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A socialist MP working within the EU is suspected to have taken over $100,000 in bribes over the past two years, a report from the bloc’s parliament has claimed.

Statistics released by the French interior ministry have revealed that nearly all serious crimes increased in number last year, including murder, sexual violence, and theft.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is not a madman but “radically rational”, according to Emmanuel Macron’s predecessor as President of France.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank is set for another large interest rate increase to fight painfully high inflation even after the U.S. Federal Reserve slowed its pace, a divergence that underlines Europe’s later start and could speed the euro’s rebound from recent lows against the dollar.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine may not have happened without Brexit, top Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt claimed on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian government has revealed it plans to be a full European Union member-state within two years ahead of a historic Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv.

Women should be open to being conscripted into the military in light of the threat posed by Russia, Denmark’s defence minister said.

Italian PM Georgia Meloni held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government, signing an gas dea worthl $8 billion.

Russia now believes it is in a “war against Nato and the West,” a top official at the European Union an official said on Friday.

Senior officials within the European Union are now demanding deportations increase amid a spike in illegal migrant arrivals into the bloc.

The European Union has given the green light for two more species of insect to be used as food for humans.

Big-Pharma giants trading within the European Union have a “disproportionate” say in the bloc’s public health affairs, a study has claimed.

Bulgaria will hold another parliamentary election – its fifth in two years – after the Socialist Party said it failed to form a government.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described the ongoing bribery scandal plaguing the EU as being “infinitely painful”.

Tiktok runs the risk of being banned within the EU should it fail to censor content, an official from within the bloc has warned.

Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has admitted that the European Union’s so-called Northern Ireland Protocol was “imposed” on the British province without its people’s consent, and that he has “regret” about the way this was done.

Spotify and eight other app developers and associations have sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the EU Commission, urging her to take legal action against Apple’s app distribution methods. The letter states that “Apple benefits from a monopoly position over its mobile ecosystem and extracts exorbitant rents from app developers who have no choice but to remain on the App Store to reach European consumers.”

The worldwide food and fuel crises saw a spike in protests in countries across Europe in 2022, research by the American University has found.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz predicted firms will benefit from a “Ukrainian economic miracle” once the reconstruction effort begins.

An ex-Socialist MEP has admitted to being involved in a bribery scandal plaguing the European Parliament, with the official now promising to share “revealing” details with authorities regarding criminality within Brussels.

The United States will soon implement laws against so-called hate speech, a top Eurocrat claimed at the World Economic Forum.

A senior MEP within the European Parliament has accused the EU of trying to bring in “mass surveillance” with a new law controlling private online chats.

Forever war: Finnish PM Sanna Marin said Europe should support Ukraine “as long as needed” even if the war lasts upwards of 15 years.

Ursula von der Leyen has announced a fresh expansion of the EU’s green agenda during a speech to the World Economic Forum on Tuesday.

A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has accused the European Union of pushing “horrible propaganda” after a project described paedophiles as “people with a sexual interest in children”, accusing the bloc of seeking to rebrand them with a term that is both “more appealing and morally neutral”.

Officials within Brussels are mulling a possible ban on Pfizer officials from being allowed into the European Parliament, a report suggests.

VALAKELIAI, Lithuania (AP) – A powerful gas pipeline explosion that prompted the evacuation of a village in northern Lithuania was most likely caused by a technical malfunction, the head of the country’s natural gas transmission system said Saturday.

London’s anti-Brexit progressive mayor, Sadiq Khan, has called for a “pragmatic” debate to once again take place in Britain on the topic of rejoining the EU Single Market, with its associated Free Movement migration regime. 

(AFP) – The French and German foreign ministers called on Africa to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine on Friday, while pressing for deeper ties between the European Union and countries across the continent.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday.

PRAGUE (AP) – Populist billionaire Andrej Babis leads a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post of the Czech president.

Well over one-third of Europeans have been left struggling to pay their bill amid the ongoing cost inflation crisis, a government survey has revealed.

Political leaders in Europe have denounced recent protests that saw a number of government buildings in Brazil stormed by citizens on Sunday.

LESBOS, Greece (AP) – A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people-smuggling appeared in court Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.

Amid an influx of tens of thousands of migrants, the Irish government has reportedly decided to reopen a tent city, as locals protest the EU member-state’s open borders policies.

As Sweden takes on the Presidency of the European Council for the first six months of 2023, a Swedish ambassador has stated the country has no intentions of brokering a deal on curbing migration.