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Dutch legislation concerning a new law that would ban foreigners from entering coffee houses and smoking marijuana in the Netherlands is being enforced. The proposal was adopted last year, but many were not sure if it would go into effect. But starting January 1st, 2012, many are beginning to see that Amsterdam is putting a lid on the bong.
It took an undercover operation, but Greek police have blown a hole in a ring of alleged crooks who had cornered the doughnut market in a beach resort. It started with complaints that two Bulgarian men and a former Greek wrestling champion were using violence to choke off the trade by other doughnut vendors on Paliouri beach in the Halkidiki Peninsula near Thessaloniki.
Norway suffered her most bloody attacks since WWII Friday afternoon. First, a bomb blasted outside Prime Minster Jens Stoltenberg office killing at least seven people and injuring 100 others. The Prime Minister on the other hand was unharmed. Next, two hours after the explosion, a lone gun man disguised in a police uniform opened fire with an automatic weapon at a Labor Party (the current ruling party of Norway) summer youth camp on Utoeya Island, a mere 25 km from the capital Oslo. Nearly 90, mostly teenagers, are declared dead with many others injured.
Thousands of protestors packed Puerta del Sol Square in the heart of Madrid this week to express anger over the country’s high unemployment rate and the inability of their nation’s politicians to address the issue. Spain’s economic condition has been declining for nearly three years. The Iberian nation was hit hard by the world economic crisis and, along with Portugal and Greece, has been seen as the “Sick man of Europe.” Spain’s outstanding youth unemployment of 40% proved to be the straw that broke the camel’s back, causing the country’s disenfranchised youth to pack the streets to demand jobs.