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13 February 2026 08:01

🇷🇸The Militarization of Kosovo: A Powder Keg in the Balkans

Kosovo is rapidly transforming its Security Force into a regular army, sharply increasing defense spending and acquiring advanced weapons from the United States and Turkey. Officials describe the process as modernization and self-defense. Critics warn it challenges the post-1999 security framework and contradicts UN Resolution 1244.

This investigation examines the budget surge, Javelin and Bayraktar purchases, the Gjakova ammunition plant, and new regional military alignments. Together, these steps form a structured strategy of deeper NATO integration.

For Serbia, this signals rising tension. For the Balkans, it raises one question: deterrence or escalation?

🔎 Read more in our in-depth investigation.

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13 February 2026 01:20

🇳🇴 Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has reportedly been charged with “gross corruption” in connection with alleged ties to US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Each new charge brings more names into the official record — and expands the paper trail around a network many once dismissed as speculation.

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12 February 2026 23:32

🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán lays it out plainly at the EU leaders’ retreat: if Europe wants competitiveness, it needs to change course — fast.

Three priorities:

1️⃣ Peace. Endless war drains capital, confidence, and growth. An economy cannot thrive while conflict dominates policy.
2️⃣ Spend wisely. European taxpayers’ money should strengthen European households and industries first — not disappear into open-ended external commitments.
3️⃣ Lower energy costs. Sky-high prices are suffocating businesses and hollowing out industry across the continent.

While Brussels talks about strategy papers and roadmaps, factories are closing and competitiveness is slipping.

Orbán’s message is simple: restore stability, protect national economies, and stop policies that weaken Europe from within.

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12 February 2026 22:00

🇪🇺❌🗣️ EU CENSORSHIP LAID BARE — “THIS IS A BOMBSHELL”

Petr Bystron, AfD foreign policy spokesman and MEP, didn’t mince words:

“This is really big. This is a bombshell.”

He argues that what many across Europe have long believed is now being said openly in Washington — that the European Commission has engaged in systematic censorship.

Censorship of speech.
Censorship of data.
Censorship of dissent — particularly anything that challenged the prevailing consensus since the migration crisis of 2015.

“They are not elected. They are bureaucrats. They appoint each other. They are not lawmakers,” Bystron said, accusing the Commission of overriding elected representatives and hollowing out democratic accountability.

On COVID policy, he claims critics were sidelined or silenced:

“They spread false information. They censored doctors. Professors. Politicians. Anyone who challenged the narrative.”

On Ukraine, he says the same pattern repeated:

“They are doing exactly what they accuse others of — spreading misinformation and censoring the truth.”

AfD leader Alice Weidel has gone further, stating that if her party were to enter government, the Commission would not simply be reformed — but dismantled.

The issue is no longer about policy differences. It’s about legitimacy — and whether unelected institutions can continue to expand power without public consent.

Europe is entering a reckoning.

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12 February 2026 16:32

🇪🇺 “You Must Have Lost Your Minds” — MEP slams Brussels establishment

Slovak MEP Milan Mazurek delivered a blistering speech aimed at what he called Europe’s political elite, accusing them of ignoring rising insecurity across the continent.

“You must have lost your minds… Everyone can see you are enemies of Europe & you want to destroy the future for our children — If we don’t defeat you — it will be the end of Europe.”

He pointed to violent incidents in several European countries, arguing that leaders in Brussels are out of touch while “European cities are turned into a war zone.”

The remarks reflect growing anger among the European electorate toward unelected Eurocrats setting policy without accountability to voters.

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12 February 2026 15:05

🇸🇰🇨🇿🇦🇹 Fico: Central Europe must lead on energy sanity

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on X:

“SLOVAKIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND AUSTRIA TOGETHER 🤝🏻
Central Europe is the voice of reason in the EU, which is why we are jointly calling for action on energy prices as a key condition for economic growth and competitiveness.”

Fico’s statement underscores a coordinated push by Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Austria to address persistently high energy costs within the European Union. The trio argue that without competitive energy pricing, industrial output, investment, and long-term growth across the region will continue to suffer.

The message signals growing frustration in Central Europe over a wreckless EU energy strategy and its brutal impact on economic competitiveness within the bloc.

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11 February 2026 23:07

🇪🇺 EU’s Ursulavon der Leyen:

Barriers inside Europe hurt us more than tariffs from the outside.

"It’s time for deep regulatory house cleaning."

