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The European bishops have reacted strongly to an attempt to have abortion recognized as a “human right,” insisting that the “unborn child has a human right to life.”

Italian populist Senator Matteo Salvini has hit back against criticism from Italian leftists over his recent meeting with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Italian populist Senator Matteo Salvini and the conservative Central European premiers Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, of Hungary and Poland, will meet to discuss a conservative alliance within the European Union.

Simona Baldassarre, a Member of the European Parliament for Matteo Salvini’s League, has denounced a new glossary from the European Union that allegedly directs members to stop saying terms like “mother” and “father”.

Polish MEP Ryszard Legutko, of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, said the EU Parliament voting to make the bloc an “LGBTIQ freedom zone” was “absurd.”

ROME — The European Parliament (EP) has attacked Poland over its “Regional Charters of Family Rights,” asserting that they represent “discrimination and attacks against the LGBTIQ community.”

Fidesz, the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has left the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament after the group voted to allow members to strip the privileges of other members in a 2/3 vote.

A number of European Parliamentarians criticized Poland during a debate Tuesday for its recently enacted ban on eugenic abortions of children with disabilities.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that with the inauguration of Joe Biden, Europe once again has “a friend in the White House”. Speaking before the European Parliament on Wednesday morning, the EU Commission boss hailed the prospect

Leading European Union parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt says Britons backed Brexit to demonstrate their right to be stupid, and that the country’s youth will take it back into the EU.

Finnish politician Laura Huhtasaari told the European Parliament she envies Britain, and that the EU should “look in the mirror” to discover why it wants to leave and countries like Norway and Switzerland have no interest in joining.

Swedish Centre Party Member of the European Parliament Fredrick Federley announced he would be taking a break from politics after his now-former partner was convicted of a slew of child sex abuse charges.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has threatened to veto the European Union’s budget as well as the massive Chinese coronavirus relief package, in response to the bloc’s attempts to tie funds to what they term the “rule-of-law”.

Hungary has vowed to ‘protect citizens’ interests’ after an EU court ruled against restrictions on foreign-funded universities.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen rebuffed populist critics in the European Parliament on mass migration, claiming they “preach hatred”.

Germany has reportedly warned the European Union to prepare for the UK to leave the bloc’s institutions without a trade deal. 

The Hungarian Justice Minister chastised the European Parliament (EP) in a stinging address Wednesday, insisting that it has been “part of the problem” rather than a solution during the coronavirus pandemic.

Thirteen centre-right parties have signed a letter demanding that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party be removed from the European People’s Party (EPP), the largest bloc in the European Parliament.

The European Parliament’s largest party grouping is pressuring the UK to extend the Brexit transition period because of the coronavirus pandemic. The UK left the EU on January 31st, 2020, but remains in a transition period until December 31st, 2020.

The leader of a left-liberal group in the European Parliament has complained that President Donald J. Trump is treating mainland Europe as a “scapegoat” in the U.S.’s travel ban.

MEPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of making the United Kingdom obey by European Union regulations when the transition period ends in December 2020 as the cost of Brussels agreeing on a free trade agreement with London.

Brexit Party MEPs have left the European Union’s parliament for the last time, carrying the Union Jack “home”.

A Finnish Eurosceptic MEP has said that the UK will “triumph” outside of the EU and said the next decade will see the revival of national sovereignty in Europe.

A democratic-socialist MEP from Germany opined that Britain will not be the last member state to leave the European Union.

Europarl has rubber-stamped the withdrawal agreement agreed between Brussels and London, a largely symbolic move before Brexit on Friday.

Britons were wrong to fear the EU was depriving their nation of sovereignty by centralising power in Brussels, Guy Verhofstadt said Wednesday.

Farage made his final speech to the EP where he expressed Brexit as a victory in a “historic battle across the west” against Globalism.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has called Brexit a “victory for grassroots campaigning” and British democracy, adding that he hoped other European nations would take Britain’s lead and leave the undemocratic EU.

Brexit Party MEP Anne Widdecombe has warned Eurocrats to “learn the lessons” from Brexit and scale back on federalism, or else the European Union will not survive.

Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage will refuse any severance pay from the European Union for his twenty-year tenure representing the United Kingdom in the European Parliament.

STRASBOURG, France (AP) – Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont arrived for his first session as a member of the European Parliament on Monday despite facing an arrest warrant against him in Spain.

(AFP) — Beijing on Friday accused the European Parliament of hypocrisy, after a resolution called for targeted sanctions against Chinese officials over the treatment of the Uighur minority.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has taken a victory lap in the European Parliament by telling European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen the UK is “leaving this prison on nations”.

Populist Italian Senator Matteo Salvini’s Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament are set to gain MEPs as a result of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.

Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox has told the European Union its “obsession” with hate speech has led to it “leading the way” on censorship and empowering the transgender lobby to deplatform lesbians and feminists who criticise its agenda.

The European Parliament on Thursday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, currently serving a life sentence in China on charges of promoting “separatism” in the northern region of Xinjiang.