France putting EU at risk of hard Brexit for fishing rights Central Europe won’t benefit from

France rejected Hungary and Poland’s veto of the EU budget, but now plans to veto an EU deal with Britain. On Dec. 6, when Europe’s attention was focused on the risk of a Polish-Hungarian veto against the EU budget and … Read More

Sweden edges closer to NATO membership

posted in: European Union, News

Parliament voted in favor of the NATO option — allowing the country to join the alliance in future. In August, Sweden deployed troops to its Baltic island of Gotland following a security scare triggered by Russian warships | Tom Little/AFP via … Read More

Brexit: ‘just a few hours’ left for a trade agreement, EU negotiator warns

Chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. © Belga The EU and the UK have “just a few hours” left to reach a post-Brexit trade agreement, chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier warned on Friday. “We have very little time remaining,” Barnier … Read More

Israel, Jewish groups blast EU court ruling against kosher and halal slaughter

European Court of Justice says authorities can effectively ban religious ritual slaughter; Israeli Foreign Ministry says decision sends ‘a harsh message to all European Jewry’. Illustrative: A butcher in Jerusalem, April 26, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90) The European Court of Justice … Read More

CDU leadership candidate blames jobless total on influx of migrants

Three candidates to lead German conservative party hold TV debate. The three men are battling to replace Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as CDU leader | Bernd von Jutrczenka/Getty Images Friedrich Merz, one of the candidates to become leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic … Read More

Brexit talks: Barnier says deal ‘still possible’ as French minister slams UK ‘madness’

European Union’s negotiator Michel Barnier arrives for a meeting of the representatives of the Governments of the EU Member States, Brussels, December 14, 2020. The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said he still has the firm belief that a … Read More

Brexit: ‘Strong possibility’ of no trade deal with EU – PM

Boris Johnson says there is a “strong possibility” the UK will fail to strike a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. Speaking for the first time since a crunch meeting in Brussels, the PM said “now is the time” for firms … Read More

UK, Germany, France calls Iran nuclear moves ‘deeply worrying’

The U.K., Germany, and France on Monday released a statement calling recent moves by Iran in relation to its nuclear program “deeply worrying” — just as the fate of the 2015 nuclear deal, and the U.S. role in it, remains … Read More

Spain’s foreign minister on Brexit: ‘We need a deal’

Arancha González Laya said Brexit had demonstrated ‘the illusion of independence.’ Spain’s Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya | Pool photo by Andre Pain/AFP via Getty Images With Brexit negotiators now under orders to turn matters over to their political bosses, … Read More

Migrant Camp Built on Army Firing Range Could Be Giving Asylum Seekers Lead Poisoning

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Human Rights Watch has warned that is very likely there is lead in the soil of the camp housing former residents of the burned down Moria camp. When Greece’s notorious Moria migrant camp burned to the ground in September, its thousands of … Read More

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