Days after her electoral victory in France, extreme-right leader Marine Le Pen said she was confident of forming a new anti-EU group in the European Parliament with other extreme-right parties in Europe that would boost both her political influence and financial clout.
EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy has received a mandate from the 28 EU leaders to start consultations in view of electing a new European Commission President.
Jewish Agency came to the rescue of two Jewish Ukranian families after rebels seized control of Donetsk airport as they were waiting to immigrate to Israel, an agency spokesman said.
France’s extreme-right National Front looks set to gain a majority of France’s 74 seats in the European Parliament, with an exit poll handing it 25 percent of the vote in Sunday’s EU elections.
The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, in which four people died, was ‘’deeply shocking.’
During a royal tour of Canada, Charles told a Jewish woman who fled from Poland during World War II that ''Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler.''
A Jewish group monitoring ant-Semitism in France expressed dismay to learn that Souad Merah, sister of Mohamed Merah, the Islamist terrorist who killed four Jews in Toulouse in 2012, escaped police surveillance and is suspected to have left France for Syria.
French extreme-right National Front party leader, Marine Le Pen, which could become the first party in France in Sunday’s European elections according to polls, hopes to send between 16 and 20 members to the next 751-member European Parliament compared to 3 in the outgoing assembly.
