta para ver un partido en febrero, dijo Mizael, por temor a convertirse en el objetivo de una redada de inmigración. Muchos de los seguidores no son originarios de Estados Unidos y carecen de estatus legal.
“Están agarrando a la gente en la calle y deteniéndola”, dijo Mizael. “Decidimos no hacer el partido porque pensamos que podría arruinar la vida de mucha gente”.
Las políticas de Trump y el fútbol
La cancelación fue un adelanto de cómo las políticas de inmigración del presidente Trump se perfilan para afectar al Mundial del próximo año, el acontecimiento deportivo más visto. Se espera que atraiga a unos 6,5 millones de personas, muchos a Estados Unidos, donde se disputarán la mayoría de los partidos. (Canadá y México son coanfitriones del torneo). Los aficionados suelen hacer todo lo posible para viajar una vez en la vida a la Copa, y gastan años de ahorros o posponen compras importantes, como vivienda, para pagar el viaje.
Donald Trump y Gianni Infantino en la Casa Blanca. Washington, D.C., 6 de mayo de 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
Para algunos, la posibilidad de ese viaje ya podría estar condenada. Los tiempos de espera para obtener una visa para varios países —entre ellos Colombia, cuyos seguidores suelen asistir en gran cantidad a los Mundiales— se extienden más allá del torneo del próximo verano. Irán, el primer equipo de Asia clasificado para el Mundial, está en la lista de 12 países a los que Trump prohibió la entrada. Hizo una excepción para los atletas y el personal de la Copa y otros acontecimientos deportivos, pero no para los hinchas.
En los últimos torneos celebrados en Rusia y Qatar, los países anfitriones y la FIFA acordaron un programa de exención de visados para la mayoría de las personas que tuvieran entradas. No se ha establecido nada similar para el próximo verano.
Las duras políticas de inmigración del gobierno de Trump también han afectado a la contratación de personal para la Copa, según dos personas con conocimiento directo del asunto. La FIFA suele emplear a contratistas con experiencia en grandes acontecimientos complejos, como los Juegos Olímpicos, para que ayuden a organizar el torneo. Para la Copa de 2026, ese proceso ha resultado más difícil de lo habitual, incluso el gobierno ha rechazado algunas solicitudes de visado y ha preguntado por qué la FIFA no puede contratar a estadounidenses para el trabajo, según un funcionario del fútbol informado sobre la planificación.
Un portavoz de la FIFA negó que el proceso para obtener visas de trabajo hubiera sido difícil y señaló que la organización contaba con una plantilla de 800 personas en Miami y tenía previsto enviar personal de Europa para ayudar. El portavoz declinó hacer comentarios sobre la posibilidad de que se impidiera a los aficionados de determinados países asistir a la Copa Mundial o sobre los esfuerzos que estaba realizando la FIFA para garantizar que quienes tengan entradas pudieran asistir.
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La FIFA, EE.UU. y el Mundial de Clubes
La FIFA también está organizando un torneo de mil millones de dólares y un mes de duración, que comenzará la semana que viene, llamado Mundial de Clubes, que llevará a Estados Unidos a 32 equipos de clubes, entre ellos el Flamengo. El torneo, el primero de este tipo, es un precursor de la Copa Mundial del próximo verano.
Para el grupo de Mizael, los acontecimientos relacionados con la inmigración han estropeado los planes de lo que habría sido un festival de fútbol en las próximas semanas.
Se descartaron las fiestas para ver los partidos, así como las conversaciones sobre viajar en grupo a partidos en Filadelfia y Orlando, por temor a que un autobús de migrantes se convirtiera en objetivo. “Eso es algo que no podemos tener en nuestra conciencia”, dijo Mizael.
Quedan miles de asientos sin vender para el torneo de clubes, y los funcionarios de la FIFA atribuyen al menos parte de la escasez a la preocupación de los aficionados por la situación de sus visados, según el funcionario de fútbol y otro funcionario.
Las ventas han sido tan escasas que la FIFA ha bajado los precios en repetidas ocasiones. Los precios en las plataformas de reventa están bajando para el partido inaugural, en el que juega el Inter de Miami, un equipo que agotó las entradas en los estadios de todo el país el año pasado, cuando Lionel Messi se incorporó a su plantilla. Otros factores de la aparente falta de interés son la ausencia de algunos de los equipos más importantes de Europa, los precios iniciales de las entradas y la incertidumbre sobre un nuevo torneo.
El vocero de la FIFA negó que la venta de entradas fuera “baja” para los aficionados radicados en Estados Unidos, pero no facilitó cifras totales de ventas. Dijo que habían comprado entradas aficionados de más de 130 países.
La Casa Blanca ha mostrado un gran interés por la Copa del año que viene. Trump creó un grupo de trabajo que él mismo preside, y el presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, apareció en el Despacho Oval, donde el enorme trofeo dorado del torneo de clubes estuvo expuesto durante semanas.
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En una reunión del grupo de trabajo celebrada el mes pasado, el vicepresidente JD Vance dijo que los aficionados podían esperar una “experiencia sin contratiempos” al visitar Estados Unidos y anticipó la llegada de visitantes de unos 100 países.
Sin embargo, también les advirtió de que no se quedaran más tiempo de la cuenta. “Cuando se acabe el tiempo”, dijo, “tendrán que volver a casa”.
(*) Tariq Panja es corresponsal deportivo mundial y se centra en historias en las que el dinero, la geopolítica y el crimen se cruzan con el mundo del deporte.
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Nearly 500 drones and 20 missiles of various types were launched by Russia at Ukraine overnight, marking the biggest barrage of the war, Kyiv said.
On Monday, Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses were able to destroy 277 of the 479 drones launched in the darkness and 19 missiles mid-flight. Kyiv claims only 10 drones of missiles hit their target and just one person was injured.
The bombardment targeted mainly central and western areas of Ukraine, they said.
Russia’s aerial attacks usually start late in the evening and end in the morning, as drones are harder to spot in the dark.
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Explosion is seen after Russian air strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russia has targeted civilian areas of Ukraine with Shahed drones during the war. The attacks have killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations. Russia says it targets only military targets.
Despite the attack, the Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was still ready to honor agreements with Ukraine on a new prisoner of war exchange and on the repatriation of dead soldiers, despite what it said was Kyiv’s failure to so far honor its side of the bargain.
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An apartment block in the Solomianskyi district is damaged by an overnight Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 6, 2025.
«We have seen and heard a hundred different excuses, justifications and so on, but it is difficult to view them as credible,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. «The Russian side remains ready to implement the agreements reached in Istanbul.»
The exchanges were agreed to during a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on June 2 and are meant to see a new prisoner of war swap of at least 1,200 people – focusing on the youngest and most severely wounded – as well as the repatriation of thousands of bodies of those killed in the war.
A Ukrainian doctor treats a soldier injured by shrapnel from Russian explosive drones at a medical stabilisation centre of the 3rd Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, in an undisclosed location near Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (FLORENT VERGNES/AFP)
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The return of prisoners of war and the return of the bodies of the dead is one of the few things the two sides have been able to agree on, even as their broader negotiations have failed to get close to ending the war, now in its fourth year.
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