Germany’s president Joachim Gauck, has warned that there are limits to how many refugees his country can absorb. It prepares for as many as 800,000 arrivals this year. He said “Our ability to take in people is limited, although we don’t know yet where those limits are,” source: reuters
The first group of residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR, LPR) have received Russian passports issued under a fast-track procedure in accordance with the Russian president’s decree. A passport ceremony took place in Russia’s Rostov region, where over 60 Donbass residents had arrived on Friday morning. Source: Tass
Commercials portraying “harmful gender stereotypes” will be banned from Friday in the UK. The nation’s advertising watchdog introduced the ban because it found evidence suggesting that adverse stereotypes could “restrict the choices, aspirations and opportunities of children, young people and adults and these stereotypes can be reinforced by some advertising, which plays a part in unequal gender outcomes.” Source: Deutsche Welle
will ask if he has more effective ideas for paying debts to families and businesses”. The Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, said this. “That is a measure unanimously approved by Parliament. As a minister, I do not say if I like it or dislike it, but if Parliament asks me to do it,” he added. Source: TG Com 24
