The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, must go back to the bloc’s leaders to change the terms of the talks because Britain’s parliament will not accept the current deal, British Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Sunday.
The number of deportees being expelled from Germany is continuing to decline, statistics by the country’s Interior Ministry suggest. While airlines are being blamed for hampering the process, police are reporting that assaults against officers carrying out deportations have become part of the job.
British foreign minister Dominic Raab will travel to Thailand on Wednesday to attend a meeting of 10 South East Asian countries, searching for new trading opportunities and stronger diplomatic ties ahead of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the “anti-democratic” Irish backstop must be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal.
The suspect behind the leak of confidential memos penned by former UK ambassador in Washington Kim Darroch last week has been identified, yet not named by UK police, local media reported on Sunday.
A European Vega rocket has been lost shortly after blast off, the commercial space company Arianespace says. It is the first time in 15 launches that a Vega rocket has failed.
Greeces centre-right opposition party New Democracy has won the nations snap general election. With most districts counted, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted defeat to his rival, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Friendship between Italy and Russia has high potential, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, noting that his recent talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin had helped strengthen bilateral relations.
European Union leaders agreed on Tuesday to name France’s Christine Lagarde as the new head of the European Central Bank and sealed a deal on filling the EU’s other top four jobs after marathon talks that have exposed deep divisions in the bloc.
A European Commission investigation into a high-profile One Belt, One Road project could slow the initiatives momentum at the EU border. The probe is focused on a section of a proposed Belgrade-Budapest highspeed railway that crosses into the EU.
European Union leaders meeting in Malta have agreed on a plan to reduce the flow of migrants from Libya. Libyas UN-backed government will receive ˆ200m ($215m, £171m), including funding to reinforce its coastguard.
Romanias prime minister insisted on Thursday (Feb 2) that the government will press ahead with decrees decriminalising certain corruption offences, defying the countrys biggest protests since the end of communism.
Britain will do its utmost to negotiate a divorce deal with the European Union that is mutually beneficial, Brexit minister David Davis said on Thursday, setting out the governments strategy in an official policy document.
Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic and Kosovos President Hashim Thaci had a phone conversation, in which they agreed to continue dialogue and to keep working on maintaining peace and stability, Serbian media reported Saturday.
