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An investigation by a Portuguese newspaper has revealed that the Socialist Party (PS), the country's second largest, was involved in a propaganda operation, involving…
Ethnic tensions have come to the fore in Portugal during the run-up to the May 18 general election - the third in just over three years - as insurgent party Chega!
Until fairly recently, it looked like Bulgaria was set to join the Eurozone early next year.
A lack of co-ordination and poor access to energy data has hampered the European Union’s ability to deliver energy security, a think-tank conference was told.
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has stressed that the European Union remained a "peace project" amid commemorations of the end of the…
A coalition of right-wing and non-affiliated MEPs has secured the 180 signatures required to trigger a vote on the creation of a new committee to investigate corruption…
Here follows an abstract theory that requires more evidence before it becomes a concrete one: welfare states both by definition and by psychological design are incapable…
The European Union has an opportunity to poach talent amid a US clampdown on academic research but it continued to face two persistent obstacles: Limited funding…
In hindsight, what makes the 1990s appear to be worthy of nostalgia is the fact that almost everything ran on autopilot.
An old Irish proverb describes how a stranger asks an elderly countryman for directions to a certain place: “If that’s where you want to go,” comes the reply,…
European top officials use the Signal app to send messages to each other, the European Union diplomatic service has admitted.
Europe was accustomed for so long to an alliance with the United States where the contributions and benefits were so uneven in Europe's favour that the Europeans…
EU procurement rules are too hard to implement and should be abandoned, conference-goers heard on April 14.
Europe pays regular obeisance to remembering “the lessons of the past.
Liberal MEP and member of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, Bernard Guetta, has suggested that the European Union should consider forging a political…
Donald Trump has unleashed a trade tempest that has got the EU scrambling.
Before the First World War, European countries decided what happened to the rest of the world.
The template for the conduct and outcome of all public controversy, both in Spain and elsewhere, should be the YouTube footage of the “notorious” kiss by the…
The European Commission has admitted that grants from the €5.
Norway has reopened a long-standing and controversial debate on European Union membership after its Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg said: "We are by definition…
Conservative MEPs looking for more transparency regarding European Union funding for activist NGOs said they had the door slammed in their faces by the European…
The conviction for embezzlement of French Rassemblement National leader Marine Le Pen invites concern that the French are setting off down the same road of politicisation…
In the puppet comedy film Team America, the counter-terrorist protagonists defeat a group of Islamic terrorists in Paris, accidentally destroying the Eiffel Tower,…
Liberals and judges everywhere will be rejoicing at the elimination of Marine Le Pen from the presidential race for the Élysée, the former because they will happily…
Left-wing organisations are trying to push back against MEPs who have been critical of lavish and secretive subsidies funnelled to green NGOs, but in doing so the…
Don't blame US President Donald Trump for the souring of transatlantic relations, Henry Olsen told a Brussels Signal event this week.
Europe as a political, cultural and economic entity does not deserve to survive.
One of the biggest problems in today’s politics (at least in the West) is the tendency by politicians to compartmentalise everything.
According to the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, Italy, along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia, have been contributing to a "democratic race to the…
Western opinion makers frothing at the mouth in recent weeks over “America’s betrayal” and “Trump’s alliance with Russia” will have been dumbfounded…
