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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.

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.

“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.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has responded to news of high-level corruption arrests in the European Parliament, suggesting they prove Britain made the right choice by breaking with the bloc.

A group of far-left anarchist extremists in Greece have taken credit for the firebombing of vehicles outside of the home of an Italian diplomat in Athens that took place earlier this month.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads after shots and explosions rang out overnight, Kosovo police and media reported. No injuries were reported.

Moroccans rioted on the streets of Paris in the wake of their country’s win over Portugal in Qatar at the World Cup.

“Over many decades, the Parliament has allowed a culture of impunity to develop, with a combination of lax financial rules and controls and a complete lack of independent (or indeed any) ethics oversight,” Transparency International’s director Michiel van Hulten said.

A vice president of the European Parliament was arrested in connection to a corruption case involving the Islamist government of Qatar.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin should be banned due to their “excessive ecological footprint”, a top European Central banker said this week.

The leader of Poland’s governing party says Germany is trying to strip sovereignty from EU member-states in order to dominate Europe, and left-liberal opposition leader Donald Tusk is helping them.

The European Union has seen imports of liquid natural gas from Russia rise to record levels this year, sending billions of euros to Moscow.

France praised itself as a green “pioneer” after it got permission from Brussels to ban some short-haul flights, preferring trains instead. 

EU officials have lashed out at plans aimed at pushing domestic manufacturing in the United States over accusations that it harms the bloc’s interests.

Any attempt by the European Union to send another $19bn to Ukraine will be blocked by Hungary, Viktor Orbán has declared.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels’ European Union quarter. She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived – 32 other people did not.

Germany is “sleepwalking” into another migrant crisis as more waves of Ukrainians are expected to flee the country, a leading MEP warned.

French President Emmanuel Macron demanded that Elon Musk abides by European Union restrictions on speech on Twitter in a meeting on Friday.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is comparable to Britain’s historic rule of Ireland, the chief of the European Commission suggested on Friday.

So far this year, Cyprus has deported around 70 per cent of all arriving illegals — showing countries like Britain that large-scale returns are not impossible after all.

France may still see power cuts and therefore will seek to import energy from Britain and other European neighbours, a utility chairman said.

The European Commission has deleted references to the Ukrainians having lost 100,000 military personnel in a speech by President Ursula von der Leyen. 

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Europe should look to rekindle Soviet-era peace agreements with Vladimir Putin.

Germany has banned farmers in one of its federal states from properly fertilising large swathes of land at the behest of the EU’s green agenda.

Leftist government plans to see Germany go green have been utterly destroyed by ongoing Russian energy shortages.

Ursula von der Leyen said that Ukraine will need at least €600 billion to be rebuilt and that Russia should be forced to pay for the damages.

Twitter could be banned from the EU if Elon Musk continues with his free speech reforms, a senior official within the bloc has reportedly said.

A party hosted by the EU Foreign Aid department on its own proprietary “metaverse” that cost around ~$400,000 to build reportedly flopped on Tuesday, with almost no one attending.

The Dutch government’s plans to buy out and shut down thousands of farms has been branded as the “Great Reset in full force”.

“Hatred of the West” largely inspired rioting Moroccans who flipped cars and set fire to property in Brussels after a World Cup game last Sunday, an expert has claimed.

The Tony Blair Institute is calling on the next British government to resolve issues with the European Union by simply copy-pasting European Law into British law — rendering Brexit meaningless. 

Seventy years after the founding of the forerunner to the European Union, the bloc has done “a lot of damage” to the continent, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) said during a “birthday” event.