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European Union (EU) officials are pressing ahead with plans to create an EU army, capitalising on the political vacuum caused by the imminent departure of Britain from the union to move the project forward.

Do your cooking thanks to gas made from your own food waste: that’s the eco-friendly solution proposed by Homebiogas, an Israeli company that has developed a “digester” that converts organic matter into biogas.

VIENNA (AFP) – Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz opposes any steps that would bring Turkey closer to joining the European Union, he said in remarks released Saturday.

The announcement of Sir Julian King’s new role as Europe’s new “Commissioner for the Security Union” has been celebrated by some as a sign of the European Commission getting serious about Brexit. They point out how King could have been given a derisory role which some Brussels insiders had previously joked about. This however ignores the reality of King’s new role.

(REUTERS) – Britain’s nominee for the European Commission will be put in charge of crafting a response to terrorism and promoting intelligence-sharing, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said, a tough role amid a spate of attacks in western Europe.

The European Commission president has said he keeps a black book of notes on anyone who has betrayed him, as well as denying kissing UKIP leader Nigel Farage after the Brexit vote.

A European terror expert who used to head up Berlin’s police and intelligence agency has denied that there is any link between the recent spate of terror attacks across France and Germany, and the migrant crisis which saw over a million completely un-vetted migrants enter Europe last year.

Jean-Claude Juncker has vowed that no matter how bad terrorism or the migrant crisis get, the European Union (EU) will never give up on open borders. The European Commission president said terrorism could be countered with better intelligence-sharing between member states.

United Nations (UN) representative Peter Sutherland has declared that European countries must open their borders to all, including economic migrants. Mr. Sutherland said that refusal to accept everyone who wants to live in Europe is an affront to the European values of dignity and equality of man.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain opened “very fruitful” trade talks with Canada on Friday, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the Sunday Times newspaper as he prepares to renegotiate Britain’s commercial ties following its vote last month to leave the European Union.

Multiculturalism, political correctness and mass migration are responsible for terror attacks in Europe, Poland’s interior minister has said. Blasting Western Europe’s response to terror — holding marches and drawing pictures of flowers — as ineffective, Mariusz Blaszczak said governments should

The European Union (EU) is to establish a permanent policy which will see the bloc invite “refugees” to legally settle in the continent year on year. The common EU Resettlement Framework aims to offer safe, legal routes for people deemed “in need

Writing for a conservative German newspaper, the Hungarian Prime Minister has called upon his fellow leaders to take back national powers from the European Union (EU), and blamed Brussels for creating the migrant crisis. Remarking that Brexit — the United

The former president of the of the European Commission, the European Union’s (EU) unelected executive arm, has been recruited as the new boss of international operations at Goldman Sachs, who funded official anti-Brexit campaign.

The Hungarian-American open borders advocate and billionaire George Soros has declared ‘Brexit’ could easily be overturned and that the European Union (EU) must then be “remade”, with power transferred from national governments to EU bodies. Speaking on a wide range

The European Commission (EC) have knocked back Nicola Sturgeon’s ambitions for Scotland to stay in the European Union (EU) in the wake of ‘Brexit’. In what will be a blow to the First Minister of Scotland, the Commission also confirmed

Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Union’s (EU) unelected executive arm, has complained that too many EU officials are listening to “national opinion” rather than pushing for an unwanted European super state. The UK has been a long-standing opponent of

The European Union (EU) plans to bypass national parliaments to implement controversial “free trade” deals, sources have revealed. A leaked letter to the EU’s trade commissioner reveals the Italian government supports blocking democracy on CETA, the “little sister” of the

The President of the European Commission has spoken out about the future of the European Union without Britain, saying that while he hoped Britain would not go the “nature” of the continental power bloc would not ultimately change. The reportedly

The Czech foreign minister has slammed mass Muslim migration to Europe. Lubomir Zaorálek defended Eastern Europe’s hardline approach to the migrant crisis, pointed to Paris and declared: “Don’t tell us that integration has succeeded”. In a wide ranging interview, Mr.

It has been reported that a former President of the European Commission has used his attendance at the secretive Bilderberg Conference to lobby for a current Commissioner’s appointment as United Nations (UN) Secretary-General. The former European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, has been attending

The European Commission has unveiled plans to massively increase legal migration from Africa with a relaunched “Blue Card” scheme to make Europe “more attractive” to people from the world’s poorest continent. The plans were in response to the up to

The European Commission plans to attack citizens’ right to online privacy, insisting that state-issued ID cards should be used to log into platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and even Uber. The Vice President for the Digital Single Market on the European Commission, former

Twitter users are expressing their support for people’s right to use so-called “hate speech” on social media, after the European Union (EU) announced they are working with Facebook and others to censor unwanted online speech within 24 hours. Yesterday, it

A number of left, liberal-leaning groups rode to the defence of free speech this morning after it was announced that the European Commission in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, would be heavily policing the internet for “hate speech”

Following the stunning announcement that the European Commission is working with major tech companies to squash the online virality of “hate speech”, the Guardian newspaper has implied the Orwellian rules do not go far enough. Breitbart London reported on the

The European Commission has today announced a partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft in order to crack down on what it classes as “illegal hate speech” while “criminaliz[ing]” perpetrators and “promoting independent counter-narratives” that the European Union favours. A press

Boris Johnson needs a re-education on the European Union (EU), Jean-Claude Juncker claims. Near simultaneously to Mr. Juncker’s outburst, one of the most senior figures in the EU tweeted that Mr. Johnson as Prime Minister would be a “horror scenario,” claiming the

The President of the unelected executive arm of the European Union (EU) has vowed to block all right wing populists from power across the continent, shortly after acquiring the power to exert “far-reaching sanctions” on elected governments. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the

The European Commissioner who said no European Union (EU) country could escape having “diversity” imposed on them has flown to Poland in the wake of a leaked document claiming the country “does not adhere to democratic standards.” Frans Timmermans is

Plain packaging of cigarettes is to be introduced in the UK tomorrow, following the failure of leading tobacco firms to challenge the legislation in the UK’s High Court today. Packs of ten cigarettes will also disappear from the nations shelves

The European Commission will next week propose video streaming services like Netflix be forced to have European works making up “at least” 20% of their catalogues. They also intend to require that watch-on-demand services “contribute financially” to the production of European

Jack Schickler is listed by the pro-European Union ‘InFacts’ website as a “journalist”. But Mr. Schickler’s background reveals him to be a recent European Commission employee, in the UK “only until the referendum”. So why would we trust anything he says? The

The European Commission has proposed spending millions on futuristic facial recognition technology to keep track of ‘irregular migrants’. They also slammed rules blocking states from accessing existing data on criminal migrants. The proposals, from the European Union’s (EU) unelected executive arm,

The European Union (EU) has appointed a man tasked with imposing ‘European values’ on the entire globe, and solving time-old divisions over culture, and religious conflict. EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker named the new ‘Special Envoy for the promotion of

Eurozone finance ministers hold an emergency meeting on Monday to try to thrash out a difficult deal on fresh reforms for Greece as fears grow of a repeat of last year’s chaotic bailout negotiations.