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Fired antitrust official Roger Alford testified before House Judiciary Democrats this week, attacking the Trump administration that stripped him of power while praising EU tech regulations and Democrat attorneys general such as Letitia James.

In what looks set to be a significant blow to the green agenda, the European Union will scrap its planned ban on the combustion engine, Manfred Weber, a leading lawmaker in Brussels, has claimed.

Newly revealed documents show that trade officials in the Biden administration coordinated with European Union counterparts in shaping provisions of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) now being used to penalize U.S. tech companies, including Elon Musk’s X.

European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen has argued that more legal mass migration is needed to reduce illegal entries while announcing a pilot scheme to import migrants into Europe from India.

The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using web publishers’ content for AI purposes without appropriate compensation.

A top EU official warned the U.S. against interfering in Europe’s affairs over critiques of the bloc’s censorship policies.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly filed hundreds of criminal complaints against members of the public for insulting him during his tenure as a politician.

The European Commission has issued a $140 million fine to Elon Musk’s X for violating the EU’s controversial Digital Services Act (DSA). The fine is likely to escalate tensions between the EU and America over free speech online.

Georgian authorities detained an opposition party leader Saturday on suspicion of trying to set fire to the Tbilisi City Court office building, the Interior Ministry said.

European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc.

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that all member states must recognize same-sex marriages conducted in other EU nations.

The United States on Monday urged the European Union to rethink its approach to digital regulation if it wants a deal to lower painful US tariffs on the bloc’s steel exports.

Nations clinched a deal at the UN’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazon Saturday without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries.

The EU has opened an investigation into Google over claims that the tech giant has been unfairly demoting commercial content from news media sites in its search results.

European Union ministers approved plans to gradually phase out Russian gas imports by the start of 2028 to reduce reliance on Moscow amid criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump that the bloc has been funding both sides of the war in Ukraine.

A letter signed by a group of 19 EU member states and Norway has called on Brussels to greenlight the return of illegal and criminal Afghan migrants back to the Taliban-run state.

European Parliament lawmakers voted on Wednesday to prohibit the use of meat terms like burger or sausage to market so-called veggie alternatives.

Meta  is set to launch paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the United Kingdom. The UK government welcomes the option of a paid social media subscription, saying that it “moves Meta away from targeting users with ads as part of the standard terms and conditions for using its Facebook and Instagram services, which we’ve been clear is not in line with UK law.”

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee has voted to uphold the immunity for Italian MEP Ilaria Salis, who faces attempted murder charges in Hungary over an alleged Antifa hammer attack in Budapest.

The head of the European Parliament’s trade committee said Wednesday he has “doubts” about aspects of the EU’s trade deal with the Trump administration and predicted the deal could be amended during the legislative approval process.

A European activist’s use of AI to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers beneath their masks has ignited a heated debate over the ethical implications of AI-powered surveillance and its potential impact on law enforcement.

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by radar jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday.

Multiple postal services around Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

A court in Vienna ruled this week that Islamic Sharia law can be legally upheld in Austria in civil disputes, sparking accusations that the nation’s Christian values are being undermined by multiculturalism.

Brussels is using the supposed threat of climate change to fund mass migration into the European Union, Danish MEP Anders Vistisen said.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that it has made an initial selection of 11 projects to develop high-tech nuclear test reactors, part of the Trump administration’s ambitious plans to rebuild a domestic nuclear supply chain and quadruple U.S. nuclear energy output by 2050.

A meeting in Britain between U.S. Vice President JD Vance, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and representatives from Kyiv made “significant progress” towards ending the war in Ukraine.

Amid a flood of internal criticism, the centre-right government in Sweden appears to be backtracking on its “one-sided” stance towards Israel, potentially including its calls to cut off EU trade.

European leaders appear to be in two minds about the historic trade deal negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, with some praising the pragmatism of avoiding a broader trade war and others lambasting the deal as an effective surrender on behalf of Brussels.

In the hours following the Sunday announcement of the landmark trade deal agreed to by the United States and the European Union, a stinging reality began to sink in across the Old Continent: Brussels blinked, and the EU leadership had been utterly routed by President Donald Trump and his White House.

resident Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he’s sending a new anti-corruption bill to Ukraine’s Parliament on Thursday, in a further attempt to defuse tensions after he approved changes to graft laws that brought a public outcry and sharp criticism from the European Union.

European leaders demanded a more balanced relationship with China at a summit with President Xi Jinping in the Chinese capital on Thursday.

A German-Franco-led summit on Friday saw six nations demand that the European Union as a whole enact stricter regulations on asylum and step up border controls, in an apparent departure from the open borders orthodoxy that has dominated over the past decade.

The EU will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods scheduled to take effect Monday in hopes of reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration by the end of the month.<

The European Commission is reportedly planning to push for changes to EU foreign aid policy, requiring countries in Africa to prevent illegal migration to Europe in order to receive funding.

Addressing EU parliamentarians on Tuesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stressed that the European project can only work if national distinctions and borders are respected, arguing that the mass migration agenda over the past decade has hurt the most disadvantaged people in European societies.