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Poland’s president gave Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a chance to form a government, despite his party losing its parliamentary majority.

Ursula von der Leyen continued to lobby for the cause of Ukraine joining the EU as she met with with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

The people of Germany need to become prepared to fight a war in Europe, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned.

A fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants became grounded, killing five people and leaving about 20 missing off the coast of Sicily.

Police in North Macedonia said they found 77 migrants in the country’s south and arrested seven Pakistanis suspected of human trafficking

Hundreds of Serbian officers were dispatched to a border area with Hungary after a shooting between migrants that killed three people.

Two cabinet members in the German government have called for asylum seeker benefits to be cut amid efforts to stem illegal migration.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz admitted “too many people are coming” into the country illegally and vowed deportations on a “large scale”.

A group of three Polish left-wing opposition parties have backed former Eurocrat and Brexit villain Donald Tusk to become Prime Minister.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti claimed that a gang tied to the government of Serbia was behind a deadly shootout on the border last month.

Slovenia said it will introduce border checks with Hungary and Croatia after Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia over terror concerns.

X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk has slammed the European Union over its work with NewsGuard, an organization that is a significant component of the global internet censorship industry, calling the organization a “scam” that “ought to be disbanded.”

The Tunisian terrorist who killed two people in a shooting in Brussels reportedly entered Europe by a people smuggler migrant boat in 2011.

The leaders of Belgium and Sweden called for increased deportation powers after a suspected Islamist terror attack in Brussels.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to come to a “ceasefire” with Ukraine during a meeting in Beijing.

The European Union announced it will triple financial aid to Gaza despite concerns of such funding propping up Hamas terrorists.

The EU has publicly admonished Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, for allegedly failing to adequately address the spread of illegal content and disinformation on its platform, particularly in relation to the recent violent attacks on Israel orchestrated by Hamas terrorists.

The Israeli government has laid partial blame for the Hamas attacks on the EU for aid used to produce anti-semitic school books in Palestine.

Leaders across Europe were quick to condemn what is being described as an “unprecedented” attack on Israel by Hamas militants.

The fervent push from Brussels to admit Ukraine into the European Union would see €186 billion transferred to Kyiv from other member states.

German Foreign Minister declared the EU will extend its borders into areas of Ukraine that have been occupied by Russia for almost a decade.

More than 2,500 illegal boat migrants have drowned to death or have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the U.N. reported.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said violence from migrants has “crossed the Rubicon” and that he will refuse EU demands to accept more migrants.

Kosovo’s prime minister said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia.

Mass migration could become the “dissolving force” of the European Union, Josep Borrell, the bloc’s top diplomat admitted.

Cyprus called on the EU to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there.

Polish President Duda reportedly cancelled a planned meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky at the U.N. as tensions rise over agricultural trade.

Poland has begun to enforce a ban on Russian-registered passenger cars, as the Kremlin threatened to cut diplomatic ties with Brussels.

President Recep Erdogan said Turkey may part ways with the European Union, implying the country is thinking about ending its membership bid.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni vowed “extraordinary measures” to deal with the migrant crisis, including calling anew for a naval blockade.

European regulators hit the China-owned app TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children’s privacy on the platform. This is reportedly first time that the Chinese app has been punished over Europe’s strict data privacy rules.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen threw her full support behind Ukraine joining the EU during her State of the Union speech.

The world needs global digital IDs and Artificial Intelligence should be regulated by the United Nations, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen said.

Europe, the Middle East and India will on Saturday unveil plans to create a modern-day Spice Route, in a challenge to China’s Belt and Road.

Asylum applications to the EU have risen by nearly one-third over 2022 as the bloc expects over a million to apply for asylum this year.

Governments and leaders across the globe are voicing outrage over recent “horrifying” remarks concerning Jews and Adolf Hitler expressed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.