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Pope Francis said Monday that the European Union’s recent attempt to cancel Christmas is an “anachronism” more worthy of a Napoleon or a Hitler than modern Europe.

Scholz announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution on coronavirus will be Germany’s new health minister.

UFC legend Conor McGregor has branded “forced” vaccination a “war crime” and slammed the EU and its “lapdogs” in the Irish government.

Macron wants representation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan but insists this move won’t legitimise the Kabul regime.

Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi revealed that his country has seen a six-fold increase in migrant landings since 2019, and called for help from the European Union in dealing with the ongoing crisis.

Markus Lohi, chairman of the Finnish parliament’s Social Affairs and Health Committee, has said he will not support a European Union-wide vaccine mandate.

(AFP) — Only a few times a year Ninos Josephides, a Greek Cypriot, is allowed to visit his home village in the Turkish-occupied part of divided Cyprus. But he can’t visit his house. It was destroyed long ago.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The leaders of right-wing populist parties gathered Saturday in Warsaw to discuss how they can work together to bring change to the European Union, which they accuse of acting like a super-state that is eroding the traditions and powers of the EU’s 27 member nations.

An 18-year-old illegal migrant in the French city of Lille has appeared in court after being accused of luring police officers into a violent ambush.

The Prime Minister of France has rejected proposals from Boris Johnson which he hoped might end the ongoing channel migrant crisis.

Sweden’s new Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter says she wants to investigate the links between gangster rap music and gang crime to see if the music leads to gang activity.

Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion and all-around sporting superstar Conor McGregor may have just become Ireland’s biggest advocate for ‘Irexit’ — an Irish exit from the European Union.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has exclaimed “thank goodness we left” the EU in response to reports that the head of the bloc, European Commission Ursula von der Leyen saying mandatory vaccination should be considered, while countries like Greece are threatening to fine senior citizens for every month they go unvaccinated.

Stolen yachts, including some with U.S. registrations, are being used by people smugglers to sneak migrants into Italy.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Friday that more than 1 per cent of the population – almost a million people – are currently infected with the coronavirus, and called on citizens to get vaccinated if they haven’t done so yet.

The European Union will launch a €300 billion global infrastructure project in an apparent attempt to counter Communist China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the race for global influence. The Global Gateway scheme, which aims at investing €300 (£255bn/$340) billion into

Anti-Brexit Lib Dems crashed to fifth place and upstart Rejoin EU scraped together just 151 votes in Thursday’s special election.

Italian police have claimed that the number of fake coronavirus vaccine passports being sold online has surged and that some doctors may even be involved in the sale of fake certifications.

Police have expelled a group of 400 migrants from a makeshift camp near the northern French city of Dunkirk, just two weeks after police cleared another site in the area.

Chinese state media and the Chinese Tennis Association (CTA) responded with outrage on Thursday to the international Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) suspending all tournaments in China over the mistreatment of Peng Shuai, the tennis star who accused former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexually assaulting her a decade ago.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Belgian government has vowed to reinforce measures to contain the coronavirus even more with fresh measures to be decided Friday, possibly including more school closures and further reducing opening times of bars and restaurants.

The Biden administration is imposing sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus for allowing illegal migrants to flood its borders and into the European Union even as America’s porous southern border leaks upwards of a million illegal migrants into U.S. territory.

The Greek government will fine all unvaccinated people aged 60 and older €100 (£85/$113) every month before mandatory vaccination is enforced next month. 

Angela Merkel has announced a de facto lockdown of the unvaccinated, and that Germany’s parliament will soon vote on making vaccination mandatory.

Inflation within the Eurozone hit nearly 5 per cent in November, the highest level recorded since the Euro was introduced in 1999.

A poll on Austria’s proposed forced mandatory vaccination mandate has revealed that 55 per cent of the public in the country are in favour of the policy.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has denounced a European Union communication manual barring the use of “Merry Christmas” in favor of “Happy Holidays,” Vatican News reported this week.

The EU will grant detention and deportation powers to Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia to fend off the migrant crisis with Belarus.

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has called for discussions regarding the implementation of forced vaccination throughout the entire EU, in a move that has been described as the “Chinafication of Europe”.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has complained that the European Union is seeking to punish member-states which protect their borders, while funding pro-migration organisations linked to George Soros.

Alexander Lukashenko accused Lithuania of tossing the bodies of dead migrants across the border between the two countries.

Incoming German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he will push for a vaccine mandate and blamed the unvaccinated for the surge in cases.

An internal European Commission communications document has advised bureaucrats to avoid terms like “Christmas time” to be more inclusive.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Tuesday that it wants China to release “verifiable proof” that tennis player Peng Shuai is safe and to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into her sexual assault allegations.

AMSTERDAM (AP) – The Netherlands moved into a tougher lockdown Sunday that was announced amid spiking infections even before the country recorded its first confirmed cases of the new, more highly transmissible omicron virus variant.

CALAIS, France (AP) – The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant activity after 27 people died when their overcrowded, inflatable boat sank en route to Britain, the deadliest migration