Posts tagged with "European Union"

UK voters ‘should have final say if Brexit talks collapse’ Brexit

UK voters ‘should have final say if Brexit talks collapse’

August 10th, 2018 If Brexit talks break down without a deal, half of Britons believe the final decision over whether to leave the European Union should be taken by the public in a referendum, according to a survey of more than 10,000 people published on Friday. The YouGov poll, conducted July 31-Aug 7 and commissioned by the pro-referendum "People's...
Seehofer hard line threatens Merkel's fragile immigration truce Europe

Seehofer hard line threatens Merkel's fragile immigration truce

July 6th, 2018 Germany will have to go its own way on immigration if it cannot get other European Union states to sign up to migrant return deals, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in remarks that could shatter the fragile peace in Angela Merkel's government. Merkel's government teetered on the brink of collapse for much of last week as...
EU leaders unite over Trump tariffs, foreign investments Europe

EU leaders unite over Trump tariffs, foreign investments

June 29th, 2018 European Union leaders pledged on Friday to react firmly against protectionism and called for a new EU law to screen foreign investments, with Washington and Beijing clearly in mind. The leaders, meeting in Brussels for a crucial summit focused more on migration, said the US import tariffs imposed on EU steel and aluminium could...
Trump threatens 20 per cent tariff on European Union cars Americas

Trump threatens 20 per cent tariff on European Union cars

June 22nd, 2018 US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all European Union-assembled cars coming into the United States, a month after the administration launched an investigation into whether auto imports pose a national security threat. "If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be...
EU parliament urges Commission to act against Poland Europe

EU parliament urges Commission to act against Poland

June 14th, 2018 Five of the main political groups in the European Parliament urged the European Commission on Thursday to open infringement proceedings against Poland and to take it to the European Court of Justice to stop planned judicial reforms. The call by the leaders of the centre-right European People's Party, the centrist Liberals, the...
Dutch PM Rutte urges EU to cut CO2 emissions by more Europe

Dutch PM Rutte urges EU to cut CO2 emissions by more

June 13th, 2018 Europe needs to reduce its carbon emissions by more than currently planned to limit global warming as agreed under the Paris climate agreement, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the European Parliament on Wednesday. The European Union aims to reduce carbon emissions, which scientists hold responsible for global warming, by at least...
EU states must recognise foreign same-sex marriages - court Europe

EU states must recognise foreign same-sex marriages - court

June 5th, 2018 The EU's top court, in a landmark ruling for gay rights in Europe, said on Tuesday that Romania must grant residence to the American husband of a local man even though Romania does not itself permit same-sex marriage. In a case which has highlighted social differences between western Europe and a more conservative, ex-communist...
Merkel, Macron meet to plot eurozone reform road map (Update) Europe

Merkel, Macron meet to plot eurozone reform road map (Update)

April 19th, 2018 Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a spirit of compromise on reforming the eurozone at a meeting on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron, who pressed for solidarity among members of the currency union. Before starting talks, the two leaders said they would present a united front at June's meeting of European Union leaders...
Green Line Regulation creating 'underground economy', Sek union says Cyprus

Green Line Regulation creating 'underground economy', Sek union says

April 18th, 2018 Sek union wants the government to demand the EU review the 2004 Green Line regulation that provides the rules for trade across the divide because it was “reaching worrying proportions”, it said on Wednesday. In its announcement, Sek refers to a massive fuel market involving trucks and other commercial vehicles “with the result...
Juncker: Western Balkans need EU path to prevent new wars Main

Juncker: Western Balkans need EU path to prevent new wars

April 17th, 2018 The European Union needs to accept new members from the Western Balkans to avoid the risk of a new war there, the EU's chief executive said on Tuesday, setting up a possible clash with France and Germany which have resisted further enlargement. The European Commission is pushing for the EU to expand into a region which is still...
Greek PM Tsipras tells cabinet to finish bailout marathon Greece

Greek PM Tsipras tells cabinet to finish bailout marathon

April 3rd, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged his ministers on Tuesday to intensify reform efforts as the country heads towards the anticipated conclusion of a three-year bailout programme in August. "There is no time for complacency, but we must intensify efforts to finish the marathon," he told a meeting of his cabinet. Athens is...
Nicosia will not expel Russian diplomats, spokesman says Cyprus