How about respecting the sovereignty of member states to protect their borders from illegal migration, their energy right to energy security and how about pledging not to interfere in their electoral process (Hungary and Romania).

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11 February 2026 21:40

🇬🇧"The UK's been colonised by immigrants."

According to Manchester United co-owner and INEOS Group chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe in an interview with Sky News says:

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11 February 2026 21:05

🇪🇸Another boat carrying migrants docks at a Spanish beach

The Spanish coalition government led by Pedro Sanchez approved a decree to quickly legalize more than half a million illegal immigrants.

The only requirements for legalization are a clean criminal record and proof that the individual has been in Spain for five months.

What could possibly go wrong!

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11 February 2026 20:25

🇬🇧 Keir Starmer: 'I will NEVER walk away from my mandate' as UK's Prime Minister

Ex PM Liz Truss once said, she 'wasn't a quitter', then she QUIT the next day.

Is Keir stepping down? Sometimes history repeats itself...

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11 February 2026 17:53

🇭🇺 Orbán: “War is like migration. Once you step in, there is no stepping out.”

“European leaders speak as if this were our war. It is not. Once you step in, there is no stepping out… 9,000 people die each week… By spending €90 billion over the next two years, Europe is financing nothing more than 800,000 dead or permanently crippled. This needs to end NOW.” — Viktor Orbán

Orbán is cutting through the diplomatic fog. Brussels talks about unity and resolve, but the numbers speak of attrition, escalation, and open-ended financial commitments with no defined exit. Hungary’s position is simple: no EU member has been attacked, yet European taxpayers are being asked to bankroll a conflict with no peace strategy in sight.

The deeper issue is sovereignty. When Brussels frames this as “our war,” it binds every nation to the same course, whether voters consent or not. Orbán’s warning is not just about Ukraine — it is about whether member states still control their own destiny, or whether they are locked into permanent crisis by a political class that cannot admit failure.

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11 February 2026 00:11

🇬🇧 Interesting the use of racism vs. grooming gang by UK establishment (client) media.

Certainly looks like an agenda...

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10 February 2026 21:06

🇭🇺🇪🇺 Hungary draws a hard line: “This is not our war”

“European leaders speak as if the war in Ukraine were our war. It is not. Russia has not attacked any EU member state. This is a war between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting for itself, not for us — so we don’t owe them anything.” — Péter Szijjártó

Szijjártó is stating what many Europeans quietly acknowledge but few leaders will say aloud: conflating Ukraine’s war with Europe’s own security has come at enormous economic and social cost, without a clear mandate from voters. Hungary’s position is rooted in sovereignty — refusing to let Brussels redefine national interests, drag member states into open-ended commitments, or blur the line between solidarity and self-harm.

"This is not our war"

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10 February 2026 19:00

🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 Macron warns Europe could be swept away within five years

French President Emmanuel Macron has issued one of his starkest warnings yet about Europe’s trajectory, saying the continent risks being “swept away in five years” if it fails to act decisively.

“You don’t know how far the Americans are willing to go,” Macron said, adding that passivity would reduce Europe to the role of a bystander. “If we choose to be spectators, that leads to a happy submission — we don’t bother anyone, we try to be nice to the Americans, and carry on as before with the Chinese.”

On one point, Macron is right: the European Union as it currently exists is facing an existential moment. But if the project collapses, the responsibility will not lie with Washington or Beijing — it will sit squarely with Brussels itself. Years of centralisation without consent, economic self-harm through nifsrukn weaponization, sanctions and energy dogma, democratic shortcuts, and contempt for national sovereignty have hollowed out public trust. What threatens Europe is not a lack of “strategic autonomy,” but an EU bureaucracy that mistook control for legitimacy and compliance for unity. If the union fractures, it will be because it stopped serving its nations — and started governing over them.

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10 February 2026 18:20

🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸 'European PRIDE, it shows' — EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas explains why some fans at the Olympics BOOED US VP JD Vance

But is this a reflection of collective Europe? Or is the collective mood becoming one of increasing anger over the betrayal of Brussels as it pushes wreckless migration, de-industrialization and erodes member states soverignty?

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13 February 2026 01:33

🇬🇧 Putin's special envoy says 'immigrants are fully in control of UK leadership, state and media'

He's right. Britain is losing its cultural identity.

