Demographic Decline: Dutch Birth Rate Plummets
The fertility rate in the Netherlands continues its long-term downward trend as more couples decide to have no children at all.

The fertility rate in the Netherlands continues its long-term downward trend as more couples decide to have no children at all.

Ilya Kiva, a Member of Parliament until the crackdown on opposition parties, was shot in the head in an assassination claimed by Kyiv.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman warned the Tories are facing “electoral oblivion” and warned Prime Minister’s Sunak Rwanda plans are doomed to fail.

Israel shot down a ballistic missile in outer space with its Arrow defence system, which is being called the first space battle.

NATO has chance to discourage Russia from attacking a member state if it can show it is ready to fight back within a three years, says Poland.

“Polarization” caused by the Israel-Hamas war is leading to a “huge risk of terrorist attacks”, an EU commissioner has warned.

Security threats “more complex… evolving” and people accustomed to a digital world should be prepared to survive in analogue one, UK warns.

Tories have decided it is now time to act, prompting Labour to quip: “who do [they] think has been in charge for the past 13 years?”.

Turkish President Erdogan doubled down accusing Israel of war crimes, saying Netanyahu should be tried as a war criminal.

Islamist propaganda is working to juice every advantage out of the Israel-Hamas conflict, with calls for attacks against Jews and the West.

Volodymyr Zelensky has again expressed his displeasure with the volume of Western weapons flowing into his country.

London council has cancelled its annual Hanukkah candles this year as doing so could “risk further inflaming tensions within our communities”.

Riots that followed a mass stabbing of children should be met with a “good, honest, decent beating”, senator storms in “frank” remarks.

Hamas attack against Israel is inspiring a fresh wave of extremism in Europe in new ways that haven’t been seen before, Germany warns.

Conor McGregor has called for “instant deportation” after councillor Azad Talukder said Irishmen should be summarily executed.

It is up to young people to rectify the mistake of Brexit, European President Ursula von der Leyen told a formal dinner for Brussels figures.

Two alleged Islamists arrested because Federal agents say they had set time and place for an attack to “kill as many as possible”.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) could grow again in just a matter of weeks as the alliance reacts to Russia’s invasion.

Could a new populist-right government rule a major European state? Here’s your complete guide to the how and who of the coming weeks.

Govt minister Michael Gove was cut off after he expressed there is a “significant body of judgement” that the Coronavirus was man-made.

The French government issues plea against vigilantism in the wake of the slaying of a teenager in rural France.

NATO reaffirms support for Ukraine and says its members all agree the nation will join the alliance, but not while the war is ongoing.

The number of illegals known crossing into Germany has collapsed in just weeks after the government decided to give border control a go.

The British public are considerably more conservative than the ruling Conservative party on the question of migration, polling shows.

While the foundational story of modern Ireland is throwing off British oppression, Dublin has been quick to borrow water cannon from the UK.

Varadkar addressed Ireland after a night of riots but seemed to have more to say about violence against the state than against children.

When asked what he would do about it, the Prime Minister seemed sanguine, saying only “we will look at that”.

Net migration to the UK has hit 672,000 a year, a crushing final blow to the final shreds of credibility for the Conservative Party.

Five people were injured in central Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday, two of them seriously in a mass stabbing.

One of Europe’s leading globalists will leave office and his hoped-for replacement, a Green-Left veteran Eurocrat has been soundly defeated.

Sweden could revoke residency from migrants who associate with criminal gangs, speak out against democracy, or defraud the welfare system.

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt brags of tax cuts while failing to mention they are massively outweighed by the huge scale of tax rises.

Russia hasn’t launched one of its advanced cruise missiles against Ukraine in months and is likely building up stocks.

Anti-Islamification populist Wilders is polled to come first in today’s national elections, but former a government may prove more difficult.

Spanish police have arrested three people over the shooting in the face of a veteran Spanish politician as he walked home from Church.

Belgian media reported debauched sex parties between wardens, but a female guard says her life has been destroyed by the allegations.

I dealt with snakes in the European Parliament and can cope with them in the jungle too, Mr. Brexit says in jungle camp reality show.

Sunak says his room to to cut taxes is limited as the Conservatives shifts to soften up its voters ahead of the looming general election.

Huge numbers of young Ukrainian men have fled the country to avoid being drafted in the army to fight Russia, a report states.

Lisa Nandy takes on JK Rowling, says one day people will feel “ashamed” for speaking of male-or-female biology over self-reported “gender”.
