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EU border agency sending officers and equipment to Finland to help amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants.

The European Commission has asserted there is no evidence of EU aid to Palestine being diverted to “unintended purposes”.

Geert Wilders hailed a poll that put his anti-mass migration party tied for first place in next week’s general election as a “game changer”.

Viktor Orbán said Ukraine is “light years away” from joining the EU, signalling Hungary may seek to block the ascension process.

Two men of “Arab appearance” are wanted by police in Germany after a mother was reportedly raped in a schoolyard.

Croatia’s defense minister was seriously injured in a car crash early on Saturday in which another person died, officials said.

“Ukraine is in no way ready to negotiate on its ambitions to join the European Union,” Orbán said.

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said Tuesday he is resigning after being involved in a widespread corruption probe.

NATO on Tuesday announced the formal suspension of a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s pullout from the deal just hours earlier

New, stricter measures to curb the high number of migrants coming to Germany were agreed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the 16 state governors.

Poland’s president gave Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a chance to form a government, despite his party losing its parliamentary majority.

Spain’s Canary Islands set a new record for the number of illegal arrivals, with more than 32,000 boat migrants landing this year.

Ursula von der Leyen continued to lobby for the cause of Ukraine joining the EU as she met with with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

Automotive industry analyst Michael Dunne warned on Friday that China has become “the world’s electric vehicle (EV) Godzilla, poised to smash everything in its path.”

Serbian police said Friday they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown.

UK and Austria signed security agreement taking in migration, terrorism, and cyber and are set to enter further talks on deportations. 

A group of northern Euro nations has agreed to work together, saying they will share deportation flights and organise voluntary repatriations.

Former defense minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen had alleged that Danish spies helped the NSA eavesdrop on European leaders.

As the war rages in Ukraine, EU officials have sought to push the integration process forward and encourage Balkan nations to boost reforms.

The people of Germany need to become prepared to fight a war in Europe, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has warned.

A fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants became grounded, killing five people and leaving about 20 missing off the coast of Sicily.

President Emmanuel Macron said that legislation will be put forward to ensure the “freedom” to have an abortion in the French Constitution.

Police in North Macedonia said they found 77 migrants in the country’s south and arrested seven Pakistanis suspected of human trafficking

Hundreds of Serbian officers were dispatched to a border area with Hungary after a shooting between migrants that killed three people.

Two cabinet members in the German government have called for asylum seeker benefits to be cut amid efforts to stem illegal migration.

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “humanitarian truce” in the Hamas-Israel conflict to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Three people were killed and one more injured during a raging hours-long battle between migrant smuggling gangs at the Serbia-Hungary border.

European Union (E.U.) leaders struck a despairing tone in Brussels on Friday as they called for the world’s community to focus on helping Ukraine against Russia’s invasion as Middle East turmoil steals away the global spotlight.

Soldiers from across Europe dived inside a cavernous flooded stone quarry deep beneath the Hungarian capital.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz admitted “too many people are coming” into the country illegally and vowed deportations on a “large scale”.

Security tensions running high ahead of a European Union summit in Brussels, with police arresting a man over unspecified threats.

A group of three Polish left-wing opposition parties have backed former Eurocrat and Brexit villain Donald Tusk to become Prime Minister.

The government of Spain announced on Monday that it is planning to urge the European Union to lift sanctions on socialist Venezuela during the next E.U. ministerial meeting, a response to leftist American President Joe Biden doing the same.

Police in Cyprus said Tuesday they had arrested 10 Syrian men in an operation that has dismantled a people smuggling ring bringing migrants.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti claimed that a gang tied to the government of Serbia was behind a deadly shootout on the border last month.

Slovenia said it will introduce border checks with Hungary and Croatia after Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia over terror concerns.