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As Breitbart London exclusively forecast on Friday, Geert Wilders’ anti-EU, anti-immigration Dutch Freedom Party has taken one more seat in the European Parliament than first exit polls indicated. Wilders’ party looks on course now to have four MEPs of the

Despite the EU establishment bragging that this election to the European Parliament has 400m voters, the turnout is so low that nowhere near half that number have cast ballots. In fact, the total number of people eligible to vote is

Italy’s Five Star Movement, led by the raucous comedian Beppe Grillo who has denounced the EU-supporting social-democratic Prime Minister Renzi as “a little moron,” has joined the surge of eurosceptic parties across the European Union. According to @electionista, an average

The right-wing, anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, which sits with the UK Independence Party in the European Parliament, has overtaken both parties in the coalition government and is leading the election, according to exit polls. The eurosceptic party appears to have

Marine Le Pen’s right-wing anti-EU Front National looks set to take 23 to 25 of France’s 74 seats in the European Parliament. Exit polls show the centre-right UMP of former president Nicholas Sarkozy will take between 18 and 21, while

First exit polls show that Germany’s new anti-euro party, the Alternative for Germany (AfP), is on course to win its first seats in the European Parliament, heading for 7 per cent of the vote, an increase on its showing in

Four people were killed in an attack by a gunman at the Jewish Museum in the center of Brussels on Sunday afternoon. The gunman fled, but a suspect was later arrested, according to the Belgian newspaper La Libre. Earlier reports

Finland’s conservative National Coalition appears to be in a clear lead over other parties in the elections for the European Parliament, according to an opinion poll published by the public broadcaster Yle. Finland remains of particular interest in EU politics

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front, has responded ferociously to a report that she is “flirting” with Golden Dawn, the far-right Greek party many in the political mainstream called neo-Nazi. With just hours to go before the elections

Geert Wilders and his right-wing, anti-euro Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) may not have done as badly in Thursday’s elections to the European Parliament as the first exit polls suggested. Reuters reported on Thursday evening that an IPSOS exit poll on

Observe the European Commission long enough, and all you will see is confirmation of Abraham Kaplan’s 1964 law of the instrument: “Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” In this case,

A former German chancellor has said the European Parliament should launch “a putsch” against the European Union executive which is showing signs of “megalomania.” In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, Helmut Schmidt, who was social democrat Chancellor of

Members of one of Italy’s right-wing anti-immigration parties, Forza Nuova  — “New Force” — have staged a demonstration at a swimming pool in Venice to protest against a special women-only time slot being given to allow Muslim women to swim.

Police have launched a murder investigation after cleaners found the body of a newborn baby in the lavatory of an Austrian Railways train in Munich, according to The Local. The cleaners found the body at 4 a.m., five hours after

The attempt by members of the European Parliament to force the European Council – that is, the heads of state and government of the EU member states – to choose their candidate to be the next president of the European

In what looks like a calculated outburst on the eve of the elections to the European Parliament, Nicholas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has called for half the powers of the European Union to be abolished and seized back

In a spectacular vanity project, the members of the European Parliament and their bureaucrats are spending up to €1.5m of taxpayers’ money to give their assembly chamber a one-night-only make-over for the broadcast of the election results on Sunday evening.

Anybody who actually follows Italian politics can only watch that Jeremy Paxman interview with Silvio Berlusconi and shout at the screen: “Wrong unf**kable question, Paxo!” And not because of the gimmick Paxman used to make sure this performance – if

Anybody who knows the French right-wing knows it has never been anything like the American right-wing — at least, not until now. In an interview on Monday with the Financial Times, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French right-wing Front

An opinion poll out at the weekend could mean disappointment for the German socialist euro-fanatic Martin Schulz who wants to be the next president of the European Commission. A TNS poll reported in EU Observer shows that the centre-right parties

The Swiss have overwhelmingly voted to reject proposals to create the world’s highest minimum wage because they were worried increased business costs could damage their economy. In a referendum on Sunday, 76 per cent of voters turned down proposals made

In what could be a dangerous example of the European Union elite refusing to learn from their mistakes in Ukraine, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, has said he will sign an agreement with Moldova in June which

Using criteria which some American constitutional scholars may consider incorrect – or at least conveniently Scandinavian — a two-man academic study financed by Norway’s foreign ministry has come to the conclusion that the Norwegian constitution is better than the United

The German Ministry of Environment has falsified the conclusions of a UN climate change report in the German-language version released last week, in an attempt to hide the fact that the country’s ‘green policies’ are useless. The ministry’s four-page summary

In what could be an attempt to discredit Hungary’s far-right party just days before the elections to the European Parliament, a ‘Jobbik’ MEP has been accused of being a Russian spy. Jobbik which most analysts regard as being on the

“To understand Europe you have to be a genius or French,” said an exasperated Madeleine Albright when she was US Secretary of State. So if, like Secretary Albright, you are not up to speed on the European Union debate, despite

Thousands of young people who are say they are “pro-European but anti-European Union” held a march in Vienna yesterday as part of the Identity Movement which has sprung up in France, Germany and Austria. The movement, known in the Germanic

In what at first glance looks like an inexplicable mixture of tolerance and intolerance, two studies just released rate Norway as both the most pro-gay and the most anti-Semitic of the traditionally-liberal Scandinavian countries. An index to attitudes in 100

In a move that will outrage millions of conservative French voters, the head of the French Socialist party has ceded his spot in a debate with Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing eurosceptic Front National, to Martin Schulz, a

The Austrian army is in so much financial trouble that its regiments cannot afford fuel and soldiers are forced to walk everywhere because vehicles are so scarce. Gerald Klug, the Social Democrat defence minister, has said that the army “is

Almost 200 US Marines have been moved from their base in Spain to the US Naval Air Station at Sigonella in Sicily in case the American embassy in Libya comes under threat. The Pentagon said this was a precaution due

Eurosur, the EU’s new €340m border surveillance system meant to intercept illegal migrants trying to get across the Mediterranean has so far proved useless. Since it was launched in December, there has been a three-fold increase in the number of

Despite a doubling of powers for the European Parliament in the last two decades – a triumph for what the euro-elite call “more Europe” – turnout in elections to the European Parliament fell from 57 per cent in 1994 to

A new study by social scientists in Germany has found that tolerance of homosexuality has increased in almost all of Germany’s 16 states, but people remain ambivalent about accepting diversity and are highly sceptical about immigration. “Even in Bavaria, the

A tax-payer funded project in the German city of Essen to get unemployed alcoholics back to work cleaning litter from streets has sparked controversy by offering beer as pay for those who take part. The project, planned by charity Addict