Amid escalating concerns over Italy’s burgeoning debt, discussions surrounding the potential introduction of an “alternative currency” have resurfaced, gaining momentum within the corridors of power after the European Union (EU) issued a stern warning regarding the country’s escalating fiscal liabilities. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s Lega party, a key player... 

As Europeans prepare to vote in the EU Parliament elections, the European Commission has raised some eyebrows with a tweet extolling the virtues of the union, in true George Orwell style. “The EU is peace. The EU is freedom. The EU is solidarity. The EU is diversity. The EU is human rights. The EU is opportunities,” read the Commission’s tweet, posted on Saturday. The message ended with a simple... 

The EU will ensure that eurosceptic candidates are obstructed from securing top jobs in Brussels no matter that outcome of the European elections in May, Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission, has boasted. In an interview with Polish media Juncker shot down the notion that the increased support at the ballot box for national populist parties predicted in May would – in any... 

The European Parliament has voted to adopt the highly controversial Article 13 provision which would govern the production and distribution of content online under the auspices of increasing copyright protections. Tuesday’s move will update the EU’s 20-year-old copyright rules and will govern audiovisual content, much to the dismay of many social media users who have already begun outpouring... 

The EU’s commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, said Wednesday that Google must pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.69 billion) for stifling competition in the online advertisement sector. In a statement Wednesday the European Commission said Google had placed exclusivity contracts on publishers, stopping them from including search results from Google’s rivals. It said these clauses were replaced... 

At least 58,600 nonwhite invaders pretending to be refugees landed in Europe during January 2019, a 21 percent increase over the previous month, making a mockery of recent claims by Frans Timmermans, the European commission’s first vice-president, that the “crisis” was over. According to the latest nonwhite invasion figures provided by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), “in the first... 

The 26 European countries that make up the Schengen Area allow visa free travel within. Citizens of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Poland and Romania are required to have a visa to travel to the US, an issue disputed by the EU since at least 2016 American travelers will have a new requirement to consider before taking a trip to Europe in 2021. US citizens will have to get a new type of visa through the... 

According to the Hungarian government’s response to the European Commission, Brussels intends to legalise and boost immigration. The document released on Sunday is a detailed response to the commission’s Feb. 28 statement criticising Hungary’s communications regarding European Union policy on migration. The eight-page rebuttal presents the EU plans and decisions that the government says would... 

George Soros “is again seeking to influence the European Parliamentary elections”, the communications director of ruling party Fidesz told Hungarian public media on Tuesday, adding that the US financier was backing “pro-migration forces”. Balazs Hidveghi spoke in reaction to a meeting between Soros and Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the European Commission, and said that the talks reflected... 

Hungarian officials want an explanation from the European Commission regarding a scheme to provide prepaid bank cards to thousands of migrants currently pushing their way into Europe. Infowars Europe was one of the first English-language media outlets to report revelations emerging from the Balkans, where shopkeepers and law enforcement officers claimed that migrants amassing in Bosnia were using... 

The EU commissioner is still employing bullying over Italy’s budget, insisting that Italy has “no future” outside of the Eurozone. The European Commission disagrees with Italy’s spending plans for the coming years and has asked Rome to submit a new draft budget by 13 November. So far, government ministers have refused, saying they will not change their economic plans. The EU’s Economics... 

Without its nations, Europe would lose its spiritual and cultural identity, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, addressing a European People’s Party (EPP) congress in Helsinki on Thursday. “Europe will either be a Europe of nations or it will cease to exist,” Orban told the congress ahead of a vote on the lead candidate for the post of European Commission president. The “accession of central... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reviled as an enemy of the West in general, and of the EU in particular, and yet Hungarian Prime Minister Orban continues to conduct “business as usual” with the master of the Kremlin. The “salon des refusés” of political dissidents in the EU is getting bigger by the day. Less than a week after his government was condemned in a vote in the European parliament,... 

Earlier, Hungary’s government warned of the possible consequences of immigration to Europe and continues to oppose Brussels’ migrant policy. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke on the radio about the fact that a new European Commission is needed that will develop a new migration policy. “We need a new Commission… with a new approach,” Orban told state radio. Viktor... 

A European Commission poll has found that a strong majority of people in France, Germany, and Sweden believe the integration of migrants has failed in their country. People in all 28 member states were asked: “Generally speaking, how successful or not is the integration of most immigrants living in [your country].” Overall, across the open borders bloc, 55 per cent of people said integration it...