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The issue of food security has been “criminally neglected” by the European Union amid the ongoing fertiliser shortage, an MEP has claimed.

Support for left-wing parties has collapsed in Berlin after elections were re-run in the city on Sunday over “errors” in the previous ballot.

An MEP tells Breitbart it is outrageous the EU is handing out cash to lobbyists who promote ‘anti-nation, anti-family, anti-life’ policies.

The head of a mosque in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has called for a law to ban the destruction of holy books and texts in the aftermath of the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

European Union leaders claim they will increase security on the bloc’s common external border after illegal arrivals topped 330,000 last year, the highest number since the 2015-16 migrant crisis.

Germany is using the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as an excuse to weaken border controls, vowing to allow in many more migrants said to be fleeing the crisis.

Bulgarian border guards have been accused of pushing back and even beating illegal immigrants by open borders activists and others, but the Bulgarian authorities deny any abuses have taken place.

Angela Merkel has been awarded a peace prize for her open borders approach to the European migrant crisis in 2015.

A EU lawmaker linked to a corruption scandal that rocked the bloc’s Parliament in December was detained for questioning Friday.

Officials within the European Union have heavily criticised Elon Musk’s Twitter for failing a so-called “disinformation” test set out by the bloc.

An ongoing bribery scandal plaguing the European Union is a “socialist problem”, the leader of the centre-right European People’s Party has claimed.

Germany’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine will leave a “huge gap” in the country’s defences, an official from the country has warned.

Thousands of French farmers descended upon Paris in response to the government’s quiescence to the latest EU green agenda diktat.

A group of Muslims shouting ‘Allahu Ackbar’ marched behind a protest in favour of Ireland’s open borders approach to immigration on Monday.

Over four in ten Germans believe the sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine have done more harm to their country than Russia.

The European Union (EU) is looking to enact policies to phase out “fast fashion” to reduce the amount of clothing waste among member states.

Amid the bloc’s ongoing bribery scandal, a small group of leftist MEPs in the EU have launched an anti-corruption hotline backed by a group linked to progressive billionaire George Soros.

European investigators have shut down an encrypted communication service that was used as a secure channel for organized crime, they say.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cypriots on Sunday began voting for their eighth president in the ethnically divided island’s 63-year history as an independent republic, with three front-runners each portraying themselves as the safest bet to guide the country through turbulent economic times and to seek peace with breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

Germany is reportedly considering diverting green agenda cash aimed at reducing coal power to the defence industry, amid the war in Ukraine.

A socialist MP working within the EU is suspected to have taken over $100,000 in bribes over the past two years, a report from the bloc’s parliament has claimed.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank chugged ahead with another outsized interest rate hike Thursday and vowed more to come, underlining its drive to subdue inflation even as the European economy slows and the U.S. Federal Reserve eases its pace of increases.

Statistics released by the French interior ministry have revealed that nearly all serious crimes increased in number last year, including murder, sexual violence, and theft.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is not a madman but “radically rational”, according to Emmanuel Macron’s predecessor as President of France.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank is set for another large interest rate increase to fight painfully high inflation even after the U.S. Federal Reserve slowed its pace, a divergence that underlines Europe’s later start and could speed the euro’s rebound from recent lows against the dollar.

VIENNA (AP) – Austria’s government said Thursday that it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to UN agencies in the city, to leave the country.

Three years to the day after the UK mostly left the EU, Britons who voted to leave are right to feel betrayed, Farage has said.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine may not have happened without Brexit, top Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt claimed on Tuesday.

A man was arrested at Schuman station, a subway stop beneath the European Commission headquarters, after a stabbing rampage on a train.

The Ukrainian government has revealed it plans to be a full European Union member-state within two years ahead of a historic Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv.

Sweden and Turkey announced large discoveries of rare earth minerals this month. Sweden’s discovery in particular could be a major step toward breaking Chinese dominance in the rare earth industry.

Women should be open to being conscripted into the military in light of the threat posed by Russia, Denmark’s defence minister said.

Germany has announced 13,000 illegals were deported in 2022, around half the number from the year prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus. 

The European Union is considering restricting visas to countries that do not accept deportations following a meeting in Sweden. 

Retired army General Petr Pavel defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis in a runoff vote on Saturday to become the new Czech president.

Italian PM Georgia Meloni held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government, signing an gas dea worthl $8 billion.