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BBC anchor Emily Maitlis has not apologised for a rant against Dominic Cummings which the broadcaster admits broke the rules on impartiality.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday outlined her vision for a global European Union, backing it to deliver guidance on handling the Chinese coronavirus pandemic based on what she claimed was the manifest evidence of the organization’s achievements.

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga confronted European Union officials over Hungary’s Wuhan coronavirus response, saying the globalist campaign against the country had no basis.

The European Commission has proposed a massive €750 billion (£673bn/$825bn) Wuhan coronavirus bailout package as many across Europe have begun to question the European Union itself.

Ian Blackford, leader of the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) contingent in the British parliament, made a journey of over 600 miles from London to the Isle of Skye during lockdown.

Douglas Ross, the little-known former government minister who resigned from his junior position over Dominic Cummings’ movements during lockdown, made an even longer cross-country trip to London — because his home Internet was “adequate at best”.

Brussels sources have signalled that the European Union may be planning to back down on their fishing demands following the chief British negotiator saying the UK would not accept the bloc’s “low-quality” trade deal offer.

Boris Johnson’s under-fire chief adviser Dominic Cummings squashed a plan to delay Britain’s true Brexit day which was “all but agreed” while he and the Prime Minister were “laid out on their sickbeds”.

Hungarian-American plutocrat George Soros attacked populist Italian senator Matteo Salvini, claiming the League (Lega) leader wants to get Italy out of the European Union and the euro currency.

Europeans must move to a “more plant-based diet”, according to new EU food policy, which also revealed the bloc will promote “insect-based proteins and meat substitutes”.

What use is sovereign power over immigration when ministers seem intent on keeping immigration high — or making it even higher? 

Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, has claimed that the European Union would be much poorer without mass migration and called for more legal paths for migrants to enter the bloc.

Experts have warned that a ruling by the German constitutional court on the European Central Bank (ECB) could lead to the breakup of the euro currency.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union signaled Wednesday that it will not punish member countries for breaking the bloc´s deficit rules to tackle the coronavirus but that it could condition their access to sorely-needed recovery funds on them following its

The European Union has pledged its support for the World Health Organization (WHO), following President Donald Trump’s threats to permanently defund the United Nations agency over its mishandling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. A spokeswoman for the European Commission, Virginie

In a scathing letter to Brussels bureaucrat Michel Barnier, David Frost criticised the European Union’s offer of a “low-quality trade agreement” which contains provisions that no “democratic country could sign”.

The sale of menthol flavoured cigarettes, menthol rolling tobacco and capsule cigarettes have been banned in the UK under an EU directive.

The president of Albania has decried the “mafia” government of his own country after the state apparently launched a midnight demolition raid against the National Theatre building, police having first rounded up demonstrators.

In the three months leading up to the financial crisis caused by the Chinese coronavirus, the number of foreign-born workers in the United Kingdom reached a record high.

European cities have begun lifting lockdown restrictions for business after months of quarantine, but scenes taking place across the continent depict a “new normal” that would have seemed alien to people in pre-coronavirus Europe.

The European Union’s post-Brexit trade negotiators are reportedly planning to back down on its demands for continued access to Britain’s fishing waters. Meanwhile, the British government has returned civil servants to the front line of planning for a ‘no deal’.

The European Union police agency Europol has warned that people-smuggling activities have surged as member-states soften lockdown measures to contain the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Talks between the European Union and the United Kingdom on their post-Brexit relationship ground to a near-standstill Friday, with each side accusing the other of blocking progress on a trade deal just weeks before a crucial summit.

Germany’s Bundestag has approved a prison sentence of up to three years for damaging or destroying an EU flag, in an effort to curb “hate”. 

Hungary’s anti-mass migration, national conservative government may be among the first to hand back its emergency coronavirus powers, despite claims its premier planned to rule “indefinitely” over the EU’s first “dictatorship”.  

Germany is in recession, its economy having contracted by over two per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic following years of flatlining performance. 

The European Union is threatening legal action against the United Kingdom for alleged failings in its obedience to Free Movement migration rules, despite the country’s supposed break with the EU in January. 

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.

Germany is recommending that a requirement for people arriving from other countries in Europe to self-quarantine for 14 days be dropped.

The world´s biggest shipping company said it expects its transport volumes to drop by up to 25% as the world economy slides to recession,

Nearly two-thirds of Italians fear the country could see riots in the wake of coronavirus, while trust in politicians hits single-digit lows.

The European Commission is set to present a plan in Brussels on removing border controls within the visa-free Schengen zone.

The progressive leader of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has called on Europeans to fight against the twin enemies of coronavirus and nationalism in order to preserve the European Union.

The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that EU law has “primacy over national law” following a ruling from a German court that the European Central Bank’s bailout scheme was unconstitutional. President of the European Commission

Malta’s ambassador to Finland has had to resign his post after saying that Germany’s Angela Merkel had  “fulfilled Hitler’s dream” to “control Europe” on social media.

London’s Metropolitan Police have finally dropped their investigations into working-class Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes and Vote Leave’s Alan Halsall, in another defeat for the supposedly neutral Electoral Commission.