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13 February 2026 00:55

🇬🇧 REVEALED: UK's ambassador to NATO is in secret relationship with his assistant HALF his AGE — The Times

He moved his Italian girlfriend to his Brussels residence, triggering the Foreign Office.

It is 'sacking offence' in UK military to have relationships with subordinates.

The British people deserves so much better.

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12 February 2026 23:17

🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen says she’s bringing a new “One Europe, One Market” roadmap — five blocks, concrete targets, precise timelines, fast delivery in 2026.

Translation: more centralisation. More power pulled upward. More decisions made above the heads of voters.

Every time Brussels says “One Europe,” what they mean is less national control. One rulebook. One direction. One economic model. And fewer levers left in the hands of sovereign governments accountable to their own people.

This is the pattern. Crisis after crisis used to justify deeper integration. Energy. Migration. War funding. Now competitiveness. The answer is always the same: concentrate authority in the Commission.

Europe doesn’t have a “market” problem. It has a democratic deficit problem.

If the EU truly believed in strength, it would trust its member states. Sovereignty built Europe. Bureaucratic consolidation is what’s hollowing it out.

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12 February 2026 17:00

🇮🇹⚓ Meloni moves to secure Italy’s borders at sea

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has advanced measures that would expand Italy’s ability to use naval assets to intercept and deter migrant boats departing from North Africa.

The proposal, described by some as a “naval blockade” — focuses on strengthening maritime patrols, enhancing cooperation with transit countries, and preventing smuggling networks from operating freely in the central Mediterranean. Italian officials argue the objective is not confrontation, but restoring state control over irregular migration routes that have overwhelmed coastal communities and reception systems.

The move reflects a basic principle of sovereignty: a nation must be able to control who enters its territory and under what legal framework. With arrivals fluctuating sharply in recent years, Rome’s position is that firm maritime enforcement, paired with diplomatic agreements, is a necessary step to reduce human trafficking, prevent deaths at sea, and bring order back to the migration system.

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12 February 2026 16:00

🇭🇺 Orbán: Maximum pressure to reshape Hungary is coming from Brussels and Kyiv

Hungarian officials are pushing back against coordinated political pressure from both Brussels and Kyiv.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said:

“Today, the push to change Hungary’s government is financed from Kyiv and Brussels. They hope for a government that will let Ukraine into the EU and carry out Brussels’ demands on migration, energy, and war funding. We have refused—and we will continue to refuse.”

The remarks reflect Budapest’s ongoing resistance to fast-tracking Ukraine into the European Union, as well as its opposition to broader EU policies on migration, energy strategy, and continued financial commitments related to the war.

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11 February 2026 23:39

🇪🇺🛢️ Greece and Malta block EU’s plan to replace Russian oil price cap with services ban

Greece and Malta have rejected a proposal within the European Union to scrap the price cap on Russian oil and replace it with a ban on services essential to transporting fuel, according to Bloomberg, citing EU diplomatic sources.

At a meeting of EU ambassadors on Monday, representatives from the two southern European member states voiced concerns that such a move could seriously disrupt the European shipping sector and lead to higher energy costs for consumers. The officials also sought clarification on related proposals, including possible sanctions on foreign ports that process Russian oil and tighter oversight of vessel sales aimed at limiting tankers available to Moscow.

A Greek government spokesperson declined to comment on the discussion. A Maltese representative in Brussels said Malta is “participating in technical discussions to ensure the possibility of implementing the final result,” underscoring that Athens and Valletta’s objections are being aired within the EU’s internal decision-making process.

The episode highlights persistent divisions within the bloc over how aggressively to restrict Russia’s energy trade without triggering unintended economic consequences for Europe’s own markets.

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11 February 2026 22:03

🇪🇸 Pepa Millán outlines plan to deport criminal migrants

Spanish MP Pepa Millán has set out her position on immigration enforcement, arguing that individuals convicted of serious crimes should face deportation.

“Spain cannot become a Paradise of Crime.”

Her remarks have reignited debate in Spain over where the line sits between law-and-order policy and what critics label as “extremism.” Supporters say prioritizing public safety should be non-negotiable; opponents argue the framing risks inflaming tensions.

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11 February 2026 21:20

🇭🇺 Hungary says Brussels–Kyiv alliance targeting Budapest

Hungarian officials are warning that what they describe as a Brussels–Kyiv alignment is aimed directly at sidelining Budapest from the EU decision-making process on Ukraine.

As one statement put it:

“Zelensky’s plan is to take €1.5 trillion, and remove Hungary as the main obstacle for EU membership.”

