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“Our first and most urgent priority is to speed up global vaccination,” von der Leyen told European parliamentarians.

A survey pitting outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel against current French President Emmanuel Macron for the head of the European Commission has revealed that many EU countries would support a Merkel presidency.

The failure of the EU to enact an effective deportation system has led to increased illegal immigration, the European Court of Auditors said.

The European Union’s radical green agenda risks sparking widespread political unrest as energy prices soar throughout the bloc.

A leading MEP has called for Brussels to speed up in efforts to craft a fully-fledged EU Army in order to rely less on the United States.

An Afghan arrested in Sadiq Khan’s London after allegedly raping and murdering a child in Austria entered the country after crossing the Channel on a migrant boat, according to reports.

A six-year-old child was slashed in the throat by a Somali asylum seeker in Rimini, Italy, with four other women being stabbed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a renewed push for the massive EU-China trade deal in a phone call with Xi Jinping.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

A local who works in the Stockholm no-go suburb of Tensta has said the area has begun to resemble the “Wild West” due to the continued number of shootings taking place.

The European Union border agency Frontex is preparing for a surge of Afghan asylum seekers to make their way to Europe.

The EU’s former hardline Brexit negotiator, who criticised his British counterparts for “cherry-picking” during negotiations, has appeared to have embraced Euroscepticism, demanding the return of France’s sovereignty from the European courts to control immigration.

The government of Sweden announced all remaining coronavirus restrictions will be lifted this month, following a similar plan from Denmark.

ROME (AP) – The Italian Coast Guard rescued 125 migrants who were spotted huddling together on the rocky shore of a tiny uninhabited isle at dawn Thursday, after one of their two boats partially sunk near Lampedusa island.

Boris Johnson’s government is finally considering turning back the illegal migrant-laden boats which have been launching from France in record numbers.

LONDON (AP) – The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party heightened post-Brexit political tensions on Thursday, saying the UK’s divorce deal with the European Union could collapse the Belfast government and trigger a new era of violence and instability.

EU President Charles Michel said Brussels will seek to increase “strategic autonomy” in the wake of Joe Biden’s botched Afghan withdrawal.

The Biden administration and European leaders reacted with “concern” to Tuesday’s announcement of a Taliban government filled with mullahs and terrorists, but none of them seemed to rule out working with – or perhaps even formally recognizing – a regime whose interior minister is wanted by the FBI.

Five German retailers have been accused of profiting off slave labour in the concentration camp region of Xinjiang by the ECCHR on Monday. 

The lone survivor of the extremist cell that night is the key defendant of those being tried for the deadliest attack in since World War II.

Tory MP David Davis called for the “unnecessary emergency powers” given to the government under the Coronavirus Act to be removed.

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has called on the European Union to develop an economic aid plan to funnel cash to Africa in the hopes of mitigating illegal migration.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has warned that the EU developing a rapid reaction force could weaken the defence union’s ability to work together and could “divide Europe”.

One of the chief architects of the Good Friday peace deal between British unionists and Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland has written to U.S. President Biden warning him that his interference in the Province’s internal politics risks “causing civil unrest”.

BERLIN (AP) – A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

Britain’s Minister for EU Relations has admitted Boris Johnson’s government is happy to let European Union law continue to apply in Northern Ireland for some purposes and keep an internal border between the British province and the rest of the United Kingdom for the EU’s sake.

A 31-year-old French-born convert to Islam has been sentenced to six months in prison for glorifying terrorism after she made comments supporting the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by a radical Islamic extremist.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has suggested that Joe Biden’s relationship with Europe has “turned sour”, indicating that the American Democrat is losing the devotion of the international media as well as world leaders post-Afghanistan.

The EU is set to establish a diplomatic presence in Kabul amid concerns over the influence of Communist China and Russia in Afghanistan.

Viktor Orbán said that Hungary will focus on Christian family values instead of relying on mass migration to deal with demographics. 

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday insisted the United States should accept more refugees from Afghanistan, while calling it a “fantasy” for the civilized world to expect China to welcome any refugees itself.

Ministers from across the European Union (EU) have presented a plan to support countries neighbouring Afghanistan to host those fleeing the Taliban, in order to stop a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.

Consumer prices spiked higher than expected in Europe in August, boosted in large part by more expensive fuel.

An EU President said the bloc has reached its goal of getting 70% of adults fully vaccinated against coronavirus by the end of the summer.

European Union member-states are gearing up to counter a possible migrant crisis from Afghanistan, according to a draft statement that is set to be officially released on Tuesday.

The European Union plans to recommend that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infection levels there, EU diplomats said Monday.