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Romanians vote on Sunday to choose their next president, with Social Democrat and current prime minister Victor Ponta the overwhelming favourite to win. Ponta, 42, goes into the second round of votes with 54 per cent support, according to the

If Europeans go down to the woods today they might be in for a big surprise: bears. And in countries no longer used to big predators, it’s no picnic. Reintroduced in parts of western Europe in “rewilding” programmes — in

The Conservative pledge to slow immigration appears to be on the rocks, and those who warned of a flood of economic migrants after work restrictions for new members was lifted at the start of the year have been vindicated after

Judges in a landmark ruling have said EU migrants cannot expect to live off state handouts in another country if they cannot support themselves. In a decision which will be music to the Prime Minister’s ears after a rocky start

A Turkish hair removal company has hit the headlines after featuring an unusual model in its latest promotion. An advert for Epila hair removal products featured a photograph of a hairy man in a slash necked white t shirt with

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union leaders meeting in Brussels to stamp their new, ambitious greenhouse gas emissions plan should prepare for unyielding opposition from coal-reliant Poland and some other East European countries who say their developing economies and electricity

The French government is drawing up plans to ban any immigrant whose “personal behaviour” is deemed to pose a threat to “security or public order”. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has made it clear that he wants to keep certain

Tory MP Philip Hollobone has urged the government to place a limit on international aid to countries that cannot take back prisoners from the UK due to the standards of incarceration in their own country. In a Westminster debate he

Israel has hit out at Sweden’s newly elected prime minister Stefan Loefven over his decision to recognise a Palestinian state. “Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he regrets that the new prime minister was in a hurry to make statements

EU Commission President Jean Claude Junker has managed to secure nine women in his Commission line up, making it likely that it will now receive the consent of liberal, green and socialist groupings. The left wing parliamentarians had threatened to

Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Teresa May face embarrassment today as independent figures revealed that Britain’s net migration has jumped from 175,000 to 243,000 over the past year. The jump, despite a pledge by the Conservative Party to

Figures released yesterday showed this. You may have missed them though – they went widely unreported. They once again shattered the hollow words from Cameron’s Conservative Party who once vowed to bring net migration down to “tens of thousands per

Britain is still set to hand out £5bn in tax credits to immigrants, despite David Cameron’s crackdown on benefit tourism. Tax credits top up the salary of low paid workers, they are effectively ‘in work’ benefits and can far outstrip

The British government spent £80,000 of taxpayers’ money flying 200 Eastern European immigrants back home, only for many to return just weeks later. The migrants were flown back to Romania and Bulgaria in the first three weeks of this year,

Although the Liberal Democrats managed to stall its publication for months, a report analysing free movement within the EU has finally been released. The report exposes how criminals are using this EU law to “import human trafficking victims, illegal immigrants as well as illicit commodities, including rugs

One year ago, Croatia joined the European Union with great fanfare, sparking hopes that membership of the rich 28-nation bloc would transform the fortunes of the tourism-dependent economy.  But as the anniversary looms, the hoped-for boom has largely failed to

Despite 26 million workers being trapped in unemployment across the European Union, member states have not yet shifted the burden of taxation away from workers and employment. Tax on labour remains the largest source of revenue in the 28-member bloc,