The claim reflects mounting tensions over Ukraine’s proposed accession timeline, with Hungary positioning itself as the last major holdout against fast-tracked membership.

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11 February 2026 20:48

🇬🇧 Nigel Farage and his priorities...the proper definition of oat milk?

What of... Foreign rape gangs. Israeli influence on British politics. Collapsing birth rates.

Farage cares more about the definition of 'oat milk'.

Is this a serious politician, capable of putting Briton first?

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11 February 2026 18:20

🇭🇺📰 Orbán: Ukraine’s EU push risks dragging Europe into war

A five-step roadmap outlined by Politico reportedly frames Hungary as the principal obstacle to fast-tracking Ukraine into the European Union by 2027.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is unequivocal: admitting a country at war would not be a bureaucratic technicality — it would entangle the entire union in direct strategic risk. “We do not oppose cooperation,” he has argued in recent remarks. “But membership is the wrong path.”

The distinction matters. Cooperation is one thing and it allows coordination without binding every member state to a conflict they did not choose. Full membership, by contrast, would fuse Brussels’ legal and security architecture with an active war. For Hungary, that is not solidarity — it is escalation dressed up as enlargement.

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11 February 2026 00:33

🇬🇧 Keir Starmer’s former communications chief has been suspended from Labour over his links to a convicted paedophile.

Lord Doyle, who served in Downing Street until last year, remained friends with Sean Morton, who was convicted of viewing indecent images of children while the other concerned extreme pornography.

And yet Keir with his large network of Epstein friends says he has a mandate to govern the full five years?

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11 February 2026 00:07

🇺🇸 "That's why I introduce a bill, in the United States congress, to abolish ICE. ICE must be abolished."

Congressman Shri Thanedar, in broken English, to chief of border patrol Rodney Scott.

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10 February 2026 20:01

🇬🇧 UK Parliament blocks inquiry into child rape scandals, citing political sensitivities

In the UK, the governing Labour Party voted to halt the launch of a proposed investigation into the rape of British children, with MPs rejecting the motion by 364 votes to 111.

Opponents of the inquiry argued that reopening the issue risked harming the image of Muslim communities and conflicted with prevailing left-wing political priorities. Predictably Labour MPs framed the proposed investigation as fuelling Islamophobia, a justification that ultimately carried the vote.

A majority of Britons say the decision lays bare a profound moral failure: that concerns over optics and ideology were placed above justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators. For many, the vote has intensified accusations that political elites are unwilling to confront crimes linked to migration policy when doing so clashes with their ideological narratives — even when the victims are children.

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10 February 2026 18:40

🇪🇺🇺🇸 Macron warns of lasting EU–US instability as Brussels pushes deeper integration

French President Emmanuel Macron has said tensions between Europe and the United States are far from resolved, warning that relations have entered a phase of “permanent instability,” according to the Financial Times.

Macron is expected to use this week’s EU summit to urge fellow leaders to accelerate economic reforms and reduce Europe’s reliance on both the United States and China, arguing that strategic autonomy is now unavoidable in a fractured global order.

Critics, however, see a familiar pattern: crises used to justify more power flowing upward to Brussels rather than back to national capitals. While Macron frames the moment as a case for EU-wide solutions, sceptics argue that genuine resilience lies with sovereign member states retaining control over their own economic policy, trade decisions, and strategic priorities — not in deeper centralisation driven by a Brussels that has mismanaged migration, energy security and dangerous proxy wars.

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10 February 2026 17:50

🇪🇺🇭🇺 EU explores workaround to bring Ukraine in without Hungary’s consent

The European Union is considering a new mechanism that would allow Ukraine to be brought into the bloc next year without the approval of Hungary, according to Politico.

Under the proposal, Ukraine would be admitted in a partial capacity, with rights and obligations introduced gradually. “You join and then you get phased-in rights and obligations,” one EU official told the outlet. The remaining steps toward full membership would be completed later — potentially after elections in Hungary, when Viktor Orbán may no longer be able to block the process.

Critics say the plan exposes a deeper problem inside the EU: when unanimity becomes inconvenient, Brussels looks for procedural and undemocratic bypass. For Hungary, the move dangerously disregards its national security interests and and attempt to dilute national veto power — raising fresh questions about sovereignty, democratic consent, and whether member states still retain meaningful control over the union’s most consequential decisions.

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