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Facebook (now known as Meta) is facing a $414 million fine from European regulators, who ruled that the company’s services illegally deployed targeted ads using data that tracks users around the internet.

Officials within Germany’s federal government are reportedly pushing for a bill to legalise cannabis in the country to be drawn up “as soon as possible”.

The EU aims to increase its ability to deport illegal migrants, the bloc’s Home Affairs commissioner has claimed amid a growing wave of illegal immigration into the bloc.

Medical officials within Germany are calling for blanket COVID restrictions to be implemented across the EU on arrivals from China.

Anti-Brexit Member of the European Parliament and former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt has labelled Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a “traitor” for suggesting the Ukraine war would end if weapons shipments were stopped.

This year, former President Donald Trump was proven right in his critiques of the globalist green agenda of the European Union and its reliance on Russian energy, which following the war in Ukraine have both been exposed as devastating failures of leadership.

The Chief Constable of Police Scotland is under fire for referring to paedophiles by their preferred term “minor-attracted people” (MAPs) in a European Union-linked report. 

Croatia is to be the latest European nation to abandon its financial independence in exchange for integration within the European system.

Finland’s first floating liquefied natural gas terminal was moored Wednesday at the southern port of Inkoo to replace Russian gas imports.

The 19-year-old son of Italy’s Matteo Salvini, leader of the populist League (Lega) party, Deputy Prime Minister, and Infrastructure Minister, was threatened with a broken glass bottle and robbed of his phone on the streets of Milan.

Elon Musk has been criticised for describing outlandish Russian predictions of the United States and European Union collapsing and a Fourth Reich rising in Germany and going to war with France as “epic” on Twitter, before clarifying that he regarded them as “absurd”.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbs on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier, a day after Serbia put its troops near the border on a high level of combat readiness.

With Ukraine in flames and the EU green agenda in pieces, 2022 was the year that fears over food and energy security once again hit Europe.

The elderly suspect in a Paris mass shooting that sparked violent riots before Christmas developed a “hatred of foreigners” after a home invasion in 2016, according to reports. 

Only a third of Leave voters think Brexit is going well – under a political class that has barely tried to implement it – although only 47 per cent of all voters would vote to undo it, polls suggest.

Viktor Orbán called for the dissolution of the European Parliament after allegations that leftist parliamentarians took bribes from Qatar.

Migrants are three times as likely to receive asylum in the UK as they are in France, according to research conducted by Migration Watch UK.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly agreed to settle two European Union antitrust cases related to the company’s alleged treatment of third-party sellers on its platform. The company will dodge any fines in relation to the cases. 

The Qatar corruption scanda involving Members of European Parliament is “damaging the credibility” of the EU, Charles Michel admitted

Brussels has reportedly summoned tech-billionaire Elon Musk to the European Parliament to discuss “hate speech” problems in relation to his social media network, Twitter.

Qatar obliquely threatened to cut the EU from its supply of natural gas amid claims that the Islamist nation bribed officials in Brussels.

A newly released Eurobarometer survey conducted by the European Parliament has revealed that under half of Greeks support the European Union’s stance on Ukraine.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says the massive corruption scandal in the European Union should be used as an opportunity to “drain the swamp” in Brussels.

No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), a pro-human rights and democracy organization, and Fight Impunity, which seeks to bring rights abusers to book, share the same address, on prime real estate in the governmental quarter of the Belgian capital.

Poland’s top police officer was hospitalised after firing a grenade launcher gifted to him by Ukraine in his office, according to reports.

The EU threatened to sanction Twitter following the suspension of journalists over allegedly sharing private location of Elon Musk’s jet.

The European Parliament voted on Thursday to recognise the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 — frequently known as the Holodomor — as a state-sponsored genocide committed by Soviet Russia.

Legacy parties and groups within the European Union are now “constantly playing down” the ongoing corruption scandal plaguing parliament, one MEP has claimed.

The partner of jailed European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili has reportedly confessed to charges of corruption, a Belgian newspaper has reported.

The European Union is completely reliant on foreign imports for 14 “critical” raw materials needed for industry, a study has found.

The spectre of future energy blackouts is once again looming in Germany, with the country’s plan to cut consumption falling significantly short amid cold winter weather.

Trade ties between Russia and Germany could resume if Moscow decides to end its war in Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said this week.

“Hundreds of thousands” of migrants ostensibly from Ukraine are now expected to arrive in Europe over the coming months, the head of one NGO has claimed.

A suitcase described as being “full of cash” has been seized by police as part of an investigation into EU corruption, which has seen a number of socialist MEPs forced to step down from their positions

Serious gas shortages across the EU are now on the cards for next year, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned.

The Vice-President of the European Parliament has been formally charged with corruption and has reportedly been imprisoned.