" but it was not front-page news. Are the media and politicians, especially in Europe, underestimating the threat? "

our lefties papers don't care, they already are dhimmies ! what they were worried about : Sarkozy expelling the illegals, and paticularly the Roms !

Now, AQ doesn't threat only our inner countries, but also our interests wherever they stand : ie Sahel, where french hostages were taken while working for a french company !

Apparently, this was what we had to expect as a announced "hot" threat.

Anyway, more of such harming acts on our people will happen with the race for the rare minerals, the auctions for hostages will increase too, as the authors might be paid by concurrent countries and or companies

hmm, Zyme you're uninformed

the Roms in France aren't rejected as it is stipulated by the EU laws, they can stay 3 months, overpassed these 3 months if they can't justify that they have a job, that their children are registered in a school, they must leave

also if these Roms are squatting illegally private properties and or public places, they must leave, as in most of the french villages over 6000 inhabitants there is a yard with free electricity and free water, that is reserved to "gens du voyage",(unlike in our "lecturers' countries) but looks like theses places don't interest the Roms that much (but rather cities or cities hedges), cuz they would have to melt with the french "gens du voyage", and I didn't see that the latter are happy to see them, spoiling their reputation, cuz of their way of "earning" money.

And by the Schengen agreement, Romania's and Bulgaria's freedom of moving in the whole EU is still restricted to people who fill conditions for certain jobs, therefore conditions that the Roms could certainly not reach.

The Roms from Romania aren't nomads, they live in villages since communist regimes forced them to settle, so when they come to France they can't pretend belonging to the statute "gens du voyage", and thus benefitting of the same advantages, and of the freedom of moving,

http://www.fdesouche.com/127624-gitans-des-aides-pour-lachat-de-caravanes/comment-page-2

besides, they don't move when they illegally squat a place in France. As a camping-carist, I know that I can't stay in non authorised places in EU, otherwise the police comes and tells us to move, in Spain, in Portugal, and of course Luxemburg and Germany... curiosly not in France, except for very hot tourists places like Oleron island, St Malo, Azur coast...

Also the EU commission while alloting 20 millions euros to Romania and Bulgaria thought having done the god job, without controling if the Roms situation improved in Romania, that is just happy to get rid of them, and discharged its duty on us and Italy

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/201008/23/01-4309051-roms-expulses-de-france-la-roumanie-hypocrite.php

Luxemburg can lecture us when Roms aren't allowed in

http://tinyurl.com/358wj5m

and expels its refugies Roms:

http://bonjour.news352.lu/edito-5648-pres-de-100-personnes-manifestaient-hier-a-luxembourg-pour-soutenir-les-refugies.html

even Germany expels its Kosovo Roms too (1000 already, 10000 on the way to)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbrf85_roms-d-allemagne-discrimination-au_news

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/kosovo_allemagne_aller_simple_pour_le_kosovo_et_la_misere-3396566.html

All the noise around the Roms was made by our lefties first, then the whole EU political corected press took the relay. for our lefties, the goal was to annoy Sarkozy that was undertaking reforms on retirement that they absolutely don't want (last year the same number of roms were expelled, and bizarrely the lefties were silent)

though some papers support sarkozy's action

http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/331591-sarkozy-doing-right-thing

http://www.euractiv.com/en/socialeurope/commission-buys-time-roma-controversy-news-497555

and sure Sarkozy expressed the national voice, but EU has become such a soviet and ineffective organisation, that if we wand to protect our population we must do it by ourselves

Though a few lEU leaders supported Sarkozy, Berlusconi (who has the same "hot" problem), Vaklav Klaus, Zapatero, Cameron, but the hypocrit Merkel denied that she was having such a problem, hmmm Kosovar Roms know al about it though !

Now I'm waiting that the EU crumble by itself, looks like germany will not want to bail out more PIIGS, and we don't want to become the asile for the forgotten of the EU enlargement !

"Interesting implications will result from it. If France cannot stand against Brussels, smaller nations will be much more likely to bow in the future."

I don't think France will comply, from the left to the right, if you remember the 2005 "no" represented voices from both parts, and we might have initiated the "revolt" against the Brussels dictature

what Hubert Vedrine (foreign Minister during Jospin government-> left) has to say about federalism :

http://www.liberation.fr/tribune/01012289236-le-federalisme-alimente-inutilement-la-mefiance-des-peuples

political correctness is making the bed for radicals, though french population, tourists, have enough of being looted, by Roms kids, of being hooked by women with their babies for begging... and of the diverse traffics.

My enterprise has been visited at night by such looters, they took all the cash money, (nothing else that could show the origin, and be significant as loot, they even opened the wardrobes... took off the cash money from my bag, from my man's, and even his car keys, I suppose they wanted to rob our car too, but we had a big dog in the yard, so in hurry, they put back his keys in my bag. In my street our cars are regularly striated by Roms kids that are dropped by their parents to get cigarettes at the corner Tobacco's...

If the French population would talk their mind, more than 70% would support the Roms expels, but they are like "veals" (de Gaulle's sentence to say that French follow the main stream political opinion, they don't want to be stigmatized as "xenophobe" by the lefties lectures, so lot's will secretly lean towards radical paries, and if the situation in EU doesn't get clearer, as far as immigration and economical crisis, the next elections will make some surprising choices.

if this "illegal" immigration was really in France for looking for a job, I don't think that it would have been rejected.

The problem is our Bobos, that jump on any opportunity to exploit dramas, not because they feel empathy, they don't care of the Roms, but for their political agenda

If the EU oligarcs, when thinking of the enlargement of the EU to eastern Republics, had given more conditions on how populations were treated there, on economical means, probably that we would not be at the eve to see the whole card castel, that EU has become, crumbling. But the lobbies in Brussels don't care, what they want is to take benefits, on the cheap labor force (average wage there is still €350), on selling more services and goods

We simply cannot let such non senses destroying our country for the benefit of a few.

if you read french:

http://dessousdebruxelles.ellynn.fr/spip.php?article130

and what are our commissionners up to:

A Dream Job with a Cash Guarantee: For Former European Commissioners, the Money Keeps on Coming... - http://tinyurl.com/33tkork

and the last:

"An EU Tax Indeed!" http://bit.ly/b7AkVE

hope the Germans and the French will veto it

the topic is treated here

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/09/29/all-tied-together/#comment-124314