Brussels 25.07.2025 The EU is hopeful to sign a trade deal with President Trump after the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, announced that would meet him on Sunday, July 27, during his four-day trip to Scotland. Trump landed tonight before the opening of his new golf course in Aberdeenshire and was planning to…
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MEPs battling over Brexit
Debating with European Council president Donald Tusk and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker the European Parliament largest political group leaders gave their support to the decisions taken by the EU heads of states and governments, concluding March 21-22 Summit to avoid a disorderly Brexit, giving additional opportunities to Theresa May government to avoid the UK departing from the bloc without…
Scottish independence vote depends on Brexit deal
Scottish First minister Nicola Sturgeon claims she would be able to make a judgment on whether to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence by the end of this year after the Brexit agreement between the UK and the European Union is concluded. Staying in the single market & the customs union would be "least…
Sturgeon for “the least bad” Brexit
Scotland’s government informed it wanted to meet all parties to work out “the least bad Brexit for Scotland,” arguing that the change in the political landscape made such talks necessary. The Edinburgh government, run by Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party (SNP), had argued that meant Scots should have a new vote on leaving the UK,…
Scottish votes lukewarm about independence
Nearly half of Scottish voters do not wish another referendum on independence. This issue appears to be attracting support for the Conservatives ahead of a June election, according to a YouGov poll published in The Times newspaper on Friday. The poll also showed Theresa May’s Conservatives due to win more seats in Scotland in the…
Scottiish voters unsupportive of second referendum
Most Scottish voters do not wish another referendum on independence from the United Kingdom and support for secession itself enfeebled, according to a Kantar survey. Scots voted by a wide margin to remain in the European Union in last June’s referendum, clashing with the UK as a whole which voted to leave. Scotland’s devolved government,…
Dasits: Brexit “bilateral” talks possible
Spanish foreign minister Alfonso Dastis Bexit negotiations would take place on two levels: the EU, and national competences. “Our negotiator is Michel Barnier. The Commission will negotiate for us in whatever capacity the EU has, – said Alfonso Dastis to a Spanish newspaper El País. “Then there are national competences: even there we believe that it is…
Scottish referendum would be "unfair"
The Scottish legislature in Edinburgh voted by a majority of 69 to 59 to give First Minister Nicola Sturgeon a mandate to formally seek permission from the British parliament in London to prepare for a referendum in late 2018 or early 2019. “The people of Scotland should have the right to choose between Brexit, possibly…
PM May for UK ‘precious union’
Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to fight for the “precious, precious union” of the United Kingdom, unveiling what she called her Plan for Britain with a warning to Scotland not to pursue its independence plans at the moment. May underlined she would negotiate a Brexit deal for the whole country but needed everyone to pull…
Sturgeon to banalise independence
Anna van Densky, OPNION Banalising independence referendum Scottish First minister Nicola Sturgeon has become a ‘false friend’ of the European Union, opening wide Pandora box of the disputed claims of national political elites in EU members eager to arrange the states of their own. The referendum, that was organized as a unique opportunity after 400 years…
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