Switzerland today is celebrating its breakaway status from the European Union, having finally tired of the bullying and rhetoric from Brussels and walked away from a proposed framework arrangement after seven years of negotiations, preferring to go it alone in Swissexit. Never a full member of the EU, that decision …
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A Palestinian terrorist outfit blacklisted by the EU has siphoned off millions of euros in EU international-development funds over several years, despite Brussels having rules in place since 2019 banning the funding of terrorist groups. Israel’s internal-security service, Shin Bet, revealed that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine …
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The bloc’s executive leadership recommended on Monday that member states lift restrictions on “non-essential” travel for foreigners who have received all necessary doses of a jab authorized for use within the EU, at least 14 days before arrival. Brussels added that states could choose to extend the guideline to include …
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Last month’s April Fools ‘La Boum’ party drew thousands of people to a nonexistent concert in the Belgian capital of Brussels, for a gathering that turned into an impromptu protest against the country’s coronavirus restrictions. Police cracked down hard on the gathering, and shocking video footage showed mounted cops mowing …
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Around 5,000 mainly young people showed up at the forest park just south of Brussels on Thursday, for an event called “La Boum” (a reference to a 1980s French teen rom-com) even though it was obviously an April 1 prank. After using drones to repeatedly call on the partygoers to …
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Speaking on Wednesday, European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said the EU and its member states would now evaluate, on a case-by-case basis, whether vaccine shipments will be allowed to leave the 27-nation bloc, but under new criteria. The criteria, which had previously been touted by EC President Ursula von …
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Speaking at a press conference alongside his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that currently, “there are no relations with the EU as an organization. The entire infrastructure of these relations has been destroyed by unilateral decisions made from Brussels.” Some individual European countries, he argued, are …
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Announcing the move, Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne revealed that in some areas of the Belgian metropolis, almost 80 percent of women do not go out for fear of being harassed or attacked. Verbally abusing women in Brussels is already punishable by up to one month in prison or …
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“I believe we have no other option, both Russia and the European Union, than to try to bring those relations back to normality,” Vladimir Chizhov, Moscow’s permanent representative to the EU, said. The Russian diplomat was commenting on the latest slate of anti-Russian sanctions which the EU imposed in an …
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Venezuela’s National Assembly voted earlier this week to expel EU envoy Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, and asked for President Nicolas Maduro to declare her persona non grata. “She has been given 72 hours to leave Venezuelan territory,” Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told reporters on Wednesday. Responding to the move, a …
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