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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been hit with a massive €797.72 million fine (roughly $840 million) by the European Commission for breaching EU antitrust rules related to its online classified ads service, Facebook Marketplace.

In preparation for President-Elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested that the bloc will look to replace Russian liquid natural gas (LNG) imports with supplies from the United States.

One person died and 13 people were wounded by a Russian drone in a residential area in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, local officials said Saturday, as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived in Kyiv to discuss European support for Ukraine.

A report commissioned for EU chief Ursula von der Leyen argued that the European Union should institute a bloc-wide international intelligence service to coordinate the espionage efforts of the 27 member states.

A leading Eurocrat has called for more controls on speech in order to confront the supposed scourge of “disinformation narratives” within the bloc.

In what may shape out to be a significant political victory for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the European Union looks set to follow Rome’s lead on illegal immigration in setting up detention centres outside of the bloc to hold illegal migrants rather than allowing aliens to remain in European territory.

Populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has thrown a wrench into globalist plans to extend funding for the Ukraine war in an apparent bid to give Donald Trump negotiating leverage should he return to the White House.

Scion to the Le Pen family political dynasty Marion Maréchal launched a new political party this week entitled “Identity-Liberties” as she vows to confront the spread of wokism, mass migration, and the Islamisation of her homeland of France and at the EU level.

The government of Italy has expelled Imam Zulfiqar Khan this week following calls from Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini to remove the Pakistani national over his radical Islamist preachings. 

Crowds participated in anti-Israel and pro-Israeli protests and memorial in Europe on the eve of anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel.

In a landmark case, the top European Union court has ruled that all member states must recognise gender changes made in other countries within the bloc

The European Union is being hindered by “whiteness”, according to a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy declared that France needs to “change everything” in how it handles the “problem” of immigration.

NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia´s officials said Saturday.

Google has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, accusing Microsoft of using unfair licensing contracts to stifle competition in the cloud computing industry. Google’s charges become especially interesting in light of the fact that the internet giant has itself been the subject of two different antitrust cases this year.

Populist leader Marine Le Pen has demanded a national audit of France’s finances to determine how Paris plunged the nation into a budgetary crises which threatens to take down the new government before it even gets off the ground.

The Biden-Harris administration refuses to publicly condemn threats against American freedom of speech by the European Union over an interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk on his social media platform X last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has revealed.

Citing “questionable governance” in Brussels, Thierry Breton has resigned as European Commission’s top censorship czar in a surprise announcement in the wake of a public spat over his threats to ban Elon Musk’s X platform in the bloc.

Italian prosecutors have been accused of conducting a political witch hunt as they seek to jail Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini for six years over blocking an NGO migrant taxi ship in 2019.

The Netherlands announced it will use emergency powers to declare an asylum crisis and will request to “opt-out” from EU migration diktats.

The European Union’s highest court ruled against Apple and Google on Tuesday in two landmark legal cases, delivering a major victory for the bloc’s efforts to regulate the technology industry, and leaving the tech giants facing billions in tax bills and penalties.

A nation is not really a nation if it cannot control its borders, and therefore issues surrounding immigration should be decided by national governments rather than at the European Union level, Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders argued.

The conservative government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has called on the EU to scrap its green agenda scheme to ban the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035.

Hungary said it will bus illegal migrants to the EU capital of Brussels if the bloc attempts to force Budapest into accepting supposed asylum seekers.

Today is a historic day. This case is for the defence of every citizen of the free West, and more countries should follow with legal action.

Dividends have begun to pay off for Giorgia Meloni’s migration strategy as figures show a 64 per cent reduction in illegal arrivals.

The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency’s deputy director said.

The leaders of Germany and the United Kingdom announced plans on Wednesday to draw up a treaty meant to deepen ties between the two nations.

The EU needs more migration to boost economic growth amid the birth rate decline among native populations, a top central banker has claimed.

The Labour government is facing accusations of betraying Brexit by reportedly considering a “free movement” scheme for EU migrants under 30.

A leading EU parliamentarian warned Elon Musk that X could be shut down entirely in the bloc over “disinformation and hate speech”.

The EU distanced itself from censorship threats made by Brussels’ speech code arbiter over Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump.

The EU demanded Monday that X owner Elon Musk abide by its speech restrictions during his planned uncensored interview with Donald Trump.  

Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic sharply increased last year, the country’s Jewish community said Monday.

The leftist-populist Slovak government announced it will not attend the closing ceremonies of the Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity.

Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation.