Millions of voters in the 28 member states of the European Union will head to the polls later this month to cast their ballots in the elections to the European Parliament, yet they overwhelmingly think that their voice is not
In a stunning split with official European Union foreign policy on Russian, France will press ahead with a €1.2bn contract to sell helicopter carriers to Russia because cancelling the deal would do more damage to Paris than to Moscow, French
Members of the European Parliament have been spending more than €5m a year on alleged “fact finding” trips to some of the most luxurious destinations on the world, with 160 trips charged to taxpayers in the last two years alone.
The European Union should have the power to raise taxes and use the money for “making investments on behalf of national governments,” according to one of the candidates to succeed José Manuel Barroso as next president of the European Commission.
Morocco is reported to be building a razor-topped wall near Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla to stop illegal migrants crossing into Europe. Local human rights NGOs are claiming that construction work for the barrier began 20 days ago, according
In a speech which can only help UKIP and other eurosceptic parties in the run up to elections to the European Parliament later this month, the prime minister of Italy Matteo Renzi has called for a United States of Europe
In an extraordinary online video, illegal migrants in Italy have been telling their fellow countrymen not to come to Italy “because you will starve.” A man identified only as Roshan from Sri Lanka faces the camera and says: “This country
Anti-European Union campaigners built and armed a tank with which they allegedly planned to used to “liberate” St Mark’s Square in Venice in the run up to the elections to the European Parliament later this month. Italian police found the
Journalists from one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers have used information fed to them by a far-left group to identify the email addresses and names of anonymous right-wing online commenters in a disturbing public “outing.” People who were found to have
Last night Roger Helmer, the MEP who has been selected as UKIP’s candidate in the by-election on June 5th, told Breitbart London that he felt ‘”vindicated” he had left the Conservative party: “I left on a matter of principle. But
The influence of Anjem Choudary, the London-based hate preacher who wants to establish an Islamic state in Britain, has now reached into the Muslim community in Scandinavia. Last week it was disclosed that a Norwegian jihadist killed in Syria fighting
The European Commission is pumping propaganda money into Britain, trying to interfere in the elections to the European Parliament. International Alert, an international “peace building” group set up in 1986 in response to ethnic conflict and genocide in Asia and
Thousands of Irish men and women poured into the centre of Dublin yesterday [Saturday] in a “National Vigil for Life,” the first step in a pro-life campaign to dismantle Ireland’s year-old abortion legislation, as reported by the Irish Times. David
France’s Le Figaro magazine today is running a cover story into what it calls ‘L’Argent Secret du Front National‘ –The Secret Money of the Front National, in what could be a last-ditch attempt by the French political establishment to stop the
In a crass and ill-timed intervention, the unelected president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has warned Vladimir Putin that the EU intends ultimately to control every country on the western flank of Russia. In an interview with De Standaard newspaper,
Gerard Schroeder, the former German chancellor whose Social Democrat party is now in coalition with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has been pictured embracing Vladimir Putin after a party in St Petersburg. The embrace, which has attracted widespread criticism in Germany,
Anti-European Union protest parties could win as much as 31 per cent of the vote in the elections to the European Parliament next month, taking 218 out of 751 seats, a gain of 54 seats. However the effect of this
Sinn Fein, the political wing of the terrorist Provisional IRA, is emerging as “the kingpin” of Irish politics, according to the latest opinion poll taken in the run-up to the elections to the European Parliament. The party, once considered so
A secret memo has been passed around top members of the coalition, including the Prime Minister and his deputy Nick Clegg, outlining what kind of political heavyweight needs to be appointed as Britain’s next European Commissioner. The Number 10 memo
At least ten European Union institutions, including the European Commission and the European Parliament, remain open to huge corruption because of poor enforcement of rules on ethics, transparency and financial control. According to a report by the European office of
One of Europe’s most powerful media tycoons has accused Google of seeking to create a digital ‘superstate’ outside the control of national regulators and privacy laws. Mathias Döpfner, head of the giant German multi-media company Axel Springer, says Wir haben
A court in Brussels has barred Uber, an international taxi network which allows passengers to summon a private driver by smartphone app, from operating in the EU capital. PCWorld.com reports that the court has threatened a €10,000 for every pick-up Uber
Viewed from London, the report by the Times that Nigel Farage faces an investigation by OLAF, the European Commission’s anti-fraud office, for ‘missing’ EU funds looks like a smear. Viewed from Brussels, it looks like a joke. Not only is
Ireland, once a rock-solid Christian country, has now become so intolerant of Christian beliefs that its leading opponent of gay marriage may be forced to leave the country because of fears for his personal safety. After repeated threats and obscene
The financial industry now wields so much power in Brussels that 900 of 1700 European Parliamentary amendments tabled to an EU directive on hedge funds and private equity funds were actually authored by financial industry lobbyists. In a report published
The reports have been running on both sides of the Atlantic: conservatives are mobilising in France and this may be the start of a French Tea Party Movement. But before American conservatives start to cheer and look for soul-mates across
In most cases, the humiliation of French socialist President Francois Hollande in Sunday’s final round of national local elections could mean nothing but joy for the eurosceptics among Britain’s Conservatives. The euro-enthusiast Hollande has been battered by Marine LePen’s anti-EU
Hans-Peter Martin, the Austrian member of the European Parliament who risked the fury of his fellow MEPs when he blew the lid on their vast and secret travel expenses, announced today that he is going to quit politics because of
Members of the European Parliament have heard how Dutch social services seized ten-year old twins from a Russian-speaking Latvian family long resident in The Netherlands because the mother spoke Russian to the children in the home. Dutch child protection authorities
Police in The Netherlands are helping opponents of right-wing politician Geert Wilders by handing out a standard form, known as the ‘Wildersformulier,’ to anyone wanting to make a criminal complaint against him. Moroccans and other immigrants, as well as left-wing
