First plenary session of the European Parliament starts with a scandal (VIDEO)


MEPs from Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party have started their terms in the European Parliament by turning their backs on the EU’s national anthem during the legislature’s opening ceremony. The Brexit MEPs carried out the protest as Ode to Joy played this morning to open the new parliamentary session. But they were not the only British …

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Brexit protocol on UK bases in Cyprus maintains current arrangements


The Brexit deal that received the seal of approval by the EU leaders in Brussels includes the ‘Protocol Relating to the Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Cyprus’. The 20-pages and 13-articles-long protocol aims to safeguard the rights of the almost 11,000 Cypriots that live and …

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Canadian firm also involved in Facebook data scandal


Britain’s information commissioner is looking at the work of Victoria-based political data firm AggregateIQ as part of an investigation into whether British digital privacy laws were broken during the Brexit referendum campaign, Global News has learned. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) refused to release records on their examination of AggregateIQ that Global News had requested under British access-to-information …

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