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Veterans for Britain has reiterated its concern the UK is being entangled in advanced plans for European military integration despite the Brexit vote, following the semi-official announcement of an ad hoc European Union (EU) military headquarters.

A report from global accountancy and business advice firm BDO indicates that confidence at British factories is soaring in the wake of the Brexit vote, as manufacturing giant Boeing announces the UK will host its first European plant.

Border violations at Ceuta and Melilla, autonomous port cities on the North African coast which have been Spanish for hundreds of years, have tripled over the past month following Moroccan threats to terminate security co-operation.

“Many in the West today are still making excuses for the crimes of communism; even the European Union itself is reluctant to unequivocally condemn them,” says Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner in the first round of France’s upcoming presidential elections, has declared it is “time do away” with the European Union (EU), which has become a “bureaucratic monster”. According to EU Observer, the Front National leader

The Hungarian government has vowed to fight efforts by the central organs of the European Union (EU) to withdraw “ever more powers” from the bloc’s elected national governments, centralising them in Brussels “without authorisation from the citizens”. Csaba Dömötör, Minister of

An unprecedented attempt by the European Union’s unelected executive to alter national policy in Poland, on the basis of supposed “rule of law” deficiencies, will end in failure, as Hungary refuses to support sanctions. The European Commission was attempting to

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, has admitted that search-and-rescue (SAR) missions in the Mediterranean Sea are strengthening criminal migrant smugglers’ business model and increasing total drowning deaths.

The European Union (EU) task force in the Mediterranean is doing a “wonderful job” of rescuing illegal migrants at sea and escorting them to Europe, say French MPs, but failing to fulfil its primary role of tackling criminal people-smugglers. “Today

In a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday, President Donald Trump agreed to a meeting in May with leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The summit is to be held in Brussels.

Both the former and current European Union (EU) trade boss has admitted a quickly negotiated Canada-style trade deal with the UK is possible, but demand the UK must drop its threat of economic retaliation.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The jihadists behind the Paris and Brussels terror attacks had planned to kidnap well-known figures in a bid to trade them for their brethren jailed in Belgium, media outlets reported Wednesday.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – Belgian police on Wednesday raided eight homes in the Brussels region as part of a counter-terrorism operation that is ongoing, prosecutors said.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The Islamic State suicide bombers who attacked Brussels airport last year targeted passengers travelling to the United States and also Jewish people, several sources told AFP.

European Union leaders have reacted angrily to the news that Britain wants to strike a brisk trade deal with the U.S., reminding Britain that no official deal can be done while she remains within the EU.

The families of victims of terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and Israel are blaming social media companies including Facebook and Twitter for facilitating communications among terrorists.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have released three people who were detained in a series of anti-terror raids in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, where some of the Paris and Brussels attackers lived or traveled. Ine Van Wymersch, spokeswoman for

Belgian anti-terror units are raiding Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, the densely populated suburb of Brussels which has been described as Europe’s “jihadi capital”. According to MailOnline the area was on “lockdown” on Saturday, with raids concentrated on the Rue Delaunoy. This is the same

British industry “boomed back to life” as 2016 drew to a close, defying the establishment forecasters who predicted an “immediate and profound shock” to the economy in the event of a vote to leave the European Union (EU).

From February, police in Brussels will undertake training to learn about Islam so as to foster “respectful” relations with the city’s Muslim communities.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities summoned soldiers to examine the contents of a package left outside the offices of the Turkish Federation in Brussels, amid fears it might have been a bomb. Brussels prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch said

A British court on Tuesday convicted a Belgian man living in Birmingham of giving money to Brussels and Paris terror attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Police have arrested 36 people, seized gold, cocaine, automatic weapons and millions of euros as they broke up a drugs and money-laundering ring operating between Morocco and Europe, Europol said Tuesday. The suspects and evidence were picked

Belgium has launched new security measures at Brussels Airport after suicide bombings there in March, taking inspiration from controls at Ben Gurion in Israel, among the most heavily protected airports in the world.

Turkish nationalists have attacked and attempted to burn down a Kurdish cultural central in Belgium, with its chairman blaming the Turkish government for inciting the violence.

Following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU), the nation has been stung with a £700 million EU budget increase, a leaked Treasury briefing has revealed.

Belgian People’s Party leader Mischaël Modrikamen has released a second video in support of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump after garnering millions of hits for his declaration that “America should not become another Brussels”. Shooting to prominence after his first short video

(AFP) – The brother of a man accused of attacking two Brussels police officers with a knife has been charged with terrorism offences, the Belgian federal prosecutor said on Friday. Aboubaker D., the brother of attack suspect Hicham Diop, was

Two police officers were attacked and stabbed in a suspected terror attack in the Brussels suburb of Schaarbeek at lunchtime Wednesday, as one of the city’s main rail stations was closed by a bomb threat. The two events took place near

Brussels (AFP) – Several thousand demonstrators gathered outside EU institutions in Brussels on Tuesday to protest against huge transatlantic trade deals linking Europe with Canada and the United States. The protests came after mass rallies in German cities on Saturday

BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Arsonists set fire to Belgium’s National Institute of Criminology in Brussels on Monday, causing an explosion but no casualties, a Brussels prosecutor said.

Three people have been injured in the EU capital, Brussels, after a woman attacked them on a bus with a knife.

TEL AVIV – The first ever caucus group at the European Parliament in support of West Bank settlements will be formed this fall, The Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Israel is taking measures to prevent an internal EU document that pins the blame for Palestinian terror on the “occupation” from being part of EU discussions on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of the Democratic Party (PD), still reeling from a series of recent mayoral losses to the populist Five Star Movement, is now facing the biggest challenge in his political career: a major bank crisis from accumulated bad debt.

A major police presence has been felt in central Brussels this afternoon as despite the extremely high temperatures a suspicious male wearing a heavy overcoat reported as having “wires” or “cables trailing from the bottom was spotted in the city.