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Greek authorities have arrested seven Egyptian nationals accused of people-smuggling after a boat with nearly 500 migrants aboard was brought to the island of Crete this week.

A five-year-old migrant girl reported to have died trying to cross from Turkey into Greece may never have existed in the first place, an investigation has claimed.

The website of the EU parliament experienced a significant cyber attack on Wednesday shortly after it declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

Twitter has reportedly shut down its office in Brussels this week in a potential shot across the bow at the bloc over freedom of speech.

Gazprom threatened to cut off all gas supplies to Europe after alleging that Ukraine stole gas transiting through their country.

Commission announces an “Action Plan” to stem illegals crossing the Med, prompting migrant taxi NGOs to complain it would criminalise them.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage is threatening a comeback to “obliterate” the Conservative (Tory) Party after reports they intend to reverse Brexit.

The EU’s top diplomat was holding talks Monday in a bid to defuse tensions amid a dispute over vehicle license plates.

Senior UK government officials are considering pushing the UK back into the EU’s customs union despite the Brexit vote, reports have claimed.

The Swedish parliament has approved a constitutional amendment to criminalise foreign espionage and disclosure of secret information, limiting what the press may report on certain subjects.

European Commission Vice-President Dubravka Šuica has suggested that Europe should increase migration from Africa and other areas in a bid to stem the demographic problems the continent faces due to an ageing population.

Rishi Sunak has apparently resigned himself to the reality that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. under Biden is likely not forthcoming,

The European Union has confirmed the launch of an EU Military Assistance Mission to train some 15,000 Ukrainians for the war with Russia.

Frontex reports there have been over 275k illegal crossings into the EU so far this year, figures not seen since the migrant crisis in 2016. 

The EU´s border agency said the number of illegal migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year.

The EU has reportedly set its sights on establishing a 5,000-man “rapid deployment” military force by 2025, a report has claimed.

More than 40,000 boat migrants have now arrived in Britain this year, with nearly 1,000 arriving on Saturday alone.

Despite promising to take in 3,500 migrants from other European Union countries, France has received just 38 people since June — and will not take any more after Italy rejected port access to an NGO’s migrant “taxi” ship.

In a resolution adopted this week, the European Union has condemned structural and institutional racism along with denouncing the demographic theory of a “Great Replacement”.

German lawmakers approved a plan to keep the country’s three remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April.

The number of deaths caused by drugs in Finland has tripled since 2000 with drug deaths peaking in 2020.

A suspected terrorist has stabbed one policeman to death and shot another in the chest with the slain officer’s service weapon, in Brussels, the national capital of Belgium and the principal capital of the European Union. 

Members of the European Parliament are concerned not doing enough is being done to investigate spyware surveiling politicians and journalists.

Riots broke out in Athens as thousands of people protested in response to the soaring inflation rates befalling the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday formally announced the “end of the Barkhane operation,” France’s decade-long mission against jihadis in the Sahel region of Africa.

A German MEP has blamed the European Union’s Green Deal for causing its current energy crisis, describing the climate project as an “ideology-driven monster”.

Despite many green agenda-loving bigwigs pushing for countries to ration the use of heating and cooling, the COP27 conference is reportedly blasting its elite attendees with air conditioning in 80-degree Egyptian heat.

Over half-a-dozen Iranian advocacy groups issued a letter calling out European governments for “complacency” toward the brutal Islamic regime, while demanding more sanctions and cutting diplomatic ties with the Islamic republic as ongoing protests continue to rock cities across Iran.

German authorities have only deported five of some 317 Islamist threats currently residing in the country this year, official data has revealed.

An attack Monday by unknown hackers idled the website of the Polish government office regulating public investment.

Senior politicians within one ruling German party are demanding that authorities crack down on Twitter after the platform was bought by Elon Musk.

One councillor has claimed that her constituents have been left “afraid to walk the streets” after an influx of asylum seekers into her town, where migrants now make up over one-fifth of the population.

Legendary Greek footballer Vassilis Tsiartas has been given a 10-month suspended prison sentence over comments critical of child sex changes. 

There must be no so-called “pandemic amnesty” in the wake of draconian lockdowns across the EU, a representative within the bloc’s parliament has said.

The Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) of Ireland has taken it upon himself to weigh in on layoffs at Twitter, recently published by Tesla’s Elon Musk.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Representatives of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo on Saturday resigned from their posts in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow the government’s decision on vehicle license plates.