Posts tagged with "European Union"

Europe: Déjà Vu? Opinion

Europe: Déjà Vu?

January 20th, 2019 By Desmond Smith IN THE harrowing opening scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood masterpiece, Saving Private Ryan, sea-sick US troops nervously approach the shores of occupied France, vomiting over the sides of their landing boats. They come under a hail of enemy fire and see their fellow men get blown to smithereens. Upon the...
Back my Brexit deal and let Britain 'turn a corner,' says May Brexit

Back my Brexit deal and let Britain 'turn a corner,' says May

January 2nd, 2019 British Prime Minister Theresa May urged lawmakers on Monday to back her Brexit deal, promising that it would allow the country to "turn a corner" and let the government focus on solving domestic problems such as housing and a skill shortage. May made the appeal in a New Year's message little more than two weeks before a make-or-break...
British minister warns Brexit is stuck as no-deal Brexit

British minister warns Brexit is stuck as no-deal

December 15th, 2018 Britain's exit from the European Union was heading for an impasse, one senior minister said on Saturday, after a week in which Prime Minister Theresa May failed to win EU assurances on her deal and pulled a vote because UK lawmakers would defeat it. With just over 100 days until Britain leaves the bloc on March 29,Brexit remains up...
UNic workshop on the EU’s role in public dialogue School news

UNic workshop on the EU’s role in public dialogue

December 4th, 2018 How interested were the candidates in the 2018 presidential elections over the future course of the European Union? This was the focus of the event ‘The EU Position in the Cyprus Dialogue’, which was successfully organised by the Cyprus Centre for European and International Affairs and the Department of Political Science and...
Brexit deal ‘fair, balanced’, ‘no better one available’ (Update) Britain

Brexit deal ‘fair, balanced’, ‘no better one available’ (Update)

November 19th, 2018 Germany and other European Union states told Britain on Monday their draft Brexit agreement could not be renegotiated. British Prime Minister Theresa May is battling at home to keep the last week's deal alive and push it through the British parliament amid criticism from pro-Brexit politicians, Northern Ireland's unionists and...
EU countries want more time in clock change debate Europe

EU countries want more time in clock change debate

October 29th, 2018 European Union governments began discussions on Monday to assess whether and when to scrap the twice-yearly clock change, amid doubts the requirement would be dropped in 2019 as the EU executive has proposed. Last month, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced a plan to stop changing Europe's clocks next year,...
Ireland border issue remains major stumbling block on Brexit Brexit

Ireland border issue remains major stumbling block on Brexit

October 19th, 2018 European Union negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday a Brexit deal with the United Kingdom was 90 per cent done, although there was still a chance no accord would be reached due to ongoing stumbling blocks over the Irish border. "Ninety per cent of the accord on the table has been agreed with Britain," Barnier told France Inter...
Turkey's Erdogan, in Berlin, pledges EU visa push Turkey

Turkey's Erdogan, in Berlin, pledges EU visa push

September 28th, 2018 Turkey aims to win easier access to the European Union for its citizens, President Tayyip Erdogan said in Berlin on Friday. On the second day of a state visit aimed at patching cracks in Turkey's relationship with Germany and the EU, Erdogan said his government would move to meet the EU's criteria for achieving visa...
Pressure mounts on May as critics tear into her Brexit plan Brexit

Pressure mounts on May as critics tear into her Brexit plan

September 3rd, 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy means disaster for Britain, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said, as critics at home and officials in Brussels step up their opposition to her plans for how to leave the European Union. With under two months before Britain and the EU want to agree a deal to end over 40 years of...
As EU divisions deepen, Macron stakes out electoral turf Europe

As EU divisions deepen, Macron stakes out electoral turf

August 31st, 2018 Emmanuel Macron's strategy for next year's European elections is taking shape and the French president sees it in stark terms - an open battle between anti-immigrant nationalists on the one hand and pro-EU 'progressives' on the other. During a tour of Nordic countries this week, he was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by...
EU: clock is running out on summer-winter time change (Update) Europe

EU: clock is running out on summer-winter time change (Update)

August 31st, 2018 The European Union said on Friday it would propose a legal change that would end the ritual of switching between summer and winter time, leaving it up to governments across the bloc to agree on whether to permanently use summer time or winter time. The proposal comes after a survey found 84 pe rcent of 4.6 million citizens across the...
France: EU needs strategic relationship with Russia on defence Europe

France: EU needs strategic relationship with Russia on defence

August 30th, 2018 The European Union needs a strategic relationship with Turkey, including in defence matters, and should modernise its post-Cold War relations with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. Macron is a strong advocate for a Europe that is able to defend its strategic interests and financial independence and respond to...
EU's Barnier says must prepare for a 'no-deal' Brexit Brexit

EU's Barnier says must prepare for a 'no-deal' Brexit

August 30th, 2018 The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday the bloc must prepare for a no-deal Brexit, even if its goal was an orderly exit. The EU needed to be well prepared for everything, Barnier said, telling German broadcaster Deutschlandfunk: “That includes the no-deal scenario.” He said the issue of...
Italy threatens to cut EU funding over Catania migrant standoff Europe

Italy threatens to cut EU funding over Catania migrant standoff

August 24th, 2018  Italy's government threatened on Friday to withhold next year's contributions to the EU budget if Brussels failed to resolve a standoff over the fate of immigrants stranded for four days in an Italian port. The around 150 mostly Eritrean migrants are being held in the port of Catania on board the Diciotti, an Italian ship that...
EU unlikely to heed British call for more Russia sanctions Europe

EU unlikely to heed British call for more Russia sanctions

August 23rd, 2018 The European Union is unlikely to heed London's call for it to match the latest US sanctions against Moscow over an attack on a former Russian spy in Britain earlier this year, diplomats in Brussels said. Britain's foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, said in Washington this week the EU should step up pressure on Russia after the ex-spy...
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...
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