The euro area finance ministers (Eurogroup) support the European Commission in its approach to Italy. This is stated in a statement that the Eurogroup will release on Monday, insiders say. Ministers call on the Italian government to take the necessary steps to bring its draft budget for 2019 in line with the European rules, otherwise a criminal procedure is justified.
A protest march for a better climate policy has mobilized about 65,000 people in Brussels. The attendance figure is an estimate of the Belgian police. The procession moved from the North Station in the capital to the Cinquantenaire, where speeches and performances were held.
In Brussels, about a hundred activists protest against the excise and taxes of the government. Because of the spontaneous demonstration, three tunnels are closed towards the center of the city.
The British Parliament will vote on the brexit deal of Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday 11 December. This is evident from the timetable for the crucial debate on the agreement with Brussels that was put on Twitter by a Business Insider reporter on Monday.
The Italian government is finally giving concrete signals that it adheres to the Brussels requirement for further reduction of the Italian budget deficit. The usually eagerly provocative deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, also Minister of the Interior and Lega leader, announced for the first time that this requirement is negotiable.
Government officials from Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine come together in Berlin on Monday to find a solution to the conflict over the Ukrainian ships that the Russians have seized. A German government spokesman has reported this. Shortly before, Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas had called on Russia and Ukraine to stop the quarrel.
A round by the British Parliament makes it clear that at the moment there is no majority for the Brexit agreement concluded yesterday in Brussels. But in the wildly popular betting offices the chance of this is still estimated at 50/50.
The use of 1 and 2 euro cent coins is also coming to an end in Belgium. Cash payments at the cash register must be completed on December 1st next year, the government decided on Friday.
Everything is being prepared in Brussels to take another major hurdle on Sunday in the Brexit negotiations. The EU and the United Kingdom have agreed on the starting points how their future relationship should look like.
London and Brussels have reached an agreement in principle on the political declaration setting out how the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom should look after the Brexit. That is what EU President Donald Tusk reports on Twitter.
In their consultations on the Brexit agreement, British Prime Minister Theresa May and President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission have made progress Wednesday, but there is still work to be done before there is a final plan. This was what May and an EU spokesperson said after the meeting in Brussels.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May may shake hands in Brussels from her now EU colleagues after they have mutually stamped the negotiated Brexit agreement. May is expected at 11:00 am in the Europage building where the special Brexittop will be held. The 27 EU heads of government, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will start their meeting at 10 a.m.
The man who injured an agent on Tuesday morning at the Brussels coal market in a mes attack, was on trial leave. He was stuck for attempted manslaughter. He was allowed to test while the Belgian Public Prosecution Service issued a negative recommendation.
Two Belgian police officers were stabbed in Brussels on Tuesday morning and wounded. That reports the newspaper La Dernière Heure. Witnesses told the newspaper that the perpetrator called 'allahu akbar'.
Germany has imposed an entry ban on eighteen Saudi's. They are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist lived and worked in the US and was very critical of the Saud family clan that rules Saudi Arabia.
Like a lover who feels betrayed. For example, many Italians experience the current crisis with Brussels. That quarrel is striking because if one country has always been pro-EU, it is Italy, one of the founders of the Union. But the chilly communication from Brussels that the fairy-tale budget of 'de Laars' can not get under way is hard to come by.
If 'crazy things' do not happen, EU President Donald Tusk gets the 28 EU leaders to Brussels on Sunday, November 25 to mark a Brexit deal at the highest level. He said Thursday morning in a statement together with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, who handed Tusk a copy of the agreement in principle. According to Barnier, negotiations have entered 'a decisive phase'.
The EU and the United Kingdom have agreed on the conditions for the departure of the British from the EU. The European Commission has released the text of the 585-page agreement in principle, immediately after Prime Minister Theresa May in London announced that her cabinet is supporting the preliminary agreement and a declaration on the future relationship.
Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalni is allowed to travel to Russia. He stated that on the internet on Wednesday. The dissident was stopped at Moscow airport on Tuesday when he wanted to get on the plane. He was on his way to Strasbourg to attend the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in his case.
The Belgian police are looking for someone who almost died during the last Ramadan because he had something to drink on the street.
For months, the British have been able to stumble over their favorite Brexit model, but now they have to show the back of their tongue. After all, the negotiators are out. An agreement of around 500 pages has been concluded in Brussels describing an orderly departure from the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Italy does not differ from its budget plans submitted earlier in Brussels. The Italian government wants to spend a lot more money than according to the agreements and explicitly seeks the confrontation.
The British vice-minister Jo Johnson van Transport, like his brother Boris, is giving in to dissatisfaction with the Brexit negotiations. He announced on Friday that he is stepping down because he can not support the agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May wants to conclude with the European Union.
Former stock market guru Jean-Pierre Van Rossem from Flanders was found guilty of forgery, money laundering, tax fraud and fraud. The court in Brussels put the 73-year-old former politician Friday two years imprisonment after a three-year requirement, report Flemish media.
The Public Prosecution Service in Brussels demands twelve to forty months in prison against eight people who have given shelter to refugees. According to the prosecutor's office, they knowingly and knowingly helped people smugglers. They themselves say they only wanted to help people who had fled war zones.
British customs officers are allowed to start their work in factories at that time in factories exporting to Ireland and in Irish and Northern Irish shops. In this way an official border between Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit can be prevented.
Most EU countries, including the Netherlands, want to postpone the Brussels plan to put an end to the biannual resistance of the clock next year. A majority of Member States also believe that as many countries as possible should choose the same standard time as the current scheme disappears.
UPDATE- German chancellor Angela Merkel stops after eighteen years as chairman of her conservative CDU party. She also does not stand as a chancellor after 2021 and she does not aspire to a position in Brussels, German media write. The search for possible successors at the DCU starts immediately; a former rival of Merkel is a candidate.
The strike at baggage handler Aviapartner at Zaventem airport near Brussels continues on Sunday. Hours of negotiations between the management and trade unions have not led to a breakthrough. The parties continue on Sunday.
French President Emmanuel Macron regrets that Belgium has opted for the American F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter or JSF) as successor to the F-16, and not for the Typhoon of the European consortium Eurofighter. 'Strategically, this decision goes against European interests,' Macron said during a visit to Slovakia. 'I regret the choice that has been made.'
