An analysis from Christian Lambert, a former French ambassador, writing at Les 4 Vérités, predicts a terrible fate for Europe. He titles his essay, "The Inexorable Suicide of Europe."

The Brussels administration admits officially that each year some 550,000 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and China, plus South America, enter the European Union. In reality the figure is twice that, in other words, more than a million.

We will briefly take it country by country.

Gloria in excelsis Deo,
et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis!

Wandered down to my local Turkish corner shop in the Brussels borough of Schaarbeek last night to pick up that local staple, the spit-roast chicken, and witnessed what I can only describe as a looting. Mehmet, the storekeeper came out to unhook the fowl from the roaster, and as he was concentrating on his efforts to serve me a small fleet of six gypsy women slipped into the shop.

I have been doing the infamous Strasbourg run for a few years now, but I have never worked out how the boxes full of all our paperwork make it from Brussels and back again.

However at last I have discovered the mode of transport. Photographed on the monthly pilgramage here is one of the hundreds of trucks.

A quote from a song by the Québecois folk group Mes Aïeux

Your great great grandmother, she had 14 kids
Your great grandmother had about as many
Then your grandmother had three, that was enough for her
Your mom didn’t want any, you were an accident

How can America improve its image abroad? Answers to this question are being bandied by all of the presidential hopefuls. Hillary Clinton says she would “send a message heard across the world: The era of cowboy diplomacy is over.” John McCain promises to “immediately close Guantanamo Bay.” Ron Paul and Barack Obama both say they would withdraw American troops from Iraq.

A quote from Open Europe’s Press Summary, 21 December 2007

French Europe Minister: If any country rejects EU Constitution they will have to "clarify" their relationship with EU

In an interview with Toute l'Europe, French Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet has said that if one country were to fail to ratify the revised EU Constitution, "The European Council would meet", and that "As in past cases, we would ask the country to please think twice; and if there seemed to be a deeper problem, we would ask that there be a clarification of the relations between this country and the European Union."

A quote from Tiberge at GalliaWatch, 20 December 2007

The excellent Swiss-based website Bafweb has announced it is stopping publication. This will be the sixth major loss for me, as a blogger in need of specialized source material, namely conservative French politics and news. […] I think many bloggers have come to the realization that, in France anyway, spreading the truth on the Internet has barely made a dent in the political and cultural situation [...] This is discouraging for us because the Internet, three or four years ago was seen as a potential springboard to a revolution that would […] restore sanity and traditional values to the individual nations in their sovereignty. But we've seen how a superstar of the mass media - Nicolas Sarkozy - can nullify and discredit the very values he campaigned on.

A quote from The Sun, 20 December 2007

Gordon Brown was embarrassed by his own troops last night as the Scottish Parliament demanded a referendum on the EU Treaty. Labour’s members north of the border abstained on a vote calling for a nationwide poll, allowing it to go through. […]

The Scottish defiance was largely a symbolic gesture as they have no power to dictate Mr Brown’s policy. But pressure for a Scots-only poll will almost certainly grow. […] The SNP, which controls Scotland, deliberately called the vote to rattle the PM, whose seat is in Fife.

A quote from Lawrence Auster at his blog, 19 December 2007

As for [Patrick J.] Buchanan, on the positive side, Buchanan's central theme [in his new book Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology and Greed Are Tearing America Apart] is in my view the central theme, namely that if a country fails to make its own countryhood primary in its politics, its economics, and its moral system, everything that the country does only serves its own undoing.

On the negative side, Buchanan remains deeply naive on the subject of Islam, refusing to see it as a threat to America; or, like the neocons, he says that Islam is an existential danger to Europe, but not to America. As though the Islamization of Europe would not represent the most profound threat to America.