US threatens retaliation over planned Polish digital tax
The US has warned Poland it will retaliate if Warsaw brings in a planned digital tax on Big Tech firms, calling the idea "not very smart".
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US expands global arms dominance as Russian exports decline
According to a report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the US has accounted for more than 60 per cent of European NATO…
Vienna teachers sound alarm as ever-younger children fast for Ramadan
Teachers in Austria’s capital Vienna have become alarmed at the growing number of young schoolchildren observing the Muslim fasting period of Ramadan.
Morons writing half-wit stories: journalism now corrupted by leftie activists
Moronification: the educational process that turns promising, intelligent, and semi-sentient young people into fully-functional halfwits.
Another hyped ‘green’ sustainable energy company files for restructuring
Danish electrolyser manufacturer Green Hydrogen Systems has announced a plan to file a petition for court restructuring because it could not secure sufficient funding…
Spain’s Vox under investigation for alleged ‘irregular financing’ after PSOE complaint
Spain’s anti-corruption prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the right-wing party Vox for alleged "irregular financing".
New doubts over digital-euro plan after ECB outage
European lawmakers have voiced fresh doubt about the European Central Bank’s digital-euro project after an outage in the ECB’s existing payment system caused…
Huge fire off English coast after oil tanker and cargo ship collide
An oil tanker and a cargo ship collided off the northeastern coast of England on Monday, March 10, causing a huge fire, with authorities mounting…
Portuguese Government in crisis over PM’s alleged conflict of interests
Less than a year after coming into power, Portugal's Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's centre-right minority government has come under intense pressure and appeared…
Elite’s delusions on Islamic terrorists allow mass killing, rape, enslavement
The late Bernard Lewis once noted that the West risks being perceived in the Middle East as "harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend.
Germany’s Greens may refuse to back Merz in threat to massive debt plans
Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing with a party source, on March 10, warning…
Polish anti-migrant protesters block bridge on border with Germany
Protesters in Poland including politicians from the Conservatives (PiS) blocked a bridge on the border to voice their opposition against the transfer of migrants…
Sikorski tells Musk Poland will provide Ukraine with alternative to Starlink
Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski reminded Elon Musk that Poland has ordered and paid for Ukraine's Starlink internet services and that if it was…
Brain-drain to Paris: France courts US scientists unhappy with Trump
As US researchers have voiced concerns over the direction of science and research policy under US President Donald Trump’s administration, France has positioned…
Italian whippet proves top dog at UK’s Crufts
A whippet from Venice in Italy has been named best in show at the 2025 Crufts international dog show in the UK.
Canada’s new PM Carney to renounce his UK and Irish passports
Canada's incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney, a citizen of both the UK and Ireland, has said he would now renounce both nationalities.
Corruption in Pakistan: A risk for South Asia’s stability and a threat for Europe
As Pakistan backs away from its anti-corruption transparency pledge, the consequences could ripple beyond its $7 billion IMF loan programme, threatening regional…
Italian Government ordered to compensate illegal boat migrants
Italy’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government must compensate a group of illegal migrants who were stranded aboard the Coast Guard ship Diciotti from 16…
‘Boycott USA’ : Consumer revolt spreads across Europe
French and Danish consumers have been turning their backs on US products, launching a growing boycott movement in protest against Washington's foreign and economic…
Germany’s Merz seeks French, UK nuclear weapons sharing
German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for…
Poland seeks nuclear weapons cover and wants military training for all its men
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that the government wanted to introduce military training for all adult males and that his country would seek to…
Romanian elections favourite Georgescu’s candidacy rejected
Călin Georgescu, frontrunner in the Romanian presidential elections to be re-run in May, has had his candidacy rejected by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) for…
‘Increased defence spending couldn’t come at worse time,’ says ING think-tank
ING Economics, the think-tank of international lender ING Bank, has warned that the planned €800 billion spending spree on defence announced by the European Commission…
Popular Berlin folk festival cancelled due to risk of car-attacks
A popular folk festival in the Berlin borough of Friedrichshagen, the Bölschefest, has been cancelled because the organiser said he felt he could not guarantee…
Belgian defence minister eyes Brussels-based Audi factory as military production site
Belgium’s recently closed Audi Brussels factory could soon be transformed into a military defence production site, the country's Minister of Defence Theo Francken…
French director guilty of buying apartment with Erasmus+ money
The director of a cultural association in Alsace, northeastern France, has been convicted of diverting €110,500 in European taxpayer's money to purchase an apartment…
Austria to stay neutral amid EU arms build-up, says new foreign minister
Austria’s new foreign minister has confirmed that the country will adhere to its constitutional neutrality following the newly announced European Union defence…
Judge becomes editor in Dutch newspaper Hamas controversy
A Dutch judge has ruled that De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest newspaper, must add a clarification to a comment piece about Hamas to prevent readers from misinterpreting…
No more ‘Strong Gods’ in Europe: what men will volunteer to fight now?
Imagine being a frontline Ukrainian soldier on February 28th, having survived another nightmarish day of trench warfare with satellite enabled battlefield transparency,…
Passenger misery ahead: Almost all German airports to be hit by strikes
Almost all of Germany's airports will be hit by a 24-hour strike after trade union Verdi called for employees in the public sector and ground handling to walk…