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BRUSSELS (AP) – The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo failed Thursday to reach an agreement on longstanding border and mutual recognition issues that have spiked tensions in the Balkans and added to Europe’s instability during the war in Ukraine, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said.

A senior Eurocrat has called for a “Civil Protection Force” directly under the control of Brussels to be established to fight the impact of climate change.

Authorities in London are to slap the EU with formal proceedings for the first time over the union’s allegedly breaching parts of the Brexit agreement.

Over 100 people have been arrested by police in relation to demonstrations resisting EU green agenda plans that will see Dutch farmers lose their livelihoods.

The Irish government’s decision to spend around €1 billion on migrants in 2022 is “outrageous”, a populist leader within the country has said.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Italy cannot expel a migrant from its reception system, even if the migrant in question has been accused of violence.

French President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire for using a gas-guzzling jet ski while demanding citizens curtail their energy use.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Estonia decided Thursday to bar people from neighbouring Russia with tourist visas from entering the northernmost Baltic country as a consequence of the war in Ukraine.

MADRID (AP) – A plane provided by the Spanish government has brought 294 more Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain, authorities said Thursday, bringing to 3,900 the number evacuated by Madrid since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.

Elected representatives in the Netherlands have grilled the country’s government over exactly how many farms will be forced to close to satisfy the EU’s Great Reset green agenda.

The Dutch farmers have unveiled plans to protest during the famed Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain) bicycle race later this month.

Dozens of migrants are missing and feared to be dead after a boat smuggling them into Europe capsized off the coast of Greece.

Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes has slammed the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, describing the former president as a “victim” of  “the biggest scam”.

Dutch police have arrested two individuals who are suspected of dumping waste on one of the country’s highways during a farmer protest against EU green agenda rules.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has expressed dismay that Brexit has temporarily delayed efforts to normalise the consumption of bugs to achieve “net zero”.

The Polish government has reported that it has seen a new surge of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa attempt to cross into the country illegally from Belarus, claiming the migrants first fly to Russia.

(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.

The Dutch farmers have characterised the first round of negotiations with Prime Minister Mark Rutte as disappointing, with some declaring “stronger” actions will follow the meeting.

Jan Struijs, president of the Dutch police union, says the Netherlands, often praised by left-liberals for its drug decriminalisation policies, is now a “narco-state 2.0” where criminal dealers compete with the official Dutch economy.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán issued an astonishing denunciation of the United States’ governing Democrats at a speech in Texas, telling American conservatives they “hate you and slander you and the America you stand for.”

Dutch farmers once again took to the motorways to deploy flaming bales of hay as road blocks ahead of negotiations with the government.

Far-left extremists in the Netherlands have threatened to attack farms in the country belonging to “right-wing nationalists”.

Dutch farmers blocked a paper factory on Wednesday with their tractors to protest the double standards of the government’s green agenda.

German state television has been accused of editing in black clouds of smoke over a nuclear power station in a report on the ongoing energy crisis.

Home Secretary Priti Patel says the British government will hand the French millions of pounds yet again to try and persuade them to stop boat migrants as a record 600 land in a single day. 

Inflation within the Eurozone has hit yet another record high as the currency bloc struggles to deal with the ongoing gas crisis.

The socialist Prime Minister of Spain has told the public to ditch their ties to deal with the heat amid the energy crisis gripping Europe.

France has extended border controls that have been in place since 2015 in defiance of the European Union’s open borders Schengen treaty and a European Court decision that hinted the French policy was unlawful.

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has stated he is open to Italy being led by populist firebrand Giorgia Meloni, known for her fierce anti-communist rhetoric and socially conservative stances on abortion and gay marriage.

The Greek government has called on Germany to halt the sale of attack submarines to Turkey, arguing that the sale could upset the naval balance of power in the region as tensions with the Islamist-led country remain high.

MADRID (AP) – Spain has reported a second death in as many days from monkeypox, its health ministry said Saturday.

(AFP) – Russian energy giant Gazprom suspended gas supplies to Latvia on Saturday following tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine and sweeping European and U.S. sanctions against Russia.

Spain’s leftist government is pushing for more migrant workers and an illegal aliens amnesty to fill gaps in the workforce, despite the country having one of the highest rates of unemployment in the European Union.

Major highways were shut down as the direct action taken by Dutch farmers to blockade roads with manure and burning bales of hay continued.

Open borders loving states within the European Union have been forced to set up tent cities after running out of places to put migrants.

In protest against the governments plans to shut down vast swaths of farmlands, Dutch farmers dumped manure on highways across the country.