Poll: 1/2 of French police and military voted for the FN: According to a Science Po/Cevipof poll, 51.5% of French police and military personnel planned to vote for the Front National just prior to the recent regional elections. Marine Le Pen's party had received 27.3% of the vote nationally. According to the poll, a quarter of civil servants voted for the FN, while less than 10% of teachers did so. Source: Les Échos
Orbán: Central Europe Has More Free Speech than the West: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, speaking on Hungarian public radio, said that Central European media were freer and more diversified than Western European media. "[T]hose who seek to lecture us on freedom of speech [. . .] suppress" news on migrants, he said. Orbán added that a "new line of defense for Europe" against immigration needed to be established on Greece's northern border. Source: Hungarian Government
EU not "satisfied" with Turkey migrant deal: European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans said that the European Union is "a long way from being satisfied" with Turkey's implementation of an agreement to reduce migration. The United Nations reports that 3,000 migrants have been arriving in Greece every day over the past two weeks. German Chancellor Angela Merkel played a key role in securing the deal, which included granting Turks visa-free travel to the EU, €3 billion in aid commitments, and resumption of negotiations for Turkish membership of the Union. Source: Open Europe
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