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The prime minister of Hungary has accused the European Union’s leadership of insulting member-states, abusing its powers, and “eating out of the hand” of billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros.

A large contingent of British MEPs — including two senior Tories — have been accused of ‘treachery’ after voting with their EU counterparts against progressing the Brexit negotiations to trade talks.

The best thing about Brexit will be the fact Nigel Farage will never speak in the European Parliament again, a Spanish MEP blasted in the chamber.

The European Union has doubled down on its support for police brutality in Catalonia, with European Commission First Vice-president Frans Timmermans dubbing it “proportionate use of force”.

Nigel Farage has said Tories should use their ongoing party conference as an opportunity to begin saying in public what they have been telling him in private: Theresa May is a “waste of space” and needs to go.

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly against progressing Brexit negotiations on to trade talks, deciding that Britain has not made “sufficient progress” on its demands with respect to the EU court and a so-called divorce bill.

The EU has broken its silence on the violent suppression of Catalonia independence referendum, with the Commission backing Madrid and the Vice-president of the European Parliament branding the vote a “nationalistic coup against Europe”.

Leila Khaled, a convicted Palestinian hijacker who has continued to advocate violence against Israelis, is reportedly slated to give two talks in Spain in the next few days despite attempts by Israeli officials to block her.

The European Parliament has moved to block Brexit talks progressing onto trade, demanding European Union (EU) courts retain power on British soil after Brexit and the UK pays an even higher ‘divorce bill’.

The European Parliament has been accused of trying to “criminalise” pro-life views and opposition abortion, after passing a paper describing restricting abortion as “violence” and demanding “all the Member States to guarantee… legal abortion.”

The biggest grouping of politicians in the European Parliament has run into embarrassment after releasing a video which appears to claim that Zurich, Switzerland, and the city-state of Monaco are inside the European Union.

Charles Tannock MEP has claimed an Irish passport in order to retain his EU citizenship, announcing he is “quite ashamed to be British”.

Hans-Olaf Henkel has warned that top EU negotiators “want to make a mess” of Brexit in order to keep other Eurosceptic member-states in line.

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused the European Parliament’s Brexit boss of leading a “colonialist” and “high handed” approach to negotiations.

The migration spokesman for the Greens in the European Union (EU) Parliament has called for Brussels to resettle “whole villages” of migrants in Eastern Europe.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have called for an investigation of member-state Hungary to determine whether its laws are in “serious breach of EU values.” The move reflects deep concerns within the EU about whether there has been a

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered a stinging speech in the European Parliament Wednesday, asserting Hungary’s right to self-governance and defending its actions regarding immigration and against American financial speculator George Soros.

The European Parliament’s chief Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, has described Britain’s upcoming snap election as an attempted “power grab” by Theresa May, and vowed it will not soften the EU’s hardline negotiating stance.

The European People’s Party, which includes European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as a member, has called for a ban on the Islamic face veil in the whole of the European Union.

Front National (FN) Secretary General and French MEP Nicolas Bay hailed Britain in the European Parliament saying that he “saluted the courage” of the British people and Brexit.

A group representing a majority of MEPs have demanded the European Parliament start disciplinary proceedings against Hungary, over laws seen as targeting globalist financier George Soros which have been likened to Nazi Germany.

Guy Verhofstadt, who will represent the European Parliament in the upcoming Brexit negotiations, has said the younger generation in Britain will take the country back into EU.

Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has blasted the European Union for trying to force the United Kingdom to pay a £53 billion “ransom” before it will agree to trade talks.

STRASBOURG (FRANCE) (AFP) – The European Parliament will on Wednesday lay down its “red lines” for negotiations over a Brexit deal, on which the assembly will have the final say in two years’ time.

A Swedish MEP has called for asylum seekers arriving in the European Union (EU) to be assigned a destination country rather than have free choice.

The European Parliament is to create a “private army” to protect its president and MEPs as part of an almost two-billion euro spending spree. Britain, despite its vote to Leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, will help foot the bill.

MEPs have demanded the bloc suspend visa-free access to U.S. citizens because Washington, D.C. denies citizens of five European Union (EU) countries from its no-visa policy.

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Polish European Parliament lawmaker may face punishment after telling the legislature that women should earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and “less intelligent.”

Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has said “left-wing and liberal politicians” in the European Union (EU) are attacking his country because they cannot accept its refusal to permit illegal immigrants to violate its borders en masse.

European officials are mounting an unprecedented campaign to block President Trump’s putative nomination of Ted Malloch as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (EU).

The European Parliament has introduced new rules which could see populist speeches wiped from the system without citizens ever knowing that they had taken place. The unprecedented move, which gives the president the power to pull the plug on speakers deemed

Opinion polls indicate that Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament who has been selected as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for the German chancellorship, may be set to end Angela Merkel’s almost twelve-year reign. Opinion polls

The President of the European Parliament (EP) called for massive investments in Africa on Tuesday, warning that millions of African migrants could arrive otherwise.

Nigel Farage has slammed European Union (EU) institutions for continuing to foster large scale immigration from Muslim countries in opposition to the wishes of the people of Europe.

European Parliament’s chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt accused British Eurosceptics of destroying Winston Churchill’s legacy in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

PARIS, France — The founder of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been charged with inciting hatred for alleged anti-Semitic remarks in 2014, his lawyer said Saturday.