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Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has vowed to withdraw from the Dutch coalition government if his partner parties fail to implement strict migration controls within the next “few weeks”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has attempted to downplay the significance of the explosive report from his own government detailing the infiltration of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in France and throughout Europe, warning against the spread of so-called conspiracy theories.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said Sunday evening that he has agreed to delay additional tariffs on the European Union after receiving a call from EU chief Ursula von der Leyen requesting an extension to come to a trade deal.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen have launched a campaign calling for reforms to the European Convention on Human Rights and its associated court to return the ability of national governments to remove foreign criminals from their midst. 

Trump’s threat of a 50 percent tariff on EU imports might actually help the European Union overcome its dysfunction.

Donald Trump says talks with the European Union are being so unproductive he is recommending a “straight” 50 per cent tariff on bloc exports. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly seeking to impose sanctions to prevent the repair of the Nord Stream pipelines and to prevent the link between Russia and Germany from being restored should a Ukraine peace deal be brokered, sparking a backlash from populists within the top EU economy.

France is “determined” to recognise a Palestinian state, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning Israel.

British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has hailed a “new era” with the European Union as he unveiled a post-Brexit “reset” deal on Monday. Yet opponents have accused the left-wing government of “surrendering” to Brussels on key areas, including granting the bloc access to UK fishing waters for over a decade.

UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer continued his hardline rhetoric on migration over the weekend, admitting that the country has become “addicted to cheap” migrant workers to the detriment of young Britons. Yet the PM is reportedly on the cusp of a deal to open up more young migration from the EU to Britain.

Hungarian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar said on Thursday that President Donald Trump should not pressure Hungary to “decouple” from China because China is too important as an investor and trading partner.

The head of Budapest’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

The neo-liberal government of Poland has claimed that Russia has deployed an “unprecedented” level of disinformation and other interference tactics amid the impending presidential election, as the conservative challenger has gained in the polls.

On his first full day in office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lashed out at the Trump administration for raising concerns about the state of democracy in the European nation following the green light to spy on the opposition AfD party.

Centre-right leader Merz is the new Chancellor of Germany on the second time of trying, ten weeks after an inconclusive national election.

The campaign of neo-liberal Mayor of Bucharest to defeat self-styled “MAGA candidate” George Simion in the upcoming second round of the Romanian presidential election has struggled to gain the support of key establishment figures, portending difficulties in building a large enough coalition to take down the populist frontrunner.

The leftist-liberal coalition government of Romania appears on the precipice of collapse in the wake of the strong victory of populist George Simion in the first round of the redo presidential election on Sunday.

Populist-sovereigntist candidate George Simion came out on top in the first round of voting in the Romanian presidential election on Sunday. The election was held after the previous election was annulled, and the leading candidate was barred from running in the re-do contest.

The U.S. hailed a new step, stating Ukraine was willing to “give up land”, but a top Eurocrat has called that unacceptable.

The populist-sovereigntist leaders of Hungary and Slovakia warned this week that Brussels risks destroying the fabric of the European Union if the ascension of Ukraine into the bloc is forced through over their objections.

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Meta hundreds of millions of euros Wednesday as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.

Spain will meet NATO’s defense spending target this year, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, as pressure grows on the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy to boost its military expenditure.

Corruption concerns have been raised amid an investigation into the billions handed out from the EU to NGOs, allegedly in exchange for lobbying efforts on behalf of the European Commission to advance left-wing causes such as the green agenda. The

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday reported “good progress” on negotiations for a mineral rights deal between Ukraine and the United States.

The “end of history” is over and Europe is experiencing a “transatlantic crisis”, says Ursula von der Leyen.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due in Washington on Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump. She is expected to make a personal appeal for less punitive tariffs on European Union (E.U.) trade with the world’s biggest economy.

ATHENS, Greece — Greek Vice President and Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s trade actions against the Chinese Communist Party, while difficult for much of the rest of the world, are important to help the United States lead the West into a new era of prosperity.

An increasingly desperate China on Friday pleaded with European Union (E.U.) members to join with Beijing in resisting “unilateral bullying” posed by punitive tariffs introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Subsea cables are vulnerable to sabotage with potentially devastating consequences and investment is needed, they say.

UK defense minister urged military leaders to press ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police a peace agreement with Russia.

Union suspends tariffs against the U.S. in favour of a deal, saying it has “taken note” of Trump’s pause on every country except China. 

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s Prime Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Breitbart News exclusively this week in an interview at his office here in Maximos Mansion that his nation is prepared to help President Donald Trump as he seeks to expand the Abraham Accords and with other major economic development deals.

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he agrees with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s comments to Breitbart News about the potential for a “win-win” trade deal with the European Union (EU). 

EU talks tough game on tariffs but introduced its own at a lesser rate than the United States Wednesday, while saying it hopes to strike deal. 

ATHENS, Greece — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Breitbart News exclusively in an interview in his office here he believes Europe can reach a “win-win” trade deal with American President Donald Trump that is “mutually beneficial” for the United States and the European Union.

Germany has been accused of violating basic tenets of Western values yet again, as a news editor was convicted by a court for posting a meme mocking the government’s “hatred” of free speech.