The first killer punch of the European election campaign was struck yesterday by the maverick Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, who scooped 17 per cent of the vote and almost a fifth of his country's seats in the European Parliament running on a populist, anti-immigrant, law and order agenda.
The U.S. government is warning Americans traveling to Germany about possible terror attacks around the upcoming election. In an official travel alert issued Wednesday, the State Department warns that "Al Qaeda has threatened it will conduct terrorist attacks in Germany immediately prior to and following the federal elections on September 27."