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EU leaders approve tough terms for Brexit talks
EU leaders have approved negotiating guidelines for Britain’s exit from the bloc at a special summit in Brussels. Showing unity at a time of adversity, they say the fate of the million of citizens affected is their top priority. “We need...
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Brexit divorce turns nasty over German media leaks
The divorce between Britain and Brussels is getting nasty after a German newspaper reported last weeks Brexit talks were a disaster. On Wednesday, Michel Barnier will be given an initiate legal mandate to negotiate on behalf of the EU...
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MEPs mark World Press Freedom Day
MEPs have called for jailed journalists in Turkey to be freed. There are more than 120 reporters in prison there, says Amnesty International. The wife of an incarcerated cartoonist, Musa Kart, spoke at the European parliament. He is...
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EU’s Barnier warns against ‘painless’ Brexit ‘illusion
It is an “illusion” to think that Britain’s exit will be “concluded quickly and painlessly”, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday. “Some have created the illusion that Brexit would have no material impact on our lives or...
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European ‘history house’ opens this weekend
It was meant to have been open in 2014, but now the House of European History finally opens its doors to the public this weekend. The museum reportedly has a price tag of some 56 million euros. But those behind the project believe it can...
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Emmanuel Macron emerges winner of French presidential race
Emmanuel Macron graduated from one of the world’s most prestigous public administration universities. He later worked as an investment banker at Rothschild. Aged 29, he married a French high school teacher twenty-four years his senior....
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FN stronghold warns new French president on pro-EU stance
Henin-Beaumont, in the north of France close to the border with Belgium, is a National Front stronghold. More than 60 percent of voters there backed Le Pen, rejecting the pro-EU policies of president-elect Emmanuel Macron. “With this...
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EU congratulates Macron
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his victory. Speaking in Berlin, he said: “Now French also have to move towards others. There is no high speed train moving towards Paris while we are...
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Mexico and EU closing in on trade deal
Mexico and the EU expect to wrap up negotiations for a “http://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/good-progress-in-eu-mexico-trade-talks/”: new free trade agreement by end of 2017. It would replace the existing deal signed over...
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EU leaders agree Brexit negotiating guidelines
In a show of unity at a time of adversity, EU leaders have approved stiff negotiating guidelines for Brexit at a summit in Brussels. Meeting for the first time since British Prime Minister Theresa May formally triggered a two-year...
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Protest held against Hungary’s PM Orban
A group of demonstrators have held a protest outside the European Parliament as Hungarian PM Viktor Orban answered criticism from MEPs. Budapest is under fire for education reform that could close a foreign-backed university. “We are...
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Council of Europe urges Hungary to suspend laws on NGOs, universities
The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has called on Hungary to suspend a debate in the country’s parliament of bills which tighten rules on non-governmental organisations and foreign universities. The two bills, drafted by Prime...
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EU officials stand firm ahead of Brexit meeting
EU officials are talking tough ahead of a forthcoming Brexit summit. The 27 governments say they are more united than ever ahead of Saturday’s meeting to adopt the bloc’s negotiating guidelines. Michel Barnier, the European Commission’s...
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Germany opposes ending Turkey EU talks
Germany on Friday rejected demands to halt Turkey’s bid to join the European Union, even as some EU states said Ankara’s membership dream was dead after Turks voted to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and every other future president...
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Turkey-EU relations reaching a ‘crossroads’
Turkish voters go to the polls this Sunday. Nearly 55 million are eligible to take part in the referendum, on a revision of the constitution. Among other things, it would strengthen the powers of the president, a president who would have...
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French judges push for Le Pen to be stripped of immunity
French judges probing Marine Le Pen’s alleged misuse of EU funds to pay for party assistants, are pushing for her European parliamentary immunity to be lifted. It comes just days before the far-right leader faces the much anticipated...
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EU warns Turkey on death penalty ‘red line’
The European Commission wants Turkey to investigate “alleged irregularities” in Sunday’s referendum boosting the power of President Erdogan. Council of Europe observers say those irregularities could have changed the outcome of the vote....
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Syria’s Assad must ultimately go, says German foreign minister
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must ultimately go. That from Germany, as EU foreign ministers discussed the country’s future. The European Union is pushing for a political transition in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of people have...
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Fresh funding pledges for Syrian refugees expected at Brussels conference
International donors are expected to pledge billions more euros for Syrian refugees at a conference that has kicked off in Brussels. The European Union also wants to lay foundations for an eventual end to the Syria conflict, which has...
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Don’t be against us – plea of Syrian refugee family in Luxembourg
Just 16-thousand migrants have been moved from Italy and Greece under a controversial EU relocation scheme. Ali Alfauori, his wife, and two children, from Syria, are in that number.They were smuggled to Greece and now, many months after...
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Farage slams EU leaders as ‘gangsters’ over Brexit
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described EU leaders as “gangsters,” as the European Parliament adopted a resolution setting the red lines for the Brexit negotiations. Echoing recent draft guidelines, the Parliament wants talks on...
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MEPs call for infringement process against Hungary
Politicians across the European Parliament have denounced moves in Hungary, which could force out the Central European University – funded by George Soros – despite protests. A new law has been approved, which the right-wing government...
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Brexit: Tusk and May in ‘friendly’ meeting
Let’s try to ease tensions. That is apparently what European Council President Donald Tusk and British Prime Minister Theresa May have agreed to do when it comes to the upcoming Brexit talks. They have met in London, a meeting described...
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EU criticism mounts of Hungary’s crackdown on foreign universities
There is criticism from the European Commission’s president over controversial moves by Hungary’s prime minister to crackdown on foreign universities. A new law has been passed by Budapest’s parliament which could force out the Central...