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Campaigners for the Leave side of the European Union (EU) referendum have criticised the “extraordinarily careless attitude” behind the European Parliament’s support for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia. Yesterday the European Parliament called on the EU to impose an arms embargo

The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may be threatened with expulsion from its European Parliament group after its leader said border guards should be able to use firearms against migrants as a last resort. Frauke Petry, national leader

In the wake of David Cameron’s really rather pathetic little deal – as evidenced by European Council President Donald Tusk’s somewhat derisory letter – the European Union referendum is all over the front pages. I particularly enjoyed the Sun’s front page

A UK Independence Party (UKIP) MEP has told the European Parliament that the atrocities committed by the Islamic State were due to their literalist interpretation of the Quran – and that mass immigration from Muslim countries should cease. His comments come just

In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are “clearly the most persecuted group” in the world. In Wednesday’s

This week, members of the UK Labour party voted against “any border controls… aimed at fighting terrorism” in the European Parliament, and in support of the “reintegration… of so-called ‘foreign’ fighters” who have left the Islamic State terror group. Members

In a move greeted by animal rights campaigners, the European Parliament yesterday overwhelmingly voted to prevent European Union (EU) agricultural subsidies being used to support traditional Spanish bullfighting. The EU has never specifically funded bullfighting, but an estimated €130 million a year allocated to

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s most senior representative in the European Parliament, Syed Kamall MEP, has today told the parliamentary chamber in Strasbourg that not only should Middle East countries take more migrants, but so too should the United States

The British taxpayer will be landed with an additional bill for our membership of the European Union (EU) next year, as MEPs voted to increase their budget by billions, defying national governments and their electorates who have voted for fiscal

TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) – European Union lawmakers have backed an EU plan to distribute 120,000 migrants among member countries in a fast-track measure aimed at relieving migration pressure on Greece, Italy and Hungary. The move in the European Parliament on

Britain may have to pay £90m for a scheme to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers around Europe, despite the Prime Minister saying it could encourage more migrants to risk their lives travelling across the continent. Downing Street admitted last night that

The latest users of the infamous adultery website Ashley Madison to have been exposed are European Union bureaucrats. The hack of the website’s membership list reveals 13 officials used work email addresses to register their interest, raising serious international security issues.

Cloaked in secrecy and controversy, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is facing further scrutiny from French Member of European Parliament Jean-Luc Shaffhauser, who claims the deal “is made to diminish the influence of the European Countries”.  The massive.

Strasbourg, France – A vote in the European Parliament on whether to continue with negotiations for an EU/US Trade deal has split Britain’s right wing parties, with the Conservatives backing the deal while UKIP is opposed. UKIP also failed to

The European Parliament refused to hold a one minute silence for the victims of Britain’s July 7th terrorist attacks, Breitbart London understands, before caving to the THIRD request of the day. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Islamist terror attack,

In over 16 years as an MEP, I’ve never seen such a vast amount of emails, correspondence, even members of the public phoning my office in Strasbourg as I have recently over the issue of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment

Andrzej Duda, the 43-year-old Polish President-Elect and a practicing Catholic, recently made a pilgrimage to the National Shrine at Czestowocha to pray for divine guidance as he prepares to lead his country.

Following the news that the European Parliament forced through a delay in both the vote and the debate on the “shady” Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), video has emerged of the parliamentary chamber descending into a shouting match. UKIP’s

Members of the European Parliament have voted eight to one against proposals which would inject greater accountability into their generous expenses schemes. The Parliamentarians from across Europe currently get £3000 a month as a ‘general fund’ paid directly into their bank accounts.

The U.S. State Department wants a “full, frank” acknowledgement of the facts surrounding the mass killing of Armenians in World War I, but demurred when it came to labeling it “a genocide.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that he “condemns” Pope Francis for his use of the expression “genocide” when referring to the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1917.

The UK Independence Party has expelled one of its MEPs, Janice Atkinson, along with her Chief of Staff Christine Hewitt, for bringing the party in to disrepute. Ms Hewitt was caught on camera asking a restaurant manager for a falsely

On Thursday, the European Parliament voted to approve its “Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2013 and the European Union’s policy on the matter,” which declares both same-sex marriage and abortion to be fundamental human rights.

A community in northeast Syria inhabited primarily by Assyrian Christians has been under steady assault by ISIS for the past 18 days, and they are barely holding on, according to Rima Tuezuen of the Syriac European Union. When the attack first began on February 23rd, ISIS abducted hundreds of Christian prisoners, only 23 of whom have been released so far.

The European Parliament was evacuated yesterday after a bomb scare forced the closure of three official buildings in the Belgian capital. Police were alerted to three possible bomb sites, including the American Embassy and the Brussels Court House called the

All airline passengers flying in and out of Europe are to have their personal data, including bank details, stored on a police database for up to five years in order to combat terrorism, under new plans from the European Commission.