Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Maersk –  a publicly traded, family-controlled company – “ has made almost 1,000 shipments of goods to the Israeli military through Algeciras [Spain] since the embargo announcement.” That is why the Israeli football fans did not observe a minute of silence in Amsterdam game.

The awful ‘ghetto’ law

More of the honest European politicians

Is it changing?

The Crisis of European Social Democracy

Poor Denmark! It doesn’t have either the money, the houses or the moral obligation to accept 100 more Syrian refugees. Denmark is providing a model on how to deal with unwanted refugees. Other European states might/will follow suit, especially in right-and-far-right-led countries. Copenhagen will not renew residency rights

War profit: Danish pension funds financing war in Yemen

A Part of Denmark

This is what "left" means according to the BBC. A mother of two, she came to power with a traditional centre-left focus on stronger welfare policies but also a promise to be tough on immigration. Last year she announced plans to place a cap on "non-Western" immigration including refugees and family reunions, to be voted on every year in the Folketing. She also proposed sending asylum seekers to reception centres outside the EU, for example in North Africa, for their requests to be processed. — the BBC Denmark has taken part of the American intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq. One needs to add the economic policies Mette is advocating.

Civilisation "Denmark plans to house the country’s most unwelcome foreigners in a most unwelcoming place: a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables and crematory of a center for researching contagious animal diseases. As if to make the message clearer, one of the two ferries that serve the island is called the Virus." Denmark: Virusing migrants

Learn the Danish values or ...

England Investing in education is investing in future generations. It is passivity, compliance, acquiescence, and more that make the English students and their parents accept the tuition fees. It is the mentality, and the ideology, of business.  It is about packaging and selling debt, hedge funds, etc. It is about creating a teacher-customer relationship. It is the most aggressive neoliberal capitalist economy in Europe. It is the myth of "we cannot afford scrapping tuitions fees" and "it is too costly for the state". It is the objective of reproducing compliant workforce that will think less and be at the service of the same ideological dogma. A Danish at an elite London university has told me how discussions in class are controlled and how they are much more open in Denmark, and how there is much less hierarchy. A better comparison would be a Germany, a country with a bigger population and woth no tuition fees. English and Danish tuition fees compa...