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The European Parliament is to create a “private army” to protect its president and MEPs as part of an almost two-billion euro spending spree. Britain, despite its vote to Leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, will help foot the bill.

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Polish European Parliament lawmaker may face punishment after telling the legislature that women should earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and “less intelligent.”

Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has said “left-wing and liberal politicians” in the European Union (EU) are attacking his country because they cannot accept its refusal to permit illegal immigrants to violate its borders en masse.

European officials are mounting an unprecedented campaign to block President Trump’s putative nomination of Ted Malloch as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (EU).

Opinion polls indicate that Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament who has been selected as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for the German chancellorship, may be set to end Angela Merkel’s almost twelve-year reign. Opinion polls

The President of the European Parliament (EP) called for massive investments in Africa on Tuesday, warning that millions of African migrants could arrive otherwise.

Nigel Farage has slammed European Union (EU) institutions for continuing to foster large scale immigration from Muslim countries in opposition to the wishes of the people of Europe.

PARIS, France — The founder of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has been charged with inciting hatred for alleged anti-Semitic remarks in 2014, his lawyer said Saturday.

The European Left’s leading MEPs have written to the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, demanding that they block the appointment of Professor Ted Malloch as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union (EU).

The president of the European Council has listed “demagogues” like U.S. President Donald J. Trump as an “existential threat” to the bloc alongside “terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a major role”.

Guy Verhofstadt, the former prime minister of Belgium chosen to represent the European Parliament in Brexit negotiations, has told Al Jazeera that “a Little Englander mindset” could be “a good explanation” for Britain’s vote to Leave the European Union (EU) last

A leading Swedish politician has called on the European Union (EU) to withhold funds from member-states resisting mass immigration in an interview with EUobserver.

Italian politician Antonio Tajani has been named as the next President of the European Parliament at the end of a long day of horse-trading in Strasbourg which took in four rounds of voting. Mr. Tajani will now serve a two-and-a-half-year-term, presiding

Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) will remain allied to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) within the European Parliament, Nigel Farage has confirmed.

The liberal group in the European Parliament on Monday rejected a controversial application by Italy’s biggest opposition party, the populist Five Star Movement, to join forces.

Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) has voted to break ties with UKIP in the European Parliament. Members of the populist group backed founder Beppe Grillo’s call to ditch the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group and instead join

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s maverick 5-Star Movement should cut ties with the anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP) and consider hooking up with the Liberals in the European Parliament, 5-Star founder Beppe Grillo said on Sunday. If the surprise switch

Labour has been accused of a “sneaky” plot to reverse Brexit after the party’s deputy leader in Brussels was caught massively watering down key lines in amendments to official reports preparing for Britain to leave the European Union (EU). Changes

(AFP) – European Parliament head Martin Schulz demanded Wednesday that the role laid out for MEPs in the Brexit negotiations be beefed up, threatening otherwise to reject any resulting deal. In a letter to EU President Donald Tusk, Schulz criticised

A bitter row has erupted between eurocrats as they battle influence over the Brexit negotiations, with Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chief Brexit negotiator, threatening to start separate talks.

The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) nominated Italian Antonio Tajani as its candidate for head of the European Parliament to succeed German Socialist Martin Schulz, who has said he will step down in January.

The European Union is fast-tracking plans that will see British citizens offered the option to remain as EU citizens even after Britain leaves the Union, the European Parliament’s chief negotiator has confirmed. The deal would effectively give the British people

MEPs have approved a more than €2 billion increase in the EU budget for next year, handing EU officials a three per cent pay rise and raising its contributions to Palestinian causes by 10 per cent.

The day after the European Union (EU) Parliament’s non-binding vote to freeze Turkey’s accession to the bloc, the nation’s Islamist president has threatened to flood the continent with migrants.

The European Parliament on Thursday voted in favour of a freeze of membership talks with Turkey over its post-coup crackdown, further escalating tensions with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The German speaker of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, will not seek a third term in an election in January, parliamentary sources said on Thursday and one said he would return to national politics.

The European Union’s (EU) chief Brexit negotiator has attacked Breitbart for expanding into Europe, after calling Nigel Farage and Donald Trump “clown[s]” who work with a “ring of autocrats” including Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Islamist leader.

The European Parliament will not accept an agreement for Britain’s exit from the European Union that would endanger any of the four EU freedoms, including the freedom of movement of people, parliament’s negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said on Tuesday.

UKIP have accused the European Parliament of “pure victimisation” after a report accusing the party of misspending funds was leaked to the press before they had even had a chance to read it. The party accused the parliament of moving

Activists and supporters of Poland’s libertarian Freedom party marched on Saturday under the slogan “Wake up Europe”, warning that it’s the last chance to save the continent from “Islamic invasion”.

The European Union is facing existential threat, thanks to the “forces of populism”, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said in his State of the Union address. But he said the threat could be overcome by doubling down on the European

(AFP) – Moves to let European Parliament head Martin Schulz extend his tenure are sparking fresh infighting in the crisis-hit EU, with his opponents warning it would be akin to a declaration of war. The bearded 60-year-old German former bookshop

Leaks from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) have revealed the group has a list of MEPs it considers “reliable allies” which includes IRA bomber Martina Anderson. Documents show the NGO, which works worldwide to mould government policies, set

Having spent $6 million influencing the 2014 European Parliament elections, leaked documents show the Open Society Foundations (OSF) hoped the campaign would centre on condemnation of “xenophobic discourse”. Seeking to influence the elections, the OSF planned to “mitigate the feared populist surge”

Leaked documents from the Open Society Foundations show the group to have actively trained socialist MEPs to combat populist parties and shut down free speech. A series of documents leaked from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations have revealed a number

TEL AVIV – The first ever caucus group at the European Parliament in support of West Bank settlements will be formed this fall, The Jerusalem Post reported.