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“The EU’s attempt to ban halogen bulbs is wrong because consumers will suffer financially and it’s always the poorest who suffer most from these kinds of policies,” Jonathan Bullock, the UK Independence Party spokesman in the European parliament, told the Guardian. “Customers should have the

MORE than 100 cars were set alight in a night of co-ordinated mayhem by hooded youths in cities across Sweden. Acting in what authorities said was "almost a military operation", yobs launched simultaneous attacks on vehicles in locations up to 300

Aerial footage shows trucks and cars stranded on either side of the 80-metre long collapsed section of the Morandi Bridge, while mpre than 300 rescue workers attempt to drag out survivors below.

Livestock farmers in Scandinavia are struggling to feed their livestock as the worst drought in 70 years hits harvests

Matteo Salvini is making demographics his top priority, warning a country which favours immigration over the family is

President Donald Trump says the United States and the European Union have agreed to work toward "zero tariffs" and "zero subsidies" on non-automobile goods.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition risked breaking apart Monday, as her hardline conservative Bavarian allies pushed a showdown over migrant policy after she was unmoved by her interior minister's threat to resign.The global networ

German police said the deaths, which occurred at the company the man worked for, included a "remarkably high number of heart attacks and cancers"

Almost half of German voters want Chancellor Angela Merkel to quit, according to a new poll, more than those who want her to stay on.

Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have called for the EU's border management agency to be strengthened. The Visegrad Group has pushed for hard-line policies on irregular migration to the EU.

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) have called for Sweden to hold a referendum on the country's EU membership after the 2018 Swedish general election. SD party leader Jimmie kesson told newspaper Dagens Industri that the EU is a "large web

The chancellor was struggling Monday to head off a mutiny within her conservative bloc.

The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia (FYROM) have signed a preliminary accord on the latter's name. The deal aims at ending a decades-long dispute.

Mediterranean resorts are having to ban swimming because of plagues of jellyfish, which scientists blame on a complex cocktail of human impacts, from climate change to overfishing.

Austria plans to close seven mosques and may expel dozens of imams in an effort to push back against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups.

A major US-led exercise in Poland and the Baltic states has kicked off. It comes amid interest from Poland about welcoming a permanent US military presence on its territory.

Italy's president swears in an anti-establishment government, ending a three-month long political stalemate.

Slovenian voters go to the polls this weekend in a parliamentary election expected to produce no clear winner but could see an anti-immigrant party backed by Hungary's firebrand Prime Minister Viktor Orban make strong gains.

Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy was deposed Friday by a no-confidence vote in parliament amid corruption scandals in his center-right The post Spanish Prime Minister deposed. Socialists move in appeared first on DEBKAfile .

Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital on Wednesday, the latest in a series of episodes that have...