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Europe
Hungary
(Friday), October 25, 2024, 11:32 AM Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has suggested that Poland’s government and its prime minister, Tusk, were installed by the European Union as part of a plot to remove the country’s previous right-wing leadership. The comments came two days after Orbán told supporters in a speech that the bloc seeks to topple his government and install a puppet regime in Hungary. Speaking to state radio today, Orbán lashed out at EU Commission President Der Leyen, and the leader of the bloc's largest political group, European People's Party president Weber, claiming they were seeking to replace his government as he said they had in Poland in 2023, when a coalition led by Tusk defeated the governing Law and Justice party in national elections. 'It’s not even a secret conspiracy against Hungary, it is an openly represented, announced plan,' Orbán said of the alleged plot against him. 'The same thing happened in Poland. The Poles also went their own way, they also took an independent Polish policy on migration, gender and the economy.” Der Leyen and Weber, he continued, 'did their best and openly announced that the conservative Polish government should go and be replaced with a new one. This is how our friend Tusk became prime minister in Poland. The same scenario is now happening in the case of Hungary.' 'They’re going to be working on this. They need a puppet government. Let’s speak plainly, every empire is like that. The Soviets were like that, weren’t they?” he said of the EU. (Source: ABC News - U.S. / Associated Press - U.S.)
by Spike
North America
Canada
25/10/2024 - 06:29 Canada is due to hold elections next year – it curtails immigration. Public support for immigration declines and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday announced cuts to Canada's immigration targets. amid Trudeau's dreary re-election prospects. "Even Justin Trudeau wants to close Canada's Borders," Trump, posted on Truth Social. Canada's population jumped 3.2 percent from 2023 to 2024, the biggest annual rise since 1957, and now stands at 41 million - a rise partly fueled by a wave of new arrivals. The country had previously planned to let 500,000 new permanent residents settle in the country in 2025 and 2026, revised down to 395,000 next year and 380,000 for 2026. It set the 2027 target at 365,000. In 2021, ’23 percent of Canada's population was foreign-born’. As of 2021 most immigrants were from Asia and the Middle East, but an increasing share were coming from Africa. Nearly one of five recent immigrants were born in India. Fifty-eight percent of Canadians believe the country takes in too many immigrants, up 14 percentage points from 2023, a September survey from the Environics Institute found. In figures released last week, Abacus Data found that one of every two Canadians say immigration is harming the country. Concern among Canadians about the impact of immigration is linked to unease over affordable housing. But the Canadian Chamber of Commerce warned immigration is Canada's "only source of workforce growth" given its ageing population, low fertility rates, and retirements from the baby-boomer generation. Opposition leader Poilievre, whose Conservative Party is trouncing Trudeau's Liberals in recent polling, said the prime minister was desperately trying to boost his popularity as he confronts a revolt inside his own party and declining support nationally. "We can't expect that Justin Trudeau will keep any of these frantic, panicked, last-minute promises," Poilievre told. (Source: france24 / AFP - France)
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