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The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisan food makers. The small glass jugs filled with green- or gold-colored extra virgin olive oil are familiar and traditional for restaurant goers across Europe, but they will be banned from 1 January 2014 after a decision taken in an obscure Brussels committee earlier this week. From next year, olive oil “presented at a restaurant table” must be in prepackaged factory bottles with a tamper-proof dispensing nozzle and labeling in...

Danish school administrators are refusing to allow Jews to enroll out of fear of violence... Not from the Jewish children, but from the Muslim immigrant children that attend the schools. The Copenhagen Post reported, via Infidel Bloggers Alliance: A number of school administrators have come forth in recent days to confirm that they recommend Jewish children should not enrol at their schools. According to school administrators, law enforcement officials and social workers, the on-going conflict in Gaza has led to heightened tensions between Jews and Arabs - particularly Palestinians - here in Denmark.

Iran Focus Brussels, Jan. 17 – Belgium and Denmark called on Tuesday for Iran’s nuclear file to be sent to the United Nations Security Council because of Tehran’s decision to resume nuclear enrichment-related activities. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had repeatedly asked Iran to refrain from recommencing work at its uranium enrichment site in Natanz, but the calls fell on deaf ears in Tehran, and after resuming its activities the Islamic Republic vowed that its actions were “irreversible”. Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht aligned himself with a statement that had been released by the European Union last week...