Senior MEPs are plotting to change the European Parliament’s rules to starve Eurosceptic parties of European Union (EU) money. Along with changing the rules so that smaller parties will no longer receive cash, they also propose funding only groups which
Marine Le Pen has congratulated Britain, saying that the nation sent out a “signal of liberty and freedom to the rest of the world”, and that “there will be a glowing future for the United Kingdom”. At the European Parliament, leader of the
UKIP Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nigel Farage declared in Brussels today that Article 50 should be invoked as soon as possible, and that Eurocrats were “in denial” over the failings of the European Union (EU) political project. Speaking at the
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has said that: “It’s clear what the British people want and we should act accordingly”, and pushed for Article 50 to be triggered as soon as possible
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s recent address at the European Parliament again proved he was an unsuitable partner for pursuing peace.
BuzzFeed is cancer, but sometimes cancer gets it right. Here’s BuzzFeed UK correspondent James Ball on Nigel Farage, who Ball declares a “winner” of EU Referendum.
Global terrorism will end if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday as he condemned all forms of such violence.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was guilty of spreading “blood libel,” Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Office said in a harsh criticism of Abbas’ speech to the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday, in which he repeated a widely debunked media report that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas refused to meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin while the two are in Brussels it was reported on Thursday.
President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday told members of the European Parliament that international efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement — including the current French initiative — were “negotiations for negotiations’ sake,” and therefore doomed to fail.
Members of the European Parliament spent more than $6.2 million on luxury trips abroad in the first half of 2015 alone, it has been revealed. The taxpayer cash was splurged on five-star hotels and first-class travel to exotic destinations, and
Reports from the last session of the European Parliament before the UK’s referendum on European Union (EU) membership suggest that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) do not know how to react to the unprecedented situation. The June plenary session of the
An Irish member of the European Parliament who is also a former convicted member of the IRA terrorist organization said Israeli lobbyists were “all over this place like a rash” during a discussion supposedly dedicated to health issues and sanitation in Gaza and the West Bank.
The head of the Conservative Party’s delegation in the European Parliament has stormed out of a BBC studio after refusing to debate one of his fellow Conservative MEPs on Brexit. Ashley Fox MEP, who represents the South East and Gibraltar,
A shocking new video which exposes the secretive nature of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the U.S. and European Union (EU). has emerged on YouTube. The video shows a Member of the European Parliament being escorted into a
Two drivers chauffeuring European Parliament bureaucrats around the heart of European Union (EU) were allegedly found with Islamic State propaganda, prompting the parliament to approve a €10 million budget to expand and bring the driver service in house. The drivers were
Members of the European Parliament have awarded themselves an in-house, chauffeur-driven service at a cost to taxpayers of €10 million a year, even though they already have a limo service within both Parliamentary buildings, in Brussels and Strasbourg. The new
The European Parliament votes Thursday on whether airlines can share names of passengers with EU states to help trace returning jihadists, culminating five years of debate that intensified after the Paris and Brussels attacks. One of the two Brussels airport
The European Parliament tomorrow votes on a resolution accusing the Polish government of undermining “constitutional democracy”, calling for further action if they do not implement decisions from Poland’s highest court. The resolution is the latest attack on Poland’s centre-right government for overhauling the Constitutional Tribunal
Wielding coat hangers, a coalition of sixty abortion rights groups organized a rally in Warsaw, Poland, over the weekend to protest a proposed law that would further restrict legal abortions in the country. One of the protesters, Anna Jakobic, said
Irish journalist Hermann Kelly, who is the communications director for the EFDD Euroskeptic group in the European Parliament, spoke with Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM on Tuesday about the morning’s horrific terror attacks in Belgium.
Steven Wolfe, a UKIP member of the European parliament, was an eyewitness to the bombing of the Metro stop in Brussels on Tuesday morning. He called into Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM to discuss the experience with host Stephen K. Bannon, who noted the death toll from that particular bombing was at least ten or eleven people, at the time of the conversation.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have blown more than £17.4 of taxpayers’ money on paying supporters and voters to visit them in Brussels and Strasbourg. In a review of the Parliament’s £1.3 billon-a-year spending, the budgetary review committee said
Members of the European Parliament have struck back against a “totalitarian” edict which seeks to ban the parliamentary televisual services from filming any member staging a protest on political issues of the day. Martin Schulz, the head of the European
Campaigners for the Leave side of the European Union (EU) referendum have criticised the “extraordinarily careless attitude” behind the European Parliament’s support for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia. Yesterday the European Parliament called on the EU to impose an arms embargo
The European Union (EU) has recognized the mass slaughter of Christians at the hands of the barbaric Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as genocide, but the Obama administration has yet to offer the same designation to the religious minority group.
The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may be threatened with expulsion from its European Parliament group after its leader said border guards should be able to use firearms against migrants as a last resort. Frauke Petry, national leader
In the wake of David Cameron’s really rather pathetic little deal – as evidenced by European Council President Donald Tusk’s somewhat derisory letter – the European Union referendum is all over the front pages. I particularly enjoyed the Sun’s front page
A UK Independence Party (UKIP) MEP has told the European Parliament that the atrocities committed by the Islamic State were due to their literalist interpretation of the Quran – and that mass immigration from Muslim countries should cease. His comments come just
BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union is at risk of falling apart and supporters must fight to keep it, the head of the European Parliament said in a German newspaper interview. Martin Schulz (pictured above, centre) told Die Welt’s Tuesday
In a high-level meeting on religious persecution in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament (EP) said that Europe cannot afford to continue ignoring the fate of Christians, who are “clearly the most persecuted group” in the world. In Wednesday’s
This week, members of the UK Labour party voted against “any border controls… aimed at fighting terrorism” in the European Parliament, and in support of the “reintegration… of so-called ‘foreign’ fighters” who have left the Islamic State terror group. Members
In a move greeted by animal rights campaigners, the European Parliament yesterday overwhelmingly voted to prevent European Union (EU) agricultural subsidies being used to support traditional Spanish bullfighting. The EU has never specifically funded bullfighting, but an estimated €130 million a year allocated to
Members of the European Parliament have voted to increase the European Union’s annual budget by an astonishing €4 billion next year, even as member states struggle with the fallout from Brussels-imposed austerity measures. The whopping budget rise is also a
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s most senior representative in the European Parliament, Syed Kamall MEP, has today told the parliamentary chamber in Strasbourg that not only should Middle East countries take more migrants, but so too should the United States
The British taxpayer will be landed with an additional bill for our membership of the European Union (EU) next year, as MEPs voted to increase their budget by billions, defying national governments and their electorates who have voted for fiscal
TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) – European Union lawmakers have backed an EU plan to distribute 120,000 migrants among member countries in a fast-track measure aimed at relieving migration pressure on Greece, Italy and Hungary. The move in the European Parliament on
Britain may have to pay £90m for a scheme to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers around Europe, despite the Prime Minister saying it could encourage more migrants to risk their lives travelling across the continent. Downing Street admitted last night that
The latest users of the infamous adultery website Ashley Madison to have been exposed are European Union bureaucrats. The hack of the website’s membership list reveals 13 officials used work email addresses to register their interest, raising serious international security issues.
Cloaked in secrecy and controversy, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is facing further scrutiny from French Member of European Parliament Jean-Luc Shaffhauser, who claims the deal “is made to diminish the influence of the European Countries”. The massive.