Nicosia will not expel Russian diplomats, spokesman says

March 27th, 2018 Cyprus will not expel Russian diplomats in line with actions taken to do so in the EU and the US, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromos told the Cyprus News Agency. Prodromou was asked to comment on European Council President Donald Tusk’s announcement regarding the decision of 14 EU Member States to expel Russian diplomats as...
Remove barriers to membership talks, Turkey tells EU (Update) Turkey

Remove barriers to membership talks, Turkey tells EU (Update)

March 26th, 2018 Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said he will seek the removal at a summit with the EU on Monday of all obstacles to a stalled membership bid, which the bloc however believes are of Ankara's own making. Criticism from European Union governments of what many view as Erdogan's growing authoritarianism at home and his intervention in...
EU leaders host Turkish President Erdogan for uneasy summit Turkey

EU leaders host Turkish President Erdogan for uneasy summit

March 26th, 2018 The European Union holds an uneasy summit with Turkey on Monday, when it is likely to provide Ankara with fresh cash to extend a deal on Syrian refugees but deflect Turkish demands for deeper trade ties and visa-free travel to Europe. With the bloc critical of what it considers to be Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's growing...
Limassol in 8th place among 56 cities for methamphetamine use Cyprus

Limassol in 8th place among 56 cities for methamphetamine use

March 25th, 2018 Limassol has been ranked in 8th place out of 56 European cities for use of methamphetamines, twice as high as Nicosia, according to a study of wastewater samples taken by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The sewerage water in the cities concerned was tested in March 2017 for cocaine, amphetamine,...
Creditors repeat urge for reforms Cyprus

Creditors repeat urge for reforms

March 23rd, 2018 Cyprus needs to take advantage of the current higher-than-expected economic growth to promote structural reforms that will help reduce risks to its financial system and public finances and improve its competitiveness, bailout supervisors said. Last month’s presidential elections which gave President Nicos Anastasiades a new mandate,...
President lauds EU solidarity over Turkey (Updated) Cyprus

President lauds EU solidarity over Turkey (Updated)

March 23rd, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday welcomed the strong expression of solidarity from the European Union after the 28 member states called on Turkey to stop all illegal activity in the Republic of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and normalise its relations with Nicosia. Anastasiades, who is in Brussels attending the spring...
EU: Trump putting ‘gun to our head’ over tariffs (Update) Europe

EU: Trump putting ‘gun to our head’ over tariffs (Update)

March 23rd, 2018 European Union leaders called on US President Donald Trump on Friday to make permanent an EU exemption from US metal import duties, saying they reserved the right to respond "in a proportionate manner" to protect the bloc's interests. The 40-day exemption granted by Washington was like US President Donald Trump "putting a gun to our...
PM May welcomes confirmed EU Brexit transition offer Brexit

PM May welcomes confirmed EU Brexit transition offer

March 23rd, 2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May welcomed on Friday the approval by European Union leaders of a 21-month transition period to help business adapt after Brexit, telling the bloc to ride the "new dynamic" in looming trade talks. EU leaders also formally adopted on Friday their joint negotiating stance on a future trade relationship...
EU leaders receive positive news on Trump tariffs Europe

EU leaders receive positive news on Trump tariffs

March 22nd, 2018  European Union leaders gave a cautious welcome on Thursday to news that US President Donald Trump had decided not to apply tariffs to European steel and aluminium but said they were waiting for Washington to confirm that decision. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had earlier told a Senate committee hearing that Trump had...
EU leaders condemn Turkish actions in Mediterranean gas standoff Cyprus

EU leaders condemn Turkish actions in Mediterranean gas standoff

March 22nd, 2018 By Gabriela Baczynska European Union leaders will condemn what they see as Turkey's illegal actions in a standoff over eastern Mediterranean gas reserves with bloc members Greece and Cyprus, in a joint statement to be issued on Thursday. Athens and Nicosia have accused Ankara of violating international law in a row over offshore...
Britain's new Brexit passport to be made in France (Updated) World

Britain's new Brexit passport to be made in France (Updated)

March 22nd, 2018   By Costas Pitas The new blue British passports that Prime Minister Theresa May called "an expression of our independence and sovereignty" after Brexit will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm, the boss of the British company which lost the contract said on Thursday. May announced in December that Britain, which adopted...
EU trade chief hopeful of exemption from Trump tariffs Europe

EU trade chief hopeful of exemption from Trump tariffs

March 22nd, 2018 European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom expressed cautious optimism on Thursday that US President Donald Trump would exempt the European Union from import tariffs to be imposed on steel and aluminium. The United States is set to begin charging import duties of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium on Friday, although...
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