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German lawmakers on Friday approved legislation easing the rules on gaining citizenship and ending restrictions on holding dual citizenship.

Illegal migration into the European Union has hit its highest level since 2016 after surging by 17 per cent over last year, Frontex reported.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called more censorship of “disinformation” at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

Farmers rose up in protest in France on Tuesday, with manure being dumped and hay set on fire in Avignon and Toulouse.

The E.U. Parliament’s former Brexit coordinator and sometime Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt on Tuesday expressed his despair at former President Donald Trump’s storming victory overnight in the Iowa Republican caucuses.

France and Germany vowed to continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia for “as long as necessary”.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani argued the formation of an EU Army was worth sacrificing the national sovereignty for security.

Donald Trump told Breitbart News that the recent wave of populist and conservative victories, from Italy to Argentina and more, show that international populist conservatives’ movement is “stronger” than it was in 2016.

European Council President Charles Michel will step down from his top EU post in order to run in June’s European Parliament elections.

Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine ended their protest after reaching an agreement with their government.

There were over 127,000 “unauthorised entries” by migrants recorded in Germany in 2023, the highest since the Europe Migrant Crisis of 2015.

Populist parties surged in Europe in 2023 as the failures of the open borders agenda were put on full display for the world to see.

An Albanian court ordered house arrest for former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition party to the governing socialists.

West too fragmented, too slow, and will be attacked by Putin’s Russia if it doesn’t do more to help Ukraine, their foreign minister says.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister says the country has largely completed the process of shifting its oil exports from Europe to China and India.

Austria previously blocked Bulgaria´s and Romania´s entry into the Schengen Area over concerns about illegal immigration.

The EU is reportedly preparing to use a Covid-era accounting trick and skirt Hungary’s veto on continuing to send billions to Ukraine. 

Massive preoccupation of those at the top with increasing their own power and expanding the EU eastwards into former Soviet states laid bare.

Voters are base, hormone-driven creatures who can be manipulated through fear into ignoring the “lucid” left, worries EU boss Josep Borrell.

National Broadcasting Council boss criticises Communist-era style practices as Eurocrat Donald Tusk purges national media landscape. 

Christmas holiday travel is soaring in Europe as travellers defy government security warnings and admonitions to fly less in the name of saving the environment.

The British Army is now the smallest it has been in 200 years while in Germany the defence minister speaks of bringing back conscription.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says his country will have plenty of opportunities in the future to interrupt Ukraine’s process of joining the EU.

The EU failed to agree on a $54 billion aid packagefor Ukraine, even as the bloc decided Thursday to open accession negotiations.

Amazon won’t have to pay about 250 million euros in back taxes after EU judges ruled in favor of the U.S. e-commerce giant.

Ireland´s prime minister said the EU is losing its credibility because of a lack of a strong position in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Hungary PM Viktor Orban restated position that Ukraine is not, by the EU’s own rules, ready to join and no exception should be granted.

The unhappy COP28 climate alarmism summit in Dubai rolled into its final scheduled day on Tuesday without the crown jewel sought by hardcore activists: a worldwide agreement to phase out fossil fuels.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vanished from prison last week, with no explanation from the authorities and no information about where he was taken.

Incoming Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk promised closer ties with the EU and to be a champion for the war in Ukraine.

A report highlights the danger migrants are put in by callous people smugglers, who grow rich on human suffering. 

Zelensky’s chief of staff urged U.S. lawmakers to approve billions more in aid to Ukraine, warning they may lose the war without more money.

The fertility rate in the Netherlands continues its long-term downward trend as more couples decide to have no children at all.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government informed Beijing that Italy is withdrawing from the Belt and Road global domination scheme.

“Polarization” caused by the Israel-Hamas war is leading to a “huge risk of terrorist attacks”, an EU commissioner has warned.

European Union lawmakers allegedly accepted €4 million in bribes to use their influence to advance the aims of Morocco, Mauritania, and Qatar.