2024-05-03 00:11:58
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered another political setback on a key day for his future as the leader of the Conservative Party. The Home Office yesterday confirmed a new daily record of irregular migrant arrivals through the English Channel since 2024 began, just a day after Sunak stressed to Parliament that his plan against immigration is working.
The prime minister has looked to take advantage of the supposed success of his migration policy to convince a part of the voters in the local elections, which are held in 107 municipalities in England and portend a bad result for his party.
There have been 711 people who have arrived in the United Kingdom in the last few hours from France, spread over 14 boats. The figure brings the total of irregular arrivals through the English Channel to more than 8,000 this year, 34% more than in the same period in 2023. If this trend continues, 2024 would be the year with the most irregular arrivals in the country, surpassing the record set in 2022. The data has set into motion Sunak’s attempts to use last week’s passage of Rwanda’s Security Law to gain a boost ahead of Thursday’s election.
The British Government looked to relaunch the campaign earlier this week with the announcement of the first arrests of asylum seekers for eventual deportation to Rwanda in early July. The Ministry of the Interior has not wanted to confirm how many people have been arrested so far, but some British media point out that dozens are already in police custody. The goal is to deport more than 5,000 people before the end of the year.
Hard hand
The Executive has also tried to show a tough hand against immigration – and win the support of the most radical voters of his party – with the confirmation of the first deportation to the African country this week. A deportation which, however, is not related to the plan of forced deportations approved last week, since in this case it was a person whose application for asylum was rejected and who agreed to travel to Rwanda from voluntarily in exchange for a grant of 3,500 euros.
Thursday’s migration data show, at least for now, that the deportation plan in the African country is not serving as a deterrent to stop irregular arrivals through the English Channel. Something that could take its toll on the prime minister in an election that, according to polls, already predicts a bad result for the Tories, who could lose up to half of the nearly one thousand councilors who are defending their positions under the party’s acronym .
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The Conservatives will be particularly keen on the results in two of the ten major mayoralties up for grabs, West Midlands and Tees Valley, which remain in their hands. Its two candidates have sought to distance themselves from their party during the campaign, aware that popular support has plummeted in recent months, but it remains unclear whether they will be able to hold on to the seat against a surging Labor Party.
The first figures will be released today, although it will not be until Saturday afternoon when all the results will be known, including for London, where Labor mayor Sadiq Khan starts with a clear lead to secure a third term.
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Reshetnikov: The credit for continuing the work of Cyril and Methodius belongs to Bulgaria
– 2024-05-04 14:35:06
/ world today news/ On the page of the “Heritage of Empires” website, the retired Russian general Leonid Reshetnikov, famous in Bulgaria, published a greeting for May 24, in which he emphasized the civilizational role of Bulgaria in the spread and development of the work of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius. From Pogled Info we publish his opinion. The editors reserve the right to disagree with everything expressed in the text:
The creation of writing is an epochal event. It is not by chance that in many Slavic countries the Day in memory of Saints Cyril and Methodius, creators of Slavic writing, is celebrated not so much as a church holiday, but also as a state holiday.
In pre-revolutionary Russia, this holiday was widely celebrated, and after 1917 it was ordered to be forgotten, but after 1991 it returned to our lives again.
For seventy years of theocratic power in our people, the understanding of the main meaning of the work of the holy brothers has been lost: thanks to the Slavic script created by them, which was recognized as canonical by both Constantinople and Rome, the Slavs were able to join Christ’s faith and to perceive God’s Word in their own language.
Alas, even the literate today, brought up in Soviet textbooks with righteous indignation, ask:
“What, were the Russian people before Cyril and Methodius silent as a fish and did not know any written language?”
Of course, they were not silent and understood the writing.
As the Brave Blackbeard wrote in the 10th century in his “About the Letters”:
“They tried to write Slavic speech with Greek letters without distribution. But how can you write God well in Greek?”
It was this “disorder” that was overcome thanks to the Slavic alphabet, which became the basis of all Slavic languages.
The historical merit in the development and spread of the cause of the “Slavic First Teachers” belongs to Bulgaria. It is here, in the Bulgarian monasteries, educational centers and schools, that a whole galaxy of writers and translators developed their activities, who not only translated the most important monuments of liturgical, canonical and patristic literature from Greek, but also created vivid examples of original literary works.
The contribution of the Bulgarian clergy to the Christianization of the Russian people and the establishment of the Russian Church was well known in pre-revolutionary Russia.
So, the hero of the War of Independence of 1877-1878, Count Ignatiev, in his letter from the front on July 10, 1877, wrote to his wife:
„We return our debt to the homeland of the enlighteners Cyril and Methodius”.
Today, because of the political conjuncture, our Cyrillic alphabet is under attack, there are repeated attempts to replace it with the Latin alphabet. Bulgarians start talking to Russians in English, and our “educated people” accuse the Bulgarians of wanting to “steal the Cyrillic alphabet from the Russians”. Let us preserve our wealth – our language, in it are the wisdom and covenants of our ancestors, the guarantee of our future.
Translation: SM
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They agree to optimize migration processes for the Paracel industrial megaproject
Asunción, IP Agency.- The National Directorate of Migration signed a cooperation agreement with the Paracel company with the aim of optimizing migration processes within the framework of the industrial megaproject.
The signing took place at the Migrations headquarters, in an event chaired by the national director of the institution, Jorge Kronawetter. Present for Paracel were the director of Communication and Social Sustainability of Paracel, Latifi Chelala, and the financial director, Marcos Kosman.
The alliance aims to establish the conditions of cooperation between the parties for the development of projects and activities that are necessary to improve and streamline the immigration processes and procedures of foreign citizens who, due to their participation in the venture, must settle in the country.
These processes will cover both Paracel workers and employees and collaborators, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers who are linked to the project.
About the mega project
Paracel SA is a Paraguayan company with capital from national and international financial institutions, dedicated to building and operating a world-class eucalyptus pulp mill, becoming the largest private undertaking in the country, with an estimated budget of USD 4,000 million and will generate hundreds of jobs.
Within the framework of this large-scale project, the company is preparing to install, develop and commercially operate a pulp factory in the Department of Concepción, to be supplied with reforested wood from plantations on its own land and that of third parties. This project is expected to contribute to the local development of the city of Concepción, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region, in the construction and operation stages of its pulp mill.
The National Directorate of Migration, following the guidelines of the Government of Paraguay, expresses through this agreement its willingness to collaborate with the industrial sector that aims to promote the development of investments in the country, for the benefit of the national economy and the population. which will be directly benefited by the generation of jobs.
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2024-05-04 14:16:38
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