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European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen has argued that more legal mass migration is needed to reduce illegal entries while announcing a pilot scheme to import migrants into Europe from India.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz blasted Trump’s National Security Strategy paper, which criticised European Union nations for engaging in mass migration and censorship.

President Donald Trump warned Europe on Monday it is heading in “very bad directions” just days after he excoriated the continent over its unrestrained mass migration flood and looming “civilizational erasure.”

A top EU official warned the U.S. against interfering in Europe’s affairs over critiques of the bloc’s censorship policies.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reportedly filed hundreds of criminal complaints against members of the public for insulting him during his tenure as a politician.

Tesla chief Elon Musk has called for the abolition of the European Union as a political entity and a return of national sovereignty to the continent in the wake of Brussels announcing a $140 million fine against his X social media platform for supposedly violating the bloc’s censorship law.

Left-led govt appears to have begun what may be process of softening up public for overturning largest democratic mandate in British history.

Europe faces imminent “civilisational erasure” driven by the hapless E.U. and unrestricted mass migration, President Donald Trump’s administration warned Thursday in a new strategy document.

Former E.U. Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini resigned from her position as head of the College of Europe on Thursday hours after being detained and accused of corruption in an ongoing investigation.

The European Union’s former foreign policy chief faces corruption accusations alongside two other people arrested this week.

Russia would totally eliminate European opponents and be left with “nobody to negotiate with” if war came, Putin said in belligerent remarks.

Bulgaria´s government said Tuesday it is withdrawing a controversial budget proposal after an evening demonstration drew tens of thousands.

Georgian authorities detained an opposition party leader Saturday on suspicion of trying to set fire to the Tbilisi City Court office building, the Interior Ministry said.

Bulgaria´s government announced it is withdrawing its 2026 budget, following street protests over steep tax increases.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went to Brussels this week with a refreshingly direct message.

European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc.

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that all member states must recognize same-sex marriages conducted in other EU nations.

Secretary Lutnick told European representatives that their tech regulations unfairly disadvantage American companies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that his “main problem” with the 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States is that it legally recognizes territory Russia stole from Ukraine by force during the invasion that began in 2022.

The United States on Monday urged the European Union to rethink its approach to digital regulation if it wants a deal to lower painful US tariffs on the bloc’s steel exports.

Nations clinched a deal at the UN’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazon Saturday without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries.

European leaders are set to meet in South Africa on Saturday to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine seen as favoring Moscow, while a top Ukrainian delegation prepares for direct talks with Washington.

Thousands of people took to the streets of North Macedonia’s capital on Saturday demanding justice for the victims of a nightclub fire – the deadliest blaze in the country’s history – ahead of the trial next week of the club owner and others.

The justice and energy ministers of Ukraine resigned on Wednesday, the latest officials to be toppled by a fast-growing corruption scandal involving the energy industry.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed criticism from E.U. officials over the legality of military strikes against illicit drug traffickers in Caribbean international waters — emphasizing the United States is protecting its people from narco terrorists who would seek to harm them.

The European Commission has reportedly begun forming a new intelligence service, which is set to be under the control of President Ursula von der Leyen.

Euro states once occupied by the Soviet Union are controlled as pawns by British puppet-masters who don’t care for them, Moscow claims.

Hungary’s annual pro-Israel summit rallied behind a single pledge — “No migration, no antisemitism, no terrorism” — as speakers from Hungary, Israel, and the United States declared that Central Europe is defending faith, borders, and freedom while much of the West drifts into moral confusion.

The United States Agency for Global Media has formally transmitted a Congressional Notification to House appropriators advising that the agency will terminate and cease funding the Hungarian Language Service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ending U.S. taxpayer support for woke content broadcast into a NATO-allied nation.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi sounded the alarm on proposed European Union regulations, charging that they could deindustrialize Europe.

President Zelensky “emphasised” to the leaders of his backers that they “must” provide financial aid for another “two or three years”. 

European Union ministers approved plans to gradually phase out Russian gas imports by the start of 2028 to reduce reliance on Moscow amid criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump that the bloc has been funding both sides of the war in Ukraine.

A letter signed by a group of 19 EU member states and Norway has called on Brussels to greenlight the return of illegal and criminal Afghan migrants back to the Taliban-run state.

France may be teetering on the verge of national snap elections, but the poll-topping sovereigntist is banned from even standing.