Refugees at a camp in Bulgaria Bulgaria has deported nearly 100 immigrants at its border with Turkey as the poorest country of the European Union grapples with a sharp rise in the number of refugees from non-EU states. Speaking on Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday, the secretary general of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry Svetlozar Lazarov said the group of immigrants was stopped in the Strandzha mountains,... 

The European Union is considering a possible imposition of sanctions on the United States as a response to Washington’s massive spying activities on its closest European allies. German officials said Monday that the EU is considering suspending a data-sharing agreement between the EU and the US. The agreement allows the United States access to funds transferred through the private, Belgium-based... 

Controlling social behavior: Proposal could ban criticism of Islam, feminism! A frightening proposal currently being considered by the European Parliament would direct governments to monitor citizens deemed “intolerant” and could even lead to a ban on all criticism of Islam and feminism. The European Framework National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance (PDF), which was drafted by the European... 

Like the curious incident of the dog that didn’t bark in the nighttime in the classic Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze, the most revealing thing about the latest NSA spying revelations which made world headlines last week was the non-barking of the UK. While leading politicians of other European countries and officers of the EU itself were keen to express their concern over the latest revelations... 

A stunning Ministry of Finance (MoF) report released today on the global impact of the recently implemented Affordable Care Act (ACA) [otherwise known as Obamacare] in the United States is warning that this new law is now in a “death spiral” which could, by February 2014, collapse the entire world’s economic system as the US Federal Reserve would not be able to bail out its European Union (EU)... 

Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski believes that the Cold War is ongoing between Russia and the EU that can take a long time. Both European officials and the Russian leadership have already stated that economic integration with the EU and membership in the Customs Union are incompatible. Ukraine and Moldova have about one month left for consideration. Armenia has already “surrendered,” according... 

The Lithuanian Foreign Minister says his country could block land transport to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad if Russia maintains its opposition to stronger trade ties between Ukraine and the European Union. “As you know, the Kaliningrad region is isolated, geographically isolated, so we could apply some measures also to cut something,” the Reuters news agency quoted Linas Linkevicius... 

At least 92 people died in an incident where a boat carrying some 500 illegal immigrants caught fire and capsized near an Italian island in what seems like a never ending flood of illegal immigrants who desperately want to move to the EU. Emergency workers found 92 bodies, including those of two children and several women, after the deadly boat incident on Thursday, Italy’s news agency ANSA cited... 

France has come under fire from the European Commission after Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Roma migrants “are due to return to their motherlands” because of their lifestyle, which is “in confrontation” with the French way of living. “They should return to Romania or Bulgaria and for that the European Union, with the Bulgarian and Romanian authorities, must ensure these populations... 

As EU countries battle the financial crisis with austerity, average citizens get hurt while unemployment rises and social programs disappear. Up to 146 million Europeans are at risk of falling into poverty by 2025, the head of Oxfam’s EU office told RT. If the damage being inflicted by the European Union’s austerity measures is not reversed, the number of people trapped in poverty will increase... 

The bailout would save Cyprus from bankruptcy and possibly guarantee its future in the eurozone. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to grant 84.7 million euros (USD 113.1 million) in financial aid to Cyprus, as part of a 10-billion-euro bailout program to the debt-stricken country. On Monday, the IMF said it agreed, in partnership with the European Union, on the bailout package for Cyprus,... 

Spain public debt has climbed to record 92.2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the second quarter of this year amid deteriorating financial woes. The Bank of Spain announced on Friday that the Spanish debt for the period between April and June surpassed the government’s year-end target of 91.4 percent of GDP, reaching the unprecedented 92.2-percent level. This is while... 

A woman holds the Greek flag during an anti-austerity protest, July 13, 2013. A European Union official says Greece will need more rescue funds from its international creditors as the current rescue loan program expires at the end of 2014, amid economic slump in the European country. “Greece’s trouble will not have been completely resolved by 2014. It’s realistic to assume that additional... 

Everyone got used to the largest officially announced U.S. national debt of 16 trillion dollars. Moreover, despite the dire predictions, the global economy seems to be more or less stable, and recently liberal media have been happily reporting GDP growth in the United States and the European Union. However, it is not all that great. Let’s start with statistics. A number of researchers have conducted... 

A German flag flies in front of the Bundesbank headquarters in Frankfurt. A report has revealed a document showing Germany’s central bank predicts that the recession-hit Greece will need more rescue loans from its international creditors by the start of the next year. According to the report published by prominent German magazine Der Spiegel earlier this week, the document from the Bundesbank...