The EU and Albania have signed an agreement on cooperation and the deployment of the European Border and Coast Guard Frontex in Albania to combat illegal migration and cross-border crime. With the permission of the government, Frontex can also take action on Albanian territory if necessary.
In the mail room of the Pentagon, outside the main building of the department, two packets have been intercepted that presumably contain the deadly poison ricin. According to the American media, the addressees were Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Admiral John Richardson. The FBI initiates an investigation and analyzes the content.
With the decision of the British government to leave the European Union, London has cost around € 560 million per week since then. This is stated in a study published on Sunday by the Center for European Reform. The center assumes, among other things, that the British economy is now 2.5 percent smaller in size than if a majority of voters voted for EU membership in 2016.
It is the favorite party game among journalists, diplomats and many others who work in the Brussels bubble. Who will be the successor of President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker? Can the Social Democrats and liberals upset the Christian Democrats?
A congress of people from the financial sector in the building of National Bank in Brussels was disrupted by alarm clocks on Thursday. Six alarm clocks went off simultaneously in the hall that mimicked the sound of a ticking time bomb, reports the Public Prosecution Service.
The Belgian queen Paola was fired Thursday afternoon from the Sint-Lucas hospital in Brussels. The 81-year-old mother of King Filip was there on Wednesday for medical examination.
The British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will meet with EU negotiator Michel Barnier on the planned departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union on Thursday, British media reported.
The British opposition party Labor is in favor of a new referendum on the Brexit, including the possibility to vote in favor of EU membership. This has Labor spokesman Keir Starmer who has the brexit in his portfolio, at the party congress in Liverpool said.
The British opposition party Labor has emphasized that it will vote against any arrangement on the brexit that does not meet all the requirements of the party. A Labor spokesman said this Monday at the Labor Congress in Liverpool, while British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to save her Brexit plan.
Premier May has threatened with harsh words not to make an agreement with the European Union about a Brexit. She demands a new proposal from Brussels, which is not flexible and would show too little respect for the British referendum result to leave the EU.
Europe and Asia can better connect, not only with better transport links, but also in the digital and energy fields. The European Commission presented Wednesday a strategy that should give the connections between both continents a boost.
EU President Donald Tusk wants a special brexit summit in Brussels in November. He writes this to the EU leaders who are meeting this week in Salzburg, Austria. Tusk warns of a 'disaster' if the United Kingdom leaves the EU next year without agreements about the divorce and the future relationship.
A cop with a knife was stabbed in Brussels Monday morning. He was slightly injured. The attacker was shot by the police. He was hit in the chest and leg, according to the parquet.
No car could be seen in dozens of Belgian city centers. Among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Kortrijk and Mechelen participated in Autoloze Zondag. 'By car-free streets, cities and municipalities are not only more livable, but sustainable transport is also good for the environment and health', according to the organizers. In Brussels, the entire public transport was free on Sundays.
Hungary receives support from neighboring Austria. The European Parliament wants the European Union to use the toughest criminal proceedings against Hungary. This can ultimately ensure that Hungary loses its voting rights in Europe. However, the Austrian populist government party FPÖ doubts whether the process has gone according to the rules.
A masked man walked into a school in Brussels around 2 pm on Monday to threaten students with a firearm. That reports the newspaper La Dernière Heure. The Brussels public prosecutor's office confirms the news and has opened an investigation.
The government must report to Brussels no later than March next year whether the Netherlands will switch to permanent summer or winter time in 2019. The European Commission is putting an end to the half-yearly clocking in the EU, said President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual policy speech.
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The Polish government has once again sent judges of the Supreme Court to retirement. Twelve magistrates had reached the recently reduced retirement age and had asked President Andrzej Duda to stay on. Five of them are allowed to stay, seven others are not allowed to do so without giving a reason.
Belgians are in great embarrassment now that it appears that a compatriot may be responsible for 110 beheadings in Syria.
Boris Johnson still does not have a good word for the Brexit policy of British Prime Minister Theresa May. The former Minister of Foreign Affairs went into an article in the Mail on Sunday with two outstretched legs to write that the May government has 'laid a bomb belt around the constitution of the United Kingdom and has handed over the igniter to (EU) negotiator) Michael Barnier. '
The group leader of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, wants to become the next President of the European Commission. The 46-year-old German announced his official candidacy on behalf of the European People's Party (EPP) via Twitter.
A driver of the Brussels public transport company STIB has been dismissed. Not because he did not function well, but because he proudly showed his neo-Nazi tattoos at a staff party. On his arm stands '88' tattooed, which stands for Heil Hitler.
Britain and the European Union publicly declare that they want to close a Brexit deal in the next seven weeks. Behind the scenes, however, high staff on both sides indicate that this is highly unlikely. They are now aiming for an agreement about the divorce in the middle of November, say anonymous sources.
King Filip interrupts his summer vacation for a visit to Spa. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, a policeman was killed in a shooting. Filip goes to Spa on Sunday afternoon with the Minister of the Interior, Jan Jambon.
The European aid of € 18 million to Iran gives 'the wrong message, at the wrong time.' That is what the American special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, who calls on Brussels to help the United States end to the Iranian threat.
Dozens of young migrants have after a few days left the Italian coast guard ship in the port of Catania. The nearly thirty minors left the ship from Wednesday to Thursday, reports Italian media. The adults must stay on board.
An Italian coast guard ship with 177 rescued migrants on board has arrived in the port of Catania. However, migrants are only allowed to disembark if other EU member states are prepared to receive them, say sources within the Ministry of the Interior against ANSA news agency.
In different countries, the victims of terrorist attacks are commemorated on a global scale for the first time on Tuesday. This takes place on the 'international day of commemoration of and tribute to the victims of terrorism' that falls on August 21st every year. The global day of remembrance was created with a UN resolution in December last year.
Two activists from the feminist protest group Femen have damaged a carpet of flowers in Brussels. They did so during a protest against the detention of a migrant family in a closed center. A Serbian mother is sitting there with her four children in anticipation of their expulsion to Serbia.
