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French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to hold “accountable” online outlets publishing foreign ‘propaganda’ for consumption in France.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch King Willem-Alexander is swearing in a new ruling coalition Monday, led for the fourth time by Mark Rutte, amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and policy challenges ranging from climate change to housing shortages to the future of agriculture.

Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of “Corona Apartheid” continues to operate in the EU country.

Just days after the Italian government announced it would be making vaccines mandatory for all residents over the age of 50, the Greek government is reported to be considering a similar policy.

Only 27 per cent of French people believe that the European Union is advantageous to France, polls suggest.

Riot police in the Cyprus resort town of Paphos fired warning shots as a group of around 200 migrants became unruly and launched attacks on officers with stones.

Lithuania has no intention of backing down from its struggle with Communist China or its support for Taiwan, an MP has told Breitbart News.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s leaders agreed Friday to toughen requirements for entry to restaurants and bars, and decided to shorten quarantine and self-isolation periods as the omicron variant spreads fast through the country.

Poland’s government has taken Meta to task for banning a eurosceptic party with representation in the Polish parliament from Facebook.

PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron maintained on Friday his rude remarks about the country’s minority of vaccine refusers, saying he cannot accept them infringing on others’ freedom.

Authorities in Sweden advised restaurants, cultural venues and leisure centers to ask their customers to show proof of vaccination.

France is allowing health workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients.

In a shock move, the French National Assembly rejected a push to transform the nation’s COVID pass into a fully vaccine passport.

A number of EU member states have echoed Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in their criticism of a new ‘green’ label for nuclear power.

The former President of the European Parliament has accused China of “hoarding food stocks”, which he claims has contributed to rising food prices.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government said Monday that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc´s plans for a climate-friendly future.

Nearly one-third of occupants in Italian prisons are migrants, with the latest official data showing over 17,000 prisoners came from abroad.

A German Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has suggested that the founders of BioNTech, which developed the Pfizer vaccine, should be put on Euro currency banknotes.

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands defied a ban and gathered Sunday for a demonstration against the Dutch government’s coronavirus lockdown measures before police pushed the crowd off an Amsterdam square.

The Euro — the centralised currency of the European Union — is to turn 20 years old on January 1st, 2022.

A shooting this week in the city of Linköping was the 47th fatal shooting so far this year, matching Sweden’s record-high number of shootings that took place in 2020.

The German government is to support France in the goal of making the European Union “more sovereign”, according to the country’s new foreign minister.

Germany is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country will shut all nuclear plants.

The United Kingdom will be imposing new border checks on goods being imported into Britain from the European Union.

New car models sold in the EU from mid-2022 will be required by law to record driving data that can be viewed in the event of an accident.

The Austrian government has announced it will be extending the general lockdown for all unvaccinated residents as the Omicron variant of the Wuhan virus spreads across the country.

Hotel revenues in Italy have plunged as much as 65 per cent as the sector describes suffering “one cancellation per minute” over the Chinese coronavirus and restrictions on the unvaccinated.

Greece’s health minister said Wednesday that music will be banned at all commercial venues for New Year’s celebrations.

PARIS (AP) – France’s government is forging ahead with efforts to increase pressure on unvaccinated people to get coronavirus jabs, as the omicron variant fuels a record surge in infections.

On Christmas Day, a man was found by police in the town of Sandviken with critical gunshot injuries, with investigators believing the incident is linked to yet another shooting in the Scandinavian country.

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two Afghan brothers with murder over the July killing of their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish for her Western way of life.

France announced new coronavirus regulations for the coming weeks including compulsory mask-wearing on city streets. 

EDIRNE, Turkey (AP) – Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees.

Thousands of performers, cinema operators, event organizers and others joined together Sunday to protest COVID restrictions in Brussels.

According to the European Union border agency Frontex, illegal migration increased by 70 per cent in the first ten months of 2021 compared to the prior year.

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the country’s governing ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has accused Germany of trying to create a “Fourth Reich” by pushing for a European Union federal state.