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Brexit deal: What’s been agreed?
After all of the marathon debate and discussion here at the European Council in Brussels, finally Britain has sealed a deal on its EU reform demands. It is a deal Prime Minister David Cameron is hailing and eurosceptics are dismissing....
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U.K. referendum on staying in the EU to be held June 23
Prime Minister David Cameron vowed Saturday to lead the charge to keep Britain part of the EU
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European Commission won’t campaign for Britain to remain in EU
The European Commission has said it will not campaign for Britain to stay inside the EU. A spokesman for the EU executive said it would not play an active role in arguing for the United Kingdom to remain within the bloc. “The commission...
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UK-EU talks: Donald Tusk to lay out new reform proposals
President of the European Council Donald Tusk says he will present a proposal for a “new settlement” between the UK and the European Union on Tuesday, February 2. He spent Monday with British Prime Minister David Cameron trying to thrash...
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UK’s Cameron cool on EU’s reform offer
A sight of a Union Jack flying in Brussels might be a less regular event if the British Prime Minister’s EU reform drive doesn’t go his way. Officials gave British Prime Minister David Cameron a warm welcome as he arrived in Brussels for...
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Saving Schengen: MEPs call for stricter migration measures
MEPs are calling for stricter migration measures to save the Schengen zone. It is a turbulent time for the passport-free area. The migrant crisis has seen checks reintroduced on some borders, including just a few kilometres away from...
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VW scandal: EU deal allows vehicles to exceed pollution limits
EU politicians have backed a compromise deal which will allow vehicles to exceed official pollution limits. It flies in the face of calls for more radical reform in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions test scandal. The vote only...
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Cracks in European Parliament over draft deal for Britain
The draft deal to try and keep Britain in the EU has been on the agenda at a European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, where it has divided opinion. The President of the European Commission is hailing it as fair for all. “I have always...
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Bid to stop Zeebrugge becoming migrant magnet
Belgian police are cracking down on migrants arriving in Zeebrugge, with more than 450 people reportedly stopped in the port area over the past month. Some migrants are heading to the Belgian coast, to try and smuggle themselves on...
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China slowdown could scupper eurozone recovery: EU
The slowdown in emerging economies such as China could derail the eurozone’s fragile recovery, the European Commission said on Thursday. The single currency area is also facing pressures from an increased flow of migrants and instability...
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EU OK’s Portuguese government’s spending plans
Portugal’s new socialist government has seen its first ‘anti-austerity’ budget approved by the European commission. Since 2013, the EU executive has the power to monitor spending by eurozone countries. Portugal’s 2016 budget only got the...
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Cologne kicks over carnival season amid security fears
Cologne entered full party mode on Thursday as police stepped security following a series of robberies and sexual assaults on women over one month ago. An extra 2,500 police officers have been drafted in after the shocking events that...
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Poland moves to soothe tensions with the EU
The president of Poland has moved to boost his country’s battered reputation amid EU fears over the threat to the rule of law there. Officials are investigating new media and judicial reforms, but Andrzej Duda, who was in Brussels for...
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EU’s Mogherini urges world powers to broke Syria peace deal at Geneva talks
The EU’s top diplomat urged world powers to seize the chance to end Syria’s five-year conflict at peace talks in Geneva next week. Federica Mogherini said the international community should focus on the humanitarian cost to ordinary...
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Polish PM rebuffs EU criticism of media laws
Poland’s prime minister has rebuffed EU criticism of her government’s media and judicial reforms. Beata Szyldo told MEPs that changes to the country’s constitutional court and how state media operates were an internal matter. “Sometimes...
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Polish PM to face MEPs
Poland’s prime minister Beata Szydło is to face MEP’s later amid concerns over the state of the rule of law there. It looks set to be quite a showdown. The head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, compared the situation there to a...
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Dutch PM Rutte warns EU ‘running out of time’ on refugee crisis
The Dutch government has warned the EU that time is running out to find a solution to Europe’s refugee crisis. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the bloc should look to drastically cut the number of arrivals over the next two months. “Let...
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EU urges VW to compensate European ‘dieselgate’ customers
The EU executive has called on Volkswagen to compensate European customers affected by the firm’s diesel scandal. VW is offering compensation to tens of thousands of American owners, angry about “defeat devices” it used to masked...
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EU auditors slam ‘weak’ Commission over bailouts
The European Commission’s handling of some bailouts for crisis-hit countries was “generally weak” and inconsistent, according to a new report published on Tuesday. That was the assessment of the European Court of Auditors, which is in...
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Report claims of link between animal health and GM crops
A new report has pointed to possible long-term health problems in cows fed with genetically modified-corn. Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini based his findings on analysing the health of seventy cows over the period of five years. He says...
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EU seeks greater powers to police car industry after VW row
EU regulators want more powers to fine carmakers for faulty vehicles after the Volkswagen scandal. They want to be able to fine companies 30,000 euros per faulty car. VW had been found using special technology to cheat on emissions...
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EU warns Greece over border controls
The European Commission has said that Greece has “seriously neglected” its frontier duties to Europe’s free-travel Schengen zone. It said that Greece had failed to implement an effective identification and registration process for...
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Europe running out of time to solve refugee crisis, warns EU’s Timmermans
Europe does not have “endless amounts of time” to come up with a solution to the influx of refugees and migrants to the continent, a top EU official warned on Thursday. Frans Timmermans, a former Dutch foreign minister, is the European...
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Pushing back refugee boats would be illegal, says Greek minister
euronews’ Efi Koutsokosta spoke to Greece’s EU affairs minister, Nikos Xydakis, about an EU report that accuses Athens of failing to register refugees and migrants properly. Speaking from the Greek capital, Xydakis said it would be an...