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A report by Europol examining terrorism within the EU in 2021 has found that jihadists remain the single biggest threat to the bloc, despite an increasing political focus on right-wing extremists.

The EU is now in the “contingency planning” stages regarding a potential coming migrant surge, a Commissioner for the bloc has confirmed.

After backlash from politicians and the public, the European Union has abandoned plans to buy an $18 Million New York townhouse for its U.N. Ambassador.

Nine European Union states rejected Israel’s designation of six Palestinian organizations as terror groups, and said they would continue funding and working with them.

A German court has rejected attempts by members of the country’s armed forces to challenge the government’s mandatory Wuhan virus vaccination policy for all troops.

MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) – Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centres are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor.

Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.

Arch-Remainer Michael Heseltine, best known for bringing down Margaret Thatcher, is gloating that “if Boris goes, Brexit goes” now the Prime Minister’s departure has been confirmed. 

“It is unbelievable that a small nation was asked to give up its language, history and constitution-making powers”, the law professor said.

A German MEP has denounced a proposed EU scheme of “taxation without representation” that would leave Germany a “tax colony” of an “EU empire”.

Farmers protesting the EU’s green agenda in the Netherlands have turned down a meeting with their country’s government over poor terms.

A boy protesting the enforcement of the EU’s green agenda in the Netherlands is said to have narrowly avoided being killed after being shot at by police.

Europhile MEPs have put forward a motion pushing for Abortion to be made a “fundamental right” in Europe in the wake of the repeal of Roe v. Wade.

Like muscles on a broken arm, the political class atrophies: after decades of rule from Brussels, it will take years to grow worthy leaders.

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted not to block a proposed rule that would designate gas and nuclear power plants as “climate-friendly.” The rule will take effect unless 20 of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states band together to stop it.

An elected representative within the European parliament has accused the EU of trying to tax its population out of poverty.

Police in The Netherlands fired gunshots at farmers who were protesting the implementation of EU-based climate rules on nitrogen emmissions.

A senior EU commissioner has once again told Germany to delay shutting down its nuclear power stations as the climate-crazy government sees its popularity fade.

Despite calls from inside his party, Labour leader Keir Starmer has promised that his party would not push for Britain to rejoin the EU single market.

The charity which owns it complains it spends so much money on repairs, it can no longer afford to deliver anti-racism and pro-Euro education. 

The EU Commission vowed to create a new emergency plan to reduce or remove Russian energy products, including pushing for more renewables.

Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions protested with tractors, the latest actions in a summer of discontent.

Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.

A potential cutting-off of Russian gas would lead to recession and “chaotic conditions”, various German officials are now warning.

A laboratory manufacturing the illegal narcotic ecstasy (MDMA) was discovered on a Belgian NATO base that houses nuclear weapons, with two people arrested in the case, according to prosecutors.

A populist politician in Ireland has slammed the country’s state exams as containing “pure propaganda” after pupils were presented with documents promoting Black Lives Matter and concepts like “White Privilege” and “Micro-Aggressions”.

Four Swedish political parties have announced their support for a change to the country’s constitution that would guarantee women the right to have abortions. The Liberals, Centre Party, Greens, and the centre-right Moderates have all come out in support of

NICE, France (AP) – Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited” or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive anti-government protests.

While the German government prevaricates around its self-imposed energy crisis, citizens are taking matters into their own hands to keep themselves warm this coming winter with sales of cheap, reliable wood burners soaring in Europe.

Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs.

The EU’s announcement on Wednesday that it will ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars bloc-wide by 2035 has been slammed by a populist MEP, who has argued it will cause “suffering” for “hundreds of thousands”.

Sadiq Khan has called for the United Kingdom to reverse the will of the people and rejoin the European Union’s Single Market.

Britain plans to cut mainland Europe off from its supply of North Sea gas should severe supply shortages emerge due to ongoing hostilities with Russia.

Germany is in danger of seeing its economy lose nearly €200 billion should the Kremlin decide to end its supply of Russian gas.

Boris Johnson´s bid to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal he signed with the EU has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament.

Spain has blamed people-trafficking “mafias” for the deaths of an estimated 23 to 37-plus migrants during an attempt to break through border fences.