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Contentious legislation passing the British Parliament late tonight that will give the government the ability to send asylum-seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda... In Ukraine late tonight explosions reported in Odessa...early Tuesday morning...explosions reported in Kiev... An investigation led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna finding no links between the United Nations World Relief Agency and terrorist groups... The Russian military in Syria noting 14 violations of Syrian airspace by US-led coalition warplanes... 35 rockets fired into northern Israel as Passover began this evening... The trial of President Donald Trump in New York heard its first testimony today......

Europe has set a clear goal for full decarbonization by 2050, with renewables-based electricity set to become the dominant energy carrier, and that means fossil gas will have “only a marginal role” in the long run, EU climate chief Frans Timmermans said on Thursday (25 March). By 2050, Europe’s energy system will be changed fundamentally, with ten times more solar and onshore wind power than today, said Timmermans, the European Commission’s executive vice-president in charge of the Green Deal. And “at the end of that road, there will be no more space for coal, very little room for oil, and...

Last Wednesday, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans hosted a roundtable with imams from Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. He had a message for them that they doubtlessy welcomed: “The Commission is strongly committed to promoting diversity in Europe. Islam is part of our history, Islam is part of our present and Islam will be part of our future.” There is no doubt that Timmermans’ statement is true, but not quite in the way he meant. Timmermans did hint that he was aware Europe might not travel a smooth and placid path to the glorious multicultural future:...

The European Commission has declared the Cologne sex attacks on New Year's Eve have nothing to do with Europe's ongoing migrant crisis, describing such links as "false associations". Internal minutes of a European Commission meeting held on January 13th illustrate the complacent attitude of senior European Union (EU) leaders to the Cologne sex attacks. They appear more concerned with limiting damage to the wider European project than facing problems caused by their own migration policies. The New Year's Eve attacks were perpetrated "almost exclusively" by migrant men of Arabic and North African descent. As Breitbart London previously reported they followed...

The new European Commission has rejected the UK Government’s call to set up an independent body to scrutinize EU regulation and impact assessments before and after legislative proposals are adopted by the executive. Jean-Claude Juncker’s spokeswoman, Natasha Bertaud, told EurActiv that impact assessments would remain an internal matter before proposals were adopted. Frans Timmermans, Juncker’s choice for the new post of vice president in charge of better regulation, would ensure their quality, she said, after pointing to EU treaties governing Commission procedures. Currently, research on the impact of regulation is looked over by an internal Commission department. It is then...