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The European Union is reportedly considering significant changes to its rules on asylum seekers and illegal immigration amid growing recognition that Brussels’ open borders philosophy has failed.

Europe´s economy stagnated at the end of last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output.

Denmark on Monday announced a $2 billion investment in Arctic security, implicitly acknowledging President Donald Trump’s criticism of the region’s vulnerability to Russian aggression — a vulnerability Trump wanted to address by taking control of Greenland.

As the European economy continues lagging behind the United States, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told the Davos elites the time has come for Europe to collectively look across the Atlantic and follow the U.S. lead as it grows in confidence daily under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

The jihadi regime ruling Syria after overthrowing the Assad dynasty in December dispatched its foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday to seek foreign investment for their war-torn and terrorist-haunted land.

Top European Union (E.U.) diplomat Kaja Kallas said Wednesday the bloc must heed U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for more defence spending as she issued a stark warning over the expansionist threat posed by Russia.

Almost 30,000 attempted border crossings were spotted last year. Most are young men, often from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

The only “risk to the electoral processes” that I see in Europe, is the EU “interfering” in elections because Brussels does not like the outcome and claims it has to protect “democracy” against the voters.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the national carrier of Pakistan, is taking heavy criticism for an advertisement that shows a jetliner flying at the Eiffel Tower – imagery that many viewers found uncomfortably reminiscent of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Bulgaria’s parliament approved a coalition which pledged to restore financial stability and maintain a pro-European Union and pro-NATO track.

Polish leader Tusk vowed to use country´s EU presidency to push Ukraine´s membership quest as the two sides reported progress.

Saudi Arabia hosted a large summit on Sunday — featuring American and European as well as Middle Eastern diplomats — to discuss the future of Syria, during which its officials called for lifting sanctions on the country to give its new regime a chance to recover from the civil war.

The European Commission deniedit had tried to cover up the state of health of its president, Ursula von der Leyen.

France’s top diplomat fires warning shot, warning Europe considers Greenland part of its “sovereign borders” and should be left alone. 

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is ill with “severe pneumonia” and has canceled her appointments for the next two weeks, her office announced Friday.

Despite nearly three years of war Russian energy has continued to transit unimpeded through Ukrainian territory until now.

Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.

A cross country survey in Europe has found that support for a forever war in Ukraine is falling, perhaps not coincidentally given President-Elect Donald Trump’s demands that the Europeans pay for their own defence. 

As Brexit foreshadowed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, the defeat of Kamala Harris and the Democrats this year was preceded by the fall of globalists in Europe, leaving limited options for any real challenge to Trump’s authority from across the Atlantic.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán highlighted “irreconcilable differences” with the European Union Sunday, especially on questions of immigration and gender theory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to Moscow by an EU leader since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The leader of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has surged to the top of the polls of preferred chancellors for the upcoming February elections.

The leader of the Italian government coalition League party and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has been acquitted after facing six years in prison for blocking an illegal migrant boat from disembarking in 2019. 

Hungary is “confident” that President Donald Trump’s return to office will mend the strained U.S.-Hungary relations under the Biden administration, particularly on economic and strategic issues.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned the leftist Labour Party government against backtracking on Brexit as Brussels has begun to pressure London to caving on fishing rights, migration, and national sovereignty as Prime Minister Starmer seeks a new trade deal with the bloc.

Pro-Western Zourabichvili has vowed to stay on after her six-year term ends Monday, describing herself as the only legitimate leader.

The “potential is there” for pro-nation state movements to dethrone the globalist order in Europe, however, it will be critical for them to learn lessons from Donald Trump on ground game politics, Dr Sebastian Gorka told Breitbart News this week.

Governments across Europe are stopping Syrian refugee applications, but whether a fresh migrant wave or repatriation now follows is unclear. 

Oil delivery to the Czech Republic from Russia through the Druhzba pipeline has resumed, the pipeline operator said.

Britain’s left-wing PM says he wants it both ways on Europe and the U.S. as he sets a course back towards the orbit of Brussels.

Belgian authorities said Wednesday they have opened a fraud investigation into the former European Union justice chief, just days after his mandate ended.

Man identified as British citizen arrested in Georgia, allegedly after breaking into the nation’s parliament.

Violence erupted in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Sunday, the fourth day of massive protests that began after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze suspended talks to join the European Union (EU).

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.

Australian politicians describe their ban on children under 16 using social media as “world-leading,” but in truth, the rest of the world is not far behind them. An international consensus against permitting children on social media gained momentum in 2024, despite deep reservations from Internet freedom advocates.

Europeans must be ready to sacrifice some “luxuries” to pay to support Ukraine and to prevent a “wartime scenario”, top NATO officer says.