German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech on EU reform, her spokesman said, without giving details on how she would go about improving the way the European Union is run. Macron offered a sweeping vision for Europe’s future in a speech in Sorbonne University in Paris, calling for the EU to cooperate…
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EU to reintroduce long-term border controls
European Commission confirmed EU border controls could be extended in crisis, giving it more leeway to stem migration. We must preserve and strengthen #Schengen. Free movement and security = two sides of same coin. What do we propose? →https://t.co/Y8Hr3j4oSB pic.twitter.com/RSgELrSSTk — European Commission (@EU_Commission) September 27, 2017 The proposal by the EU executive comes as border…
Italy overwhelmed by migrants high tight
At the meeting Tallinn, Estonia, the EU interior ministers agreed to reinforce the Libyan coastguard, apply deportations of migrants, rejected the asylum status, and provide funds to African countries to defeat poverty forcing people to search better life in Europe. EU interior ministers had also a message to NGOs actively rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean…
Trump announces talks with European leaders in Hamburg
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to speak with German, French and Italian officials on Monday (03.07.2017) he said ahead of the summit of the G20 economies in Hamburg this week. Trump announced the talks on Twitter but gave no details, is scheduled to attend the two-day G20 summit that starts on Friday (07.07.2017), and will…
EU27 contest for two agencies to be moved from UK
Brussels. 22.06.2017. The European leaders are deciding upon he future of EU agencies located in London in the wake of the post Brexit referendum changes. At a summit in Brussels the EU27 leaders without Theresa May are expected to take the next crucial step in moving two EU agencies out of the British capital. Belgium's…
Brexit: birth of political identities
BREXIT SPECIAL REPORT: The UK’s decision to leave the EU on 23 June 2016 has given birth to new political identities, a new report by The UK in a Changing Europe shows. “EU referendum: one year on”, commissioned by the Political Studies Association, the report demonstrates how the referendum has produced new political allegiances based…
Helmut Kohl “father of reunification” died
Helmut Kohl, who served as German chancellor from 1982 to 1998, has died at the age of 87. The so-called “father of reunification” was modern Germany’s longest serving chancellor, coinciding with the peaceful end of the Cold War. Mr Kohl was chancellor of then West Germany between 1982 and 1990, and the reunified Germany between…
Schaeuble questions ‘significant change’ in Greek bailout plan
The German parliament’s budget committee must decide if the bailout plan for Greece agreed by euro zone finance ministers and the IMF on June, 15 evening is up to the level of a significant change to the existing program, Germany’s finance minister said. In an interview with ARD television on June 15 (15.06.2017) , Finance…
Germany to withdraw from Incirlik
Germany has no choice but to withdraw the Bundeswehr deployment from the strategic air base Incirlik, foreign minister said. Authorities have considered several countries for the relocation of the troops, including Jordan. #German FM #Gabriel has confirmed that all #German soldiers and aircraft will leave #Incirlik Airbase in #Turkey. pic.twitter.com/f77A5ud5HF — WorldOnAlert (@worldonalert) June 5,…
Afghan refugee murders a child taken hostage
A knife-wielding assiliant from Afghanistan has taken hostage and lethally injured a 5-year-old boy and wounded his Russian mother in a centre for refugees in the Bavarian municipality of Arnschwang. The carnage unfolded in the shelter on Saturday afternoon, police report. (Photo: police, illustration) Police, who had promptly arrived at the scene, shot dead the…
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