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.'
A gang of young people, mainly teenagers, pushes prostitutes into Brussels and demands money to 'protect' them. As soon as the prostitutes do not pay, they become victims of cynical harassment with far-reaching consequences.
An annual opinion on the state of the rule of law and democracy in each of the EU countries will not be forthcoming for the time being. The European Parliament made an appeal two years ago at the request of D66 European Parliamentarian Sophie in 't Veld to set up such a review, but the European Commission and the member states are abolishing the boat, as it turned out in a debate in Strasbourg.
In Poland, the polling stations open Sunday for local and regional elections. The elections are an important indicator of the popularity of the government of the conservative party Justice and Justice (PiS), which regularly conflicts with the European Union.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte encouraged other Member States at the EU summit in Brussels to export fewer arms to Saudi Arabia. The Lower House had urged him to insist on this after the disappearance of the critical Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Cyber attacks can be taken quickly against people or organizations involved in cyber attacks. At their summit in Brussels, the EU heads of government commissioned a sanction system to be developed. The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and a few other countries had insisted on this.
The two leaders of the Italian coalition government are talking about plans in the controversial budget of the country. But Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stressed on Thursday in Brussels that there is no break in the government team. Conte has become a government leader as a neutral figure and not a member of a party.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May does not reject the idea of extending the transitional period after the Brexit. According to her it could be 'a few months', but she stressed that this extra time is not expected to be necessary.
The 27 EU leaders are giving their brexit negotiator Michel Barnier more time to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom on the divorce and future relationship with the European Union. On a special 'brexit top' in Brussels, the Frenchman convinced the 27 that a deal with calm and patience is possible but that the time is not yet fully ripe.
The EU leaders hold their annual autumn summit in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, which actually consists of three summits. With two of them, about the brexit and the euro, the British Prime Minister Theresa May is not welcome. As the bird in a cuckoo clock, she will appear and disappear at set times.
The EU needs more time to reach an agreement on the Brexit with the United Kingdom. 'In the coming weeks, we will take a calm and serious time to achieve the decisive progress we need in the negotiations,' said EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on arrival in Luxembourg. There he talks to the EU ministers about the developments in the approaching separation of the British.
The Italian cabinet has approved its own budget for 2019 on Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said. The document is now being sent to Brussels where the European Commission will look into it. Conte told reporters that the budget 'keeps our promises while keeping the public accounts in order.'
The ambassadors of 27 EU members minus Great Britain have been told that there will be no Brexit agreement on Sunday. EU officials thus contradict an earlier report that the Brexit negotiators would have reached an agreement on the departure of Great Britain from the EU on Sunday. The Politico website reported that on the basis of information from three EU diplomats.
The votes in municipal elections in Belgium have not yet been counted everywhere, but in Antwerp mayor Bart de Wever and his N-VA can continue to rule the city with the Christian Democratic CD \u0026 amp; V and the liberal Open VLD. The coalition provided some, but retains the majority of board seats in the port city.
Belgians cast their vote on Sunday in municipal and provincial elections. They are the first polls since 2014 and are seen as an important indicator for the parliamentary elections in May next year. Approximately 8.2 million Belgians can vote for municipal councils and in Flanders and Wallonia also for provincial councils.
Jean-Claude Juncker thinks that the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán no longer belongs in the European People's Party (EPP), the Christian Democratic group in the European Parliament. The President of the European Commission tells French newspaper Le Monde that he also made Orbán clear last month.
The Belgian police have dismantled a large criminal organization on suspicion of human smuggling and trade in false identity papers. 33 suspects were arrested in house searches across the country, reports the Public Prosecution Service.
An agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom on the brexit is within reach. That said EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier at a meeting of the European Chambers of Commerce in Brussels. Next week on Wednesday, EU leaders without Prime Minister Theresa May decide whether there is sufficient reason to approve an agreement.
The Flemish government must make a plan within a year for better air quality in the entire region, otherwise a penalty of 1000 euros per day will be imposed. The court in Brussels determined that in a case that Greenpeace had filed.
The Italian economy remains 'in an unacceptable way' and at least seventeen million Italians have therefore come into great difficulties. This is what the Treasury Secretary Giovanni Tria said on Tuesday in the margins of a session with the Parliament's Finance Committee.
The greatest exercise of NATO since the end of the Cold War starts in Norway at the end of this month. Because an extra American aircraft carrier with 6,000 people participates, the total number of participants comes to 50,000, said the American admiral James Foggo at a press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
The Italian interest rate has risen sharply on Monday to the highest level since February 2014. Investors are worried after the European Commission, after consultation, sharply criticized the latest budget plans that allow the deficit to rise against agreements.
