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EU President Jean-Claude Juncker was handed the European leader of the year prize at the European Leadership Awards gala ceremony on Monday.

Reopening Italian ports to NGO boats has “become urgent” amid fighting in Libya, the European Commission has said, declaring a common EU asylum policy “essential” for sharing future migrants out across the bloc.

Vice President of the European Commission Jyrki Katainen has said demanded Poland hand over more money to the EU and said it should adopt the euro single currency.

The EU will make sure eurosceptic candidates are blocked from top jobs in Brussels regardless of the results of May’s election, Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has bragged.

The European Parliament has approved a multi-billion euro EU Defence Fund described as “terrible and highly political” by a senior British Armed Forces veteran, as the bloc’s plans for a European Army — once dismissed as “fantasy” — plod forwards.

Information about talks between Tony Blair and George Soros have been redacted from official reports from Davos meetings published by the European Commission, it is alleged.

Deadly Easter suicide bombings targeting Christians in Sri Lanka were an attack on people of “all faiths”, according to EU Foreign Affairs chief Federica Mogherini.

Britain should use the six-month delay before Brexit to “cool down” and reverse its decision to leave the EU, Frans Timmermans has said.

The EU has set up its own “fact checking” service in order to combat the spread of so-called “fake news” ahead of May’s European elections.

Europe must take a “proactive approach” to increasing the level of immigration to the bloc, according to a new European Commission report proclaiming migrants would become “increasingly important” in the EU strategy for economic growth.

The Hungarian government claims a suspected Islamic State terrorist who entered Europe posing as a refugee was in possession of a pre-paid debit card from the European Union, and that the EU has issued 64,000 such cards to migrants. 

The Czech Republic’s right-populist president Andrej Babiš has criticised the cost for host nations to hold the rotating Council of the European Union — one of seven presidents of the bloc.

The European Commission has announced that all of its preparatory work for a clean, no-deal Brexit is complete — four days before the UK was officially scheduled to leave the bloc.

Internal documents reveal that Brussels plans to incorporate the controversial UN migration pact into the EU’s legal framework “through the back door”, Austria and Hungary have warned.

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has told the UK to “finalise preparations for no deal” after Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she is set to ask the bloc to delay Brexit.

Some 40 people were preventively evacuated from a building near to European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bomb threat was sent to a company linked to the EU.

Senior EU officials have reportedly said they would only accept a long delay to Brexit if the UK uses the time to decide between cancelling Brexit, agreeing a softer exit — staying in the Single Market and Customs Union — or calling a second referendum.

Theresa May has secured some last-minute concessions on her proposed deal with the European Union ahead of Parliament’s second vote on it.

They grew up in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia and can place Israel on a map, but many young refugees in Sweden have never heard of the Holocaust.

The European Union has rejected British overtures to adopt the portion of the struggling Brexit deal securing the rights of EU migrants in Britain and British expatriates in the European Union, in order to provide assurance to their respective citizens.

Eurocrats including the Commission president are working hand-in-hand with George Soros to flood the bloc with migrants, Hungary is warning citizens in a new poster campaign ahead of EU elections in May.

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans has begun openly lobbying against Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, denigrating his voters as “weak” people with a “phobia for others”.

European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker has changed the rules governing the political activity of European Union Commissioners, allowing them to actively campaign in the upcoming EU Parliament elections.

The Hungarian government has excoriated the leadership of the European Union and “European Socialists” across the bloc for “following the orders” of a network centred on billionaire activist George Soros to increase mass migration.

Brexit architect Nigel Farage warned that Britons will become “even more angry” with Brussels bureaucrats over their refusal to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement.

Concerns have been raised “about the number and severity of injuries resulting from the use of force by law enforcement officers” during Yellow Vest anti-government protests in Paris by a pan-European human right body.

The European Union (EU) has launched infringement proceedings that could lead to sanctions against Austria over a controversial new reform to benefit payments for children living abroad.

An Italian court has cleared the way for potential prosecution of populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini over allegations including kidnapping related to a migrant vessel incident in August.

Members of the European Parliament have voted in favour of introducing financial sanctions as punishment for patriotic countries that reject the bloc’s progressive “European values.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that the European Union does not understand post-Communist eastern countries, as the bloc bears down on Poland over sovereignty.