The plan to put an end to the biannual resistance of the clock next year will not receive the consent of the EU countries. The mandatory summer and winter time regulation will be abolished at the earliest in April 2021, can be seen from a progress report.
NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg urgently asked Monday to intercept the Sunday intercepted Ukrainian navy ships and the passengers. According to him there is no justification for the action of Moscow.
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 crew of the Belgian naval ship de Godetia was shocked by two Russian SU-24 bombers that flew low on Thursday morning in the Baltic Sea. The Godetia is currently the command ship of the NATO fleet of mine fighters in the north. The bombers wore rockets under their wings
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.
French motorists are so fed up with the striking and blocking rioters in France that they have started a counter-action.
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.
The blockades of fuel depots and motorways are expanding to Flanders. In Vilvoorde it is stuck around a warehouse.
The European Commission calls on the Member States to speed up the completion of the Digital Single Market, the Capital Market Union and the Banking Union.
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.
The French violent protest against the high (er) diesel prices is moving to Belgium. On Wednesday night, 'yellow vests' threw petrol bombs and stones on the Walloon motorways.
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.
(ANP) The European mission against human smuggling from Libya via the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be phased out shortly if EU countries fail to reach agreement on this so-called Operation Sophia.
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'.
There will be a transition period from 21 months to the end of December 2020, when the United Kingdom leaves the EU on 29 March next year. At that time, an agreement on the future relationship should be concluded between the Union and the UK, but this period may be extended if necessary.
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.
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.
Hungary must stop smear campaigns against those who express their views on the rule of law in the country. Minister Stef Blok (Foreign Affairs) asked the Hungarian Secretary of State Szabolcs Takacs (European Affairs) during a meeting on the situation in the country.
Filip Dewinter, head of the right-wing Vlaams Belang, is associated with an alleged Chinese spy. It was deported last year after the Belgian intelligence services found that the Flemish organization he worked for had tried to influence important decisions.
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.
