
New Year’s Eve Sees Unprecedented Destruction and Rioting Across Europe
In most cases, immigrant neighborhoods were the hotspots of vandalism and violence.

In most cases, immigrant neighborhoods were the hotspots of vandalism and violence.

The fierce protest by farmers and livestock producers in Brussels delivered an unexpected result: a last-minute delay to the EU–Mercosur agreement.

Over the past five days, the Saint-Gilles quarter of the Belgian capital saw a series of explosions and shootings, bringing Brussels’ total violent incidents in 2025 to 96.

Mercosur and the Green Deal have become the symbols of fierce citizen discontent.

The demonstration coincides with an EU Council summit and comes hours before Ursula von der Leyen travels to Brazil for talks linked to the Mercosur agreement.

Federal underfunding of a support centre leaves psychologists overwhelmed—reports on offenders are now taking months to complete and potentially affecting court decisions.

Brussels has been criticised for apparently issuing an “unprecedented threat” to an EU founding member.

The new EU budget may become a “strategic instrument of political ambition” that seeks to centralize power in Brussels.

The European political climate after Gaza, street-level pressure, and the partisan use of the conflict complicate any attempt to rebuild the relationship between Brussels and Jerusalem.

Patriots for Europe VP and Hungarian MEP Kinga Gál condemned the Commission’s decision, calling it “the highest form of discrimination on the basis of gender ideology.”