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Spanish MEP appeals to Netanyahu to back Spain's sovereignty amid Ceuta border crisis

Tens of thousands crossed into a city of 84,000 in a matter of days, leaving at least 83 dead and raising questions about Morocco’s role, Spain’s sovereignty, and Israel’s response.

Members of the Guardia Civil USECIC guard migrants on Tarajal beach after crossing the border between Spain and Morocco on July 31, 2026 in Ceuta, Spain.
Rubaha, 8, watches from the entrance of her home as a buffalo is held down for sacrificial slaughter in celebration of Eid al-Adha in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan, June 8, 2025.

European Parliament demands Pakistan free 13-year-old Christian girl in forced marriage, conversion

Member of Parliament Abtisam Mohamed looks on on the day Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a ministerial statement on Hamas' October 7 attack anniversary and the Middle East at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, October 7, 2024.

British lawmakers press government for immediate ban on Israeli West Bank settlement imports

View of the European Parliament during a plenary session in Brussels, Belgium, March 2, 2017.

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Belgian MP says Iran tried to kidnap her, use her as bargain chip in 'hostage diplomacy'

Darya Safai, a Belgian Iranian Member of the Belgian Parliament, announced that Iran was planning to kidnap her alongside other European MPs.

 Members of a special IRGC force attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022.

Trump clinches 15% tariff deal with EU's Ursula von de Leyen

US President Donald Trump announced that the European Union had reached a trade agreement, which includes a 15% tariff on EU goods entering the US.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 27, 2025

EU prosecutor's office investigates alleged misuse of funds by far-right lawmakers

Media outlets across the EU reported that a draft European Parliament audit found parties linked to the group engaged in improper procurement and donated to non-parliamentary activities.

European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023.

European Parliament condemns PA textbooks for six years in a row

The resolutions called for EU funding to the PA to be frozen until textbooks are reformed. It also signaled growing pressure on the European Commission to adopt a similar stance.

European flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2023.

European Parliament suspends MEP who disrupted Holocaust moment of silence

European Parliament Member Grzegorz Braun was suspended for thirty days from the European Parliament after disrupting the moment of silence "for the next victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza."

 Grzegorz Braun, member of far-right political alliance Confederation, speaks during a parliament session, after he used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah menorah candles, at the Parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.

France's Le Pen barred from running for office for five years after graft conviction

The judges also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence- of which two years are a suspended sentence - and a 100,000 euro fine.

French far Right leader Marine Le Pen at the courthouse in Paris, France, March 31, 2025.

Tehran rejects EU parliament’s resolution hostage diplomacy

In the government’s statement, it was said that the resolution’s section regarding the IRGC was “completely unjustified.”

 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq December 6, 2024.

Fingers pointing in all directions: Dutch politicians debate Amsterdam attacks, antisemitism

The members of the House debated the role of lack of integration, antisemitism within the Muslim population, and failure of authority in a discussion about the attacks.

 Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof speaks to the media at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 17, 2024.

'The time for silence is over': Experts condemn Hamas's sexual violence and attacks on women

During the event, experts testified that the same forces seeking to attack the Jewish people were abusing women throughout the Middle East.

  (L-R) MEP Fulvio Martusciello, Manel Mslalmi and Dr. Charles Asher Small speaking at the EU Parliament in Brussels, October 15, 2024.

Vilimsky to 'Post': 'Israel represents a bulwark against Islamism and political Islam'

Austrian far-right MEP Harald Vilimsky changes antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric after Oct. 7.

HARALD VILIMSKY celebrates the Austrian Freedom Party’s success in the European elections at an election night party in Vienna in June.