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Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.

As Brexit foreshadowed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, the defeat of Kamala Harris and the Democrats this year was preceded by the fall of globalists in Europe, leaving limited options for any real challenge to Trump’s authority from across the Atlantic.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán highlighted “irreconcilable differences” with the European Union Sunday, especially on questions of immigration and gender theory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to Moscow by an EU leader since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The leader of the Italian government coalition League party and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has been acquitted after facing six years in prison for blocking an illegal migrant boat from disembarking in 2019. 

Hungary is “confident” that President Donald Trump’s return to office will mend the strained U.S.-Hungary relations under the Biden administration, particularly on economic and strategic issues.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned the leftist Labour Party government against backtracking on Brexit as Brussels has begun to pressure London to caving on fishing rights, migration, and national sovereignty as Prime Minister Starmer seeks a new trade deal with the bloc.

The “potential is there” for pro-nation state movements to dethrone the globalist order in Europe, however, it will be critical for them to learn lessons from Donald Trump on ground game politics, Dr Sebastian Gorka told Breitbart News this week.

Governments across Europe are stopping Syrian refugee applications, but whether a fresh migrant wave or repatriation now follows is unclear. 

Oil delivery to the Czech Republic from Russia through the Druhzba pipeline has resumed, the pipeline operator said.

Britain’s left-wing PM says he wants it both ways on Europe and the U.S. as he sets a course back towards the orbit of Brussels.

Belgian authorities said Wednesday they have opened a fraud investigation into the former European Union justice chief, just days after his mandate ended.

Man identified as British citizen arrested in Georgia, allegedly after breaking into the nation’s parliament.

Violence erupted in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Sunday, the fourth day of massive protests that began after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze suspended talks to join the European Union (EU).

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.

Australian politicians describe their ban on children under 16 using social media as “world-leading,” but in truth, the rest of the world is not far behind them. An international consensus against permitting children on social media gained momentum in 2024, despite deep reservations from Internet freedom advocates.

Europeans must be ready to sacrifice some “luxuries” to pay to support Ukraine and to prevent a “wartime scenario”, top NATO officer says.

The UK and the European Union need to abandon their failed leftist-globalist agendas and adopt the economic policies of Donald Trump, former British Prime Minister Liz Truss said.

Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Iran on Thursday that the “margins for maneuver are beginning to shrink” for a “diplomatic solution” to the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, whose country is hosting the COP29 climate summit this week, lashed out at Western media and climate activists on Tuesday for criticizing his country’s oil and gas industries.

China announces “temporary anti-dumping measures” deepening a trade standoff between Beijing and Brussels after similar measures last month.

German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said that Europe must enact strict speech regulations on Elon Musk’s X platform to fight so-called “disinformation”.

In preparation for President-Elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested that the bloc will look to replace Russian liquid natural gas (LNG) imports with supplies from the United States.

One person died and 13 people were wounded by a Russian drone in a residential area in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, local officials said Saturday, as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived in Kyiv to discuss European support for Ukraine.

China’s markets tumbled on Friday, dismayed by a disappointing stimulus package from Beijing and fear that President-elect Donald Trump will restore high tariffs on Chinese exports.

In 2016 European leaders felt free to insult Trump, but caution now seems to rule where a second Presidency looks eminently possible.

Moldova´s pro-Western President Maia Sandu has won a second term in a pivotal presidential runoff against a Russia-friendly opponent.

A report commissioned for EU chief Ursula von der Leyen argued that the European Union should institute a bloc-wide international intelligence service to coordinate the espionage efforts of the 27 member states.

A group of about two hundred North Korean defectors is asking to be deployed in Ukraine so they can help with demoralizing and influencing the roughly 12,000 North Korean troops allegedly dispatched to fight for Russia, a report revealed on Monday.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday denounced Russia’s hybrid attacks against democracies.

Victory plan openly criticised by a NATO leader for first time, with Ukraine joining alliance rejected out-of-hand by Chancellor Scholz.

The European Union (E.U.) is ready to demand unfettered fishing rights in UK waters and may target energy supplies as leverage to get what it wants, a report Friday sets out.

The Council of Ministers of Giorgia Meloni’s government in Italy approved a decree law on Monday evening officially declaring 19 nations as “safe” for returning illegal migrants, as a full-on constitutional battle has broken out over the Albania scheme.

Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former political ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who became the authoritarian leader’s nemesis, died in a U.S. hospital from an unspecified ailment on Sunday at the age of 83. 

Moldovans vote by razor-thin majority in favor of securing the country´s path toward European Union membership, electoral data showed Monday.

The “first steps” towards the UK being drawn into a major defence pact with the European Union will be signed this week, a report claims.