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Anti-Semitic attack on Paris bagel shop The managers of the Bagelstein restaurant in Parisʼs 6th arrondissement said on Sunday that they had been the victims of an anti-Semitic attack. The store window had been graffitied with the German word meaning "Jews" in yellow paint overnight. "We discovered the tag on Saturday morning, and it was probably done on Friday night into Saturday," co-founder of the chain, Gilles Abecassis, told French news agency AFP on Sunday. He added that some of their other windows have also been vandalized in the past. Abecassis said that he thought the yellow color of the graffiti was significant, not because of the recent yellow vest protests in France, but "maybe for the Star of David," armbands the Nazis forced Jews to wear. "One anti-Semitic tag in the middle of Paris is one too many," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner wrote on Twitter. "Our response: to do everything we can so that the perpetrator of this ignominous act is condemned."
German rescue ship named after drowned toddler Alan Kurdi A German migrant rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean was renamed on Sunday after Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish shore during the height of Europeʼs migrant crisis, galvanizing global opinion. German charity Sea-Eye renamed the ship in the presence of Alanʼs father, Abdullah Kurdi, and aunt, Tima Kurdi, in Palma on Spainʼs Balearic Island of Mallorca. Read more: Aunt of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi calls for compassion "We are happy that a German rescue ship will carry the name of our boy. My boy on the beach must never be forgotten. Our grief for the loss of my wife and sons is shared by many, by thousands of families who have so tragically lost sons and daughters this way," Abdullah Kurdi said in a statement released by Sea-Eye.
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Hungary gives tax breaks to boost population, stop immigration He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced tax benefits and subsidies to encourage families to have more children. He said the policy was meant to create more Hungarians instead of promoting EUbacked immigration.
Poles abandoned in Brexit no manʼs land Warsaw wants Poles in the UK to come home and help the booming economy, well, keep booming. London now says it wants them to stay, but where does that leave the almost 1 million people caught in the middle? "Give us our people back!" Polandʼs prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki (pictured above, right), is not known for his quasi-biblical soliloquies. His UK counterpart, Theresa May (also above), even less so. And, finally, after months of wavering, her recent call for Poles to stay in Britain has done little to allay confusion and anger among many of the estimated 900,000-strong community. And the uncertainty means
those caught in the crosshairs are unsure of their future. Marta Mills is a Polish woman who has been living in the UK since 2004, when Poland joined the EU. Married to an Englishman for 13 years, she lives in London. Marta says the 2016 referendum brought the worst out in some British people. "I mean theracism and the feeling of superiority over others, feeling of having the empire again, which I find pretty pathetic," she says. "People started saying nasty things out loud, as if the Brexit vote somehow legitimized what they were feeling but had always been unable to say out loud. Brexit has made them feel empowered to ʼfinally come out and tell those bloody immigrants what to do.ʼ"
Celebrating firebrand poet Else LaskerSchüler 150 years on If you take a trip to Wuppertalʼs Elberfeld suburb in search of Jewish German poet and playwright Else LaskerSchülerʼs place of birth (on February 11, 1869) youʼll only encounter two huge, dark slabs of granite there — the house was destroyed during World War II. The monument portrays LaskerSchüler with a stern facial expression contrasted with one of her most recog-
nized poems, "Weltflucht" (Withdrawal from the World): "I would flee into the immensity Of myself, Already the meadow saffron blooms In my soul, Perhaps — itʼs too late to turn back! O, I die with you! Since I was choked with you. I wanted threads to encircle me — Ending confusion! Undeterred, Tangled in you, In order to escape Into myself!"
Spain: Thousands demand Pedro Sanchez resign Huge crowds of anti-government protesters converged on central Madrid on Sunday topressure Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to step downand call fresh elections. An estimated 45,000 people packed into the capitalʼs Plaza de Colon, many of them waving Spanish flags and signs reading "Stop Sanchez" and "For a united Spain, elections now!" The rally was organized by the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) and the center-right Citizens Party, with backing from thefar-right party Vox. "The time of Sanchezʼs government is over," PP leader Pablo Casado told reporters at the start of the march. His opposition party is firmly against the prime ministerʼs decision to tackle political tensions in northeastern Catalonia by negotiating with pro-independence parties.
Hard Brexit risks 100,000 German jobs A hard Brexit could cost more than 100,000 jobs in Germany, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday, citing a study by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The study, which looks at the effect of a hard Brexit down to individual districts and cities, showed that some of Germanyʼs well-known auto and technology hubs could face the maximum brunt.
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