The German government will deploy additional police forces at the Polish border to crack down on increasing traffic from the Belarus route, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced. Germany has been facing a new surge in irregular migrant crossings, mainly from…
France is set to crack down on social and welfare fraud, public accounts Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Tuesday, while experts claim this will hit the poorest, and the government should focus on tax evasion instead. Up to €8 billion…
On Monday evening, a wildfire broke out in the High Fens region, on the border with Germany, burning an area equivalent to 230 football pitches, with 140 firefighters from Belgium and Germany scrambling to control it. At the start of…
A fishing vessel trawling. (Photo: EU commission) There is a false division between refugees and economic migrants. Refugees are victims of war and persecution, while economic migrants, we are told, have the choice to stay put. But what if their…
A united democratic front of all pro-independence parties in Catalonia is the only way to stop the surge of the right and far-right, and avoid a pact of all reactionary forces who oppose an independent Catalonia, the regional president, Pere…
When TAP was privatised, 100% of the profits went to the private sector, and all of the risks went to the state, said former Planning Minister Pedro Marques in parliament on Tuesday. At the time, the PSD/CDS government had ceased…
Former journalist Jana Peterková received a two-year suspended sentence from the Prague City Court for spreading alarmist news during the pandemic, despite her supporters storming the courtroom. Dozens of supporters came to support Peterková in the court hearing, breaking down…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy was working to cobble together the votes to push through the compromise he struck with President Biden, as lawmakers in both parties signaled their displeasure with the plan. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…
The special counsel is scrutinizing the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, who contradicted baseless claims by the former president that the 2020 election was marred by fraud. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The Texas Republican, who is the policy director for the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, has become the face of Republican opposition to a compromise forged to avert a federal default. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have