It's all about the Money!
from Europe Calling
Whilst Artur Mas is preparing to take Catalonia away from Spain, Benidorm and Alfaz are enjoying their fiestas and Deliberries is tryng to help one particular sector of the employment market. ANGELA Merkel’s government has admitted it is paying the pensions of 41 Spaniards injured while fighting for the Nazis. The men were part of General Franco’s Blue Division who fought for Adolf Hitler on the eastern front during World War Two. A letter from Angela Merkel’s government in response to a parliamentary question revealed €107,352 is paid annually by German taxpayers to the veterans, eight widows and one orphan. Left-wing German politician Andrej Hunko said it was ‘a scandal that 70 years after the war, Germany is still paying more than €100,000 a year to Nazi collaborators’. The agreement to pay the pensions was struck between Franco and Germany in 1962. A twitter user has been jailed for 18 years. Beñat Lasa Fernández found guilty of glorifying terrorism after making fun of Admiral Carrero Blanco’s 1973 assassination and other ETA victims...... As Britain honours the war heroes in Remembrance Day services one bus driver interrupted the solemn occasion in Bedfordshire by hooting his horn durin two minutes silence. As John Major says wealthy an big firms should do more to tackle poverty David Cameron prepares to tackle the European Parliament with demands for change. One writer talls him he needs to control the borders, get proof of work, control own economy and laws and keep to proper values.
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