It is not realistic to take further steps towards European Union integration at this point and after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc its remaining members must be ready to form ‘coalitions of the willing’, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said. “Given the current situation, it is not realistic to think that we can take…
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Juncker's Five scenarios for EU
The European Commission today adopted a White Paper on the Future of Europe, presenting avenues for unity for the EU at 27. Speaking at the European Parliament today (pictured), President Juncker presented a White Paper on the Future of Europe, setting out the main achievements of the European Union: a peace spanning seven decades and…
Poland opposes Tusk 2d mandate
Today Poland made clear it would oppose the re-appointment of its former prime minister Donald Tusk next week as the chairman of EU Council, responsible for preparing the meetings. The term of Tusk, who chairs the European Council, which brings together the leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union, ends in May….
US-Russia: demining
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to speak on the phone Saturday in their first conversation since Trump took office, an administration official told CNN. Trump has vowed to have better relations with Russia than his predecessor. This month, he suggested he would lift sanctions imposed by the Obama…
Atkinson MEP on Supreme Court ruling
Janice ATKINSON MEP OPINION: “Today the out-of-touch, unelected elite Supreme Court Justices have ruled in favour of a few wealthy individuals who sought to thwart the will of the British people to leave the EU. “Our discredited former Prime Minister Tony Blair, himself a lawyer and the man who set up the Supreme Court may see this as a victory…
Leviathan gas in high ranks
Today high-level contacts between Israel and European countries on laying a gas pipeline from the Leviathan natural gas reservoir are about to take place. Reportedly the Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources director general Shaul Meridor will travel to Brussels on Monday 23/01 to meet his counterparts from Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and the…
Deadline to USA 'political' ambassadors
The politically appointed US ambassadors are denied the extension of their mandate beyond the inauguration day 20/01/2016, according to the State department sources in Washington DC. The decision of the president-elect Donald Trump to accelerate the process of political change in the US corps-diplomatique is not surprising to independent experts, pointing at the necessity of…
The world media discusses the move of the he UK’s ambassador to the European Union, Sir Ivan Rogers who resigned from the beginning of 2017, addressing a following letter to his staff: Dear All, Happy New Year! I hope that you have all had/are still having, a great break, and that you will come back…
Happy New Year 2017!
Dear Readers! Brussels Diplomatic editorial wishes you Happy New Year 2017!
Syria: EU welcomes peace halt
“…The announcement of an agreement for cessation of hostilities on the eve of a New Year is welcome”- – says a statement of EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini commenting on the situation in Syria in hope for a lasting cessation of hostilities, the first one since the last peace halt in Syria failed. “What matters first and…
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