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Dusting off the well-worn Russiagate playbook, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen suggested that an effort to dethrone her from her top position in Brussels was the product of interference from Moscow.

Apple has appealed a €500 million ($580 million) fine imposed by the European Union, labeling the penalty as “unprecedented” and the required changes to its App Store as “unlawful.”

The Irish government is reportedly set to reject demands from the European Union to implement hate speech legislation after Dublin abandoned plans to do so last year.

China said Sunday that European medical device companies will be barred from selling to the Chinese government as a countermeasure for the European Union’s restrictions on the sale of similar products from China.

Former Czech Prime Minister and current frontrunner in the upcoming elections, Andrej Babiš, has claimed a decision by the High Court in Prague this week to overturn an acquittal over alleged EU subsidy fraud was politically motivated.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk survived the vote of confidence in the parliament on Wednesday that he called for last week following his party’s disastrous defeat in the presidential elections.

Dutch citizens have begun organising themselves to perform checks along the German border, drawing praise from populist leader Geert Wilders and the ire of establishment politicians.

The incoming president of Poland has joined Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in opposing European Union membership for Ukraine, arguing that it would go against the interests of his people.

A man was fatally shot near Germany’s border with the Czech Republic after a federal police patrol stopped his car for a check and he fired at officers, police said Sunday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington next week to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, with the war in Ukraine and trade tensions among the items on the agenda, the German government said Saturday.

The European Union’s diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas said Saturday the continent was beefing up defence spending after “tough love” from the Trump administration, as she called for stronger ties to counter China’s “economic might”.

The democratic will of the Hungarian people to clamp down on the proliferation of LGBTQ+ ideology should be punished by the European Commission, a group of 16 EU countries demanded on Wednesday.

Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has vowed to withdraw from the Dutch coalition government if his partner parties fail to implement strict migration controls within the next “few weeks”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has attempted to downplay the significance of the explosive report from his own government detailing the infiltration of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in France and throughout Europe, warning against the spread of so-called conspiracy theories.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said Sunday evening that he has agreed to delay additional tariffs on the European Union after receiving a call from EU chief Ursula von der Leyen requesting an extension to come to a trade deal.

An explosive report from the French government has alleged that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood network has embarked upon a decades-long effort to forge a fifth column in France and across Europe, through infiltrating government institutions and radicalising Muslim communities, while veiling their true intentions with supposedly noble causes such as fighting “Islamophobia” all in the service of subverting the West and Sharia taking over.

British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has hailed a “new era” with the European Union as he unveiled a post-Brexit “reset” deal on Monday. Yet opponents have accused the left-wing government of “surrendering” to Brussels on key areas, including granting the bloc access to UK fishing waters for over a decade.

The head of Budapest’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

The neo-liberal government of Poland has claimed that Russia has deployed an “unprecedented” level of disinformation and other interference tactics amid the impending presidential election, as the conservative challenger has gained in the polls.

On his first full day in office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lashed out at the Trump administration for raising concerns about the state of democracy in the European nation following the green light to spy on the opposition AfD party.

The campaign of neo-liberal Mayor of Bucharest to defeat self-styled “MAGA candidate” George Simion in the upcoming second round of the Romanian presidential election has struggled to gain the support of key establishment figures, portending difficulties in building a large enough coalition to take down the populist frontrunner.

The leftist-liberal coalition government of Romania appears on the precipice of collapse in the wake of the strong victory of populist George Simion in the first round of the redo presidential election on Sunday.

Populist-sovereigntist candidate George Simion came out on top in the first round of voting in the Romanian presidential election on Sunday. The election was held after the previous election was annulled, and the leading candidate was barred from running in the re-do contest.

TikTok has been hit with a massive $600 million (€530 million) fine by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by sending European users’ data to servers in China.

The populist-sovereigntist leaders of Hungary and Slovakia warned this week that Brussels risks destroying the fabric of the European Union if the ascension of Ukraine into the bloc is forced through over their objections.

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.

Spain will meet NATO’s defense spending target this year, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, as pressure grows on the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy to boost its military expenditure.

Corruption concerns have been raised amid an investigation into the billions handed out from the EU to NGOs, allegedly in exchange for lobbying efforts on behalf of the European Commission to advance left-wing causes such as the green agenda. The

U.S. President Donald Trump shot down the European Union’s offer of a zero-tariff trade relationship on some goods, demanding that the bloc do more to rectify the significant trading imbalance, such as purchasing more American-produced energy.

France has reportedly overtaken Germany for the first time in years as the top destination in the European Union for alleged asylum seekers, a survey from the governing Commission has found.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that the bloc has offered a “zero-for-zero tariff” trade arrangement on industrial goods with the United States in a bid to avoid a full-on trade war.

France’s trade minister said the European Union’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be “extremely aggressive” amid increasingly heated rhetoric from Paris.

Protesters returned to the streets across Spain on Saturday in anger over high housing costs with no relief in sight.

Germany’s vice chancellor compared the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the impact President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs will have on the E.U. and threatened to “arm wrestle” the U.S. in a trade battle.

The freedom afforded to the United Kingdom by its Brexit withdrawal from the European Union has been credited with helping the country avoid the worst of the Trump tariff actions. 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pressing U.S. trade officials and the Trump administration to push back against an expected EU antitrust ruling that could undermine the company’s ad-based business model.