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Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.

Vladimir Putin’s Russia is deliberately creating a global food crisis as well as a massive migrant crisis in the hopes of putting pressure on Europe, one leader has claimed.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen duked it out on Wednesday evening, with the populist challenger pressuring the President in a debate on subjects including Islamism, immigration and the economy.

Lithuania’s parliament has successfully cancelled part of the alphabet, passing a law that will see the symbolic use of the letters ‘Z’ and ‘V’ banned over their links with Russia.

Registrations of new cars are down 20%, blamed by industry on “ongoing supply chain disruptions, further exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”. 

Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face each other in a grudge match debate on Wednesday evening as polling between the two suggests that the election for the French Presidency remains a toss-up.

Climate crazies in Germany have threatened to start cutting off oil and gas pipelines until the government acquiesces to the group’s green demands.

Germany has once again decided that its Green Agenda trumps its current crippling energy crisis, with the country’s climate minister dismissing fracking as a way of obtaining much-needed gas.

The Islamic State terrorist group has called on followers to avenge its recently killed leader and take advantage of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine to carry out terror attacks in Europe. On Sunday,  Abu Omar al-Muhajir, the spokesman for the Islamic

Emmanuel Macron has doubled down on his green agenda in the hopes of wooing leftist voters as fear grows that populist Le Pen may snatch victory.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “Western Europe is not just following the U.S.” in pushing back against Russian aggression, and “in many important ways, they’re leading the way.” Brooks said, “Well, the U.S.

Ireland is beginning to see itself buried under a migrant crisis of biblical proportions, with towns in the country’s west seeing their populations double thanks to the surge in refugees.

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been denounced by a former British ambassador to France for talking up a military alliance with post-Brexit Britain.

A man of Middle Eastern origin was arrested in Ireland over the killings of gay men possibly inspired by, it is alleged, “religious zeal”.

As a number of EU leaders – including the President of Poland – visit Ukraine, Germany has been left licking its wounds after apparently being told that their head of state is ‘not wanted’ in the country.

A ‘sharp recession’ lies ahead for Germany should it be cut off from the Russian gas it is so badly addicted to.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rebuked US President Joe Biden’s accusation that Russian leader Vladimir Put is committing genocide in Ukraine, implying such claims are not ‘prudent’.

Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist.

As the global food crisis worsens thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, wholesale prices in Germany have spiked, seeing their greatest yearly rise in 60 years.

As the entire world faces into a period of serious food instability, Russian armed forces have been actively targetting wheat stocks in Ukraine for destruction, an EU official has claimed.

One European Green minister has announced that he is planning on banning a commonly used type of fossil fuel despite the ongoing energy crisis.

The Turkish government has claimed to have stopped over 1,7000 illegal immigrants from reaching Europe in the month of March.

The EU’s Green New Deal-style politics have made the bloc’s poor people even poorer while funding Russia’s war in Ukraine, an MEP has claimed.

Supplies of potato chips and various types of confectionery are now under threat as a result of disrupted export caused by sanctions and the Ukraine War.

As his main rival Marine Le Pen surges in the polls, Emmanuel Macron has bailed on a major debate featuring all other presidential election hopefuls.

The European Union looks set to launch sanctions against Hungary after Viktor Orbán achieved a landslide victory in the country’s recent general election.

One European minister is set to demand that the public turn down their thermostats and have shorter showers to save money before hiking carbon tax.

Germany’s left-wing Chancellor has openly verbally attacked a group of anti-lockdown protesters, accusing them of lying.

A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.

Germany’s lockdown-loving health minister still wants forced vax rules to be implemented in the country, despite parliament not supporting the measure.

A leading economist has declared that economic globalisation is now ‘over’ as a result of the Ukraine war.

Despite facing a chronic energy crisis, Germany has continued its Green crusade of shutting down hydrocarbon-fueled power plants.

Ireland’s open borders are being used by refugees to sneak into the UK, the country’s Local Government Association believes.

Up to 35,000 new homes need to be built in Ireland for Ukrainian refugees, many of which may never leave the country, the govt said.

Germany’s addiction to Russian gas has come to backfire on the European state, with one minister saying that the country is now suffering ‘in the most brutal way’ thanks to the policymaking of previous administrations.

There are difficult months ahead for Eurozone nations, with the head of Europe’s ECB warning that the ongoing Ukraine Crisis poses ‘significant’ dangers to the currency union.