Leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union failed in the early hours of this morning to agree how to share out the remaining three top jobs in Brussels, after tensions over the appointment of a new EU
German authorities have uncovered a price-fixing cartel among some of the country’s best-known sausage makers, claiming food manufacturers colluded for decades to rig the price of “Wurst” and related products. According to the Financial Times, Germany’s Federal Cartel Authority will
After wrenching the power to select the next president of the European Commission away from the leaders of the member states, the European Parliament is now moving to take control of the selection of individual commissioners away from national governments.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, today was elected as the new president of the European Commission by majority vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It marked the final triumph of Brussels-insider Juncker, who endured smears as
Approval ratings for both President Obama and the United States have dropped significantly in Germany, America’s most important ally in Europe, because of revelations about the U.S. spying on the Berlin government and America’s use of Drone strikes in such
Attempts led by the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski to stop the Italian foreign minister Federica Mogherini, whom he considers to be soft on Russia, becoming the new EU foreign policy chief look likely to fail when her appointment is
The head of Germany’s federal police says that the country is Europe’s “number one destination” for illegal immigrants, with the number of cases increasing by 31.6 per cent between 2012 and 2013 to 56,000. Dieter Romann, head of the Bundespolizei,
Eurozone market wobbles, bank and sovereign jitters – as Diane Keaton sang in Annie Hall, “Seems like old times.” Or at least, seems like 2012. Yesterday a “mild” global sell-off was triggered by fears that financial troubles at Portugal’s Banco
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is forcing Britain’s small and medium-sized enterprises to face the prospect of a multi-billion pound bill for back-dated holiday pay which could send many companies out of business. EEF, a manufacturers’ organisation, is warning
The 65,000-ton Royal Navy aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, launched by Her Majesty on July 4 and praised as “a national instrument of power,” is in fact “a ship with no real purpose other than to act as the monument to
The European Union must renew a focus on foreign policy that was neglected as it dealt with a debt crisis, Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano said in an interview on Saturday. Napolitano, an 89-year old former Communist hard-liner, told the newspaper
The European Court of Justice has dealt a blow to David Cameron’s 2010 election manifesto pledge to make immigrants from outside the European Union pass an English language test before they are allowed to come to the UK to marry.
The European Commission is taking the United Kingdom to the EU’s Court of Justice in the latest move in a long-running dispute over Britain’s policy of allowing private leisure craft to use low-tax red diesel. In a statement issued yesterday,
Amnesty International has revealed its pro-immigration prejudice by criticising member states of the European Union for spending hundreds of millions of euros trying to build effective border control. In a report published this week, Amnesty International complains that, “EU migration
A “calm, intelligent, friendly, hardworking” British international banker fatally shot his wife before killing himself at their American home. The bodies of Julian Knott, age 45 from London, an executive director of America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and
At first glance the report looks like a joke made up by the naughtier members of the UK Independence Party to make fun of their federalist colleagues in the European Parliament, but, no, it’s true: the parliament has now created
Ireland’s passion for country and western music – or “country and culchie,” as Dublin sophisticates dismiss it with the pejorative word for a rural native – has exploded this week across the government and parliament with the news that five
Efforts by Belgium to launch a new nine-nation European counter-terrorism scheme have already begun to fall apart, with the Swedes reported to be dropping out because the Belgian plan is only a political gesture and “repeats what law enforcement agencies
The European Union “strongly condemns” the “indiscriminate” fire into Israel from Gaza, and “deplores” the causalities caused by Israeli retaliatory fire, a spokesman for the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton said in a statement released on Tuesday.
Figures are just out disclosing the millions of taxpayers’ money the European Union paid in 2013 to unelected, unaccountable non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other special interest groups, especially to the “global warming” lobby. One of the most disturbing figures is
The think tank Open Europe has questioned the “gigantic” size of the committees at the European Parliament and suggests that many MEPs join the committees because of the “opportunities for significant travel abroad.” As the committees met to decide on
As forecast by Breitbart London three days ago, the three main euro-zealot groups in the European Parliament have conspired to block the committee chairmanship to which the UK Independence Party has a right because of the strength of its Europe
A Germany neo-Nazi today took a seat on the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, outraging the parliament’s German Socialist president Martin Schulz, who said: “There is no place for racists and anti-Semites in this
A self-proclaimed British Islamic “freedom fighter” is being investigated by Malaysian Special Branch officers who suspect him of a leaving trail of bigamous marriages across Europe and Asia. According to the Daily Mail, police have named the man who may
The European Commission is going to withdraw its draft directive on maternity leave, a proposal which has been stalled in the EU Council of Ministers for close to four years. The commission’s directive, which would force employers across the EU
