Dusseldorf axe terrorist is "mentally ill" muslim from Kosovo

The axe wielding nutter who injured 7 people in Dusseldorf in the early hours of Friday has been named as Kosovan muslim, Fatmir H.

Fatmir was immediately declared mentally ill by German police which is policy across Europe whenever a muslim commits a terrorist offence.

EU grants official candidate status to Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia

The economic geniuses on the continent have finally found the answer to all our financial problems - they're giving official candidate status to Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia.

Official candidate status means the EU accepts the idea of their membership in principal and paves the way for an official application to join.  Kosovo is the second poorest country in Europe, Albania the fourth and Macedonia the sixth poorest.  They're poorer than Greece which has already had a couple of bailouts and is impossibly bankrupt.  Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Cyprus - all of them having had a bailout or on the brink of having one - will all have to pay more into the coffers (as will we of course) to bail out Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia from day one.  It's perverse!

The decision is a contentious one for more reasons than the utter insanity of taking in the poorest countries in Europe and pledging to spend billions on them every year to stop them failing.  The EU is referring to Macedonia as Macedonia when the Greeks insist on them being called the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in case calling them Macedonia legitimises a claim the Macedonians haven't even made to the Greek province of Macedonia.  It's like the Americans insisting on calling England the Former British Republic of England in case we decided to lay a claim to the state of New England.  Whether the Greek government objects to this will be an indication of the extent of EU control over the Greek vichy government.  And as for Kosovo - Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain don't even recognise Kosovo as an independent state but the EU's own lawyers have concluded that it doesn't matter if a fifth of EU member states don't recognise Kosovo, they can go ahead and conclude treaties with them anyway.

The EU Foreign Affairs Committee didn't just stop at granting Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia candidate status to show their detachment from reality - they also criticised the lack of progress of the Icelandic application for EU membership.  Romanian MEP Cristian Preda said "the progress does not reflect the feelings of the Icelanders about the enlargement".  Domnu Preda is correct - opinion polls in Iceland show that something like 70% of Icelanders are opposed to EU membership and Icelandic business leaders are similarly cool to the idea so far from progressing the application, it should have been abandoned long ago or even better, not even started.

Kosovans say "in the EU, not under the EU"

The EU security mission to Kosovo, EULex, will begin deploying on 7th December.

The EU is sending 1,300 police officers, judges and customers officers to Kosovo to take over from a UN mission, UNMIK. The number will rise to 1,900 in the coming months.

What is interesting is the protest by several thousand Kosovans in their capital, Pristina, about the deployment. Kosovo has ambitions to join the EU - like a lot of poor countries in Europe they see the EU as a gravy train - but they are already wary of the influence the EU will have over them. One of the banners said "Kosovo in the EU, not under the EU" and the organiser of the protest, Albin Kurti, expressed concern at the EULex officials having immunity from prosecution.

Poland and the Czech Republic are both thorns in the side of the eurofederalists, constantly fighting to ensure that their voice is heard and that they maintain as much of their sovereignty as is possible as a member of the EU. Kosovo wants to join the EU and is already clearly concerned at being under the EU rather than in the EU. They're also concerned about EU officials having immunity from prosecution - something that EU officials are entitled to and one of the main reasons that corruption and fraud is at epidemic levels in the EU.

Kosovo will still pursue a pro-EU agenda because the alternative is either going it alone or aligning themselves with the Russians. They've burnt their Russian bridges and they've based their future plans on joining the EU and getting their hands on bucket loads of cash to pay for infrastructure projects. There's no Plan B.

A common theme throughout Eastern Europe it seems ...