NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg calls on member states that spend less than 2 percent of their national income on defense to make extra efforts to achieve that goal. In addition to the US, last...
The toll for passenger cars that Germany intends to introduce is not discriminatory for foreign motorists. An important adviser to the European Court of Justice, Advocate General...
A 29-year-old Dutchman turns out to have knocked down another tourist (28) in an Austrian pub in the evening. The victim from Luxembourg was in the face several times...
The Italian government has agreed with some other European countries to include the 47 migrants on the controversial ship the Sea-Watch 3. The ship is already five days just before...
A man has been ridden in Luxembourg with his car on a group of pedestrians. In addition, the driver's two-year-old son was killed and four people were injured, including a second child. The…
A make-up artist who, among others, has the Belgian Queen Mathilde as a customer, has been arrested in Brussels on suspicion of theft. The man would have been arrested in Schaerbeek and by the Luxembourg...
There will be a little more clarity next week about whether the United Kingdom can unilaterally decide to withdraw the announced departure from the EU. The most important adviser to the European Court of Justice will give an opinion on Tuesday. The court often follows such advice.
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.
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.
Despite the alarming report from the UN climate panel IPCC, the European Union is not tightening its objectives for the time being. The EU environment ministers were distributed during consultations in Luxembourg, but left open the possibility for tightening.
The European Parliament was entitled to refuse access to documents on the expenses of MEPs. The European Court of Justice ruled that in a case that a group of journalists from all 28 EU countries had filed.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg should also keep the same time zone in the future. The prime ministers Mark Rutte, Charles Michel and Xavier Bettel agree in principle on this, after a short consultation of the three in the margins of an EU summit in Salzburg. They want to gauge the residents' preferences for the introduction of summer or winter time as standard time.
The forthcoming departure of the United Kingdom from the EU does not mean that the other Member States no longer have to surrender suspects. A European arrest warrant issued by the British must simply be executed.
The Italian government is enraged by the Italian clothing manufacturer Luciano Benetton in connection with the collapsed Morandi bridge in Genoa. This is the owner of the A10 at Genoa and the Morandi bridge after the motorways in Italy were privatized in 1999.
The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has given his British colleague Theresa May a shirt of 'his' national football team, nicknamed the Red Devils. He did so in Brussels just before the start of an important EU summit. The shirt is to the great laughter of the other EU leaders and May itself number 10, the house number of Mays official residence in Downingstreet in London. England and Belgium play against each other on Thursday-evening.
The Netherlands and other European countries are concerned about the development of the rule of law in Poland. The Polish Minister of European Affairs Konrad Szymanski will be asked questions about this in Luxembourg on Tuesday by his EU colleagues.
If Macedonia has solved the name issue with Greece and continues as Northern Macedonia, the European Commission sees no objections to start negotiations with the Balkan country on accession to the EU. Before the European foreign ministers decide on further enlargement Tuesday in Luxembourg, the Macedonian minister Nikola Dimitrov makes one final appeal to the Netherlands not to block the accession talks.
After the recent tightening of the arms embargo against Myanmar, the European Union is now also imposing sanctions against seven members of the (border) police because of their involvement in serious human rights violations in the Asian country. Their bank balances in the EU are frozen and they no longer receive visas for Europe.
The European Union imposes sanctions on eleven high-ranking Venezuelans in response to the unfair elections in which President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected last month. They are considered guilty of undermining democracy and human rights violations.
Greece is definitely going out of the European emergency program on 20 August. The country will receive a buffer of 15 billion euros and debt relief in the longer term. The measures must give private investors sufficient confidence to go back to Greece with them.
An asylum seeker whose application for protection has been rejected in an EU country can not be expelled as long as that decision is not final. Member States may adopt a so-called return decision, but this can only be carried out if it has been established on appeal that the asylum seeker is not entitled to international protection. During the appeals procedure, the person concerned may not be detained.
Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the French National Front, has to repay 298.497 euros to the European Parliament because, between 2010 and 2016, she wrongly paid an employee of her party with EU money. The Court of the European Union determined that.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appears to have received striking feedback from the US President. 'Trump said to me last week: Jean-Claude, you're a merciless' killer, 'the Luxembourger told during a visit to the regional parliament in Bavaria.
Prince Laurent has appeared on Tuesday at the funeral of the two police officers who died last week during the shooting in Liège. The brother of the Belgian King Filip was standing outside the audience watching the big screen.
The Benelux, the partnership between the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg that celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, still has plenty of plans for the future. The Heads of State, Prime Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the three countries meet in Brussels Tuesday to look back and look ahead. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned image, the Netherlands sees the Benelux as 'more relevant than ever'.
The new Italian Minister for the Interior, Matteo Salvini, has announced that he wants to work closely with his EU colleagues, while still pursuing a hard line in the area of migration issues. That reports the Italian news agency Ansa.
Four Belgian soldiers were injured when a missile grenade accidentally went into an ammunition depot in the Ardennes. One of them is seriously injured in the hospital, the other three are slightly injured. The projectile entered the munitions bunker a few meters further against a wall to a halt without exploding, according to a defense spokesman.
The European Union has extended its sanctions against Iran for one year due to serious human rights violations. The assets of 82 Iranians in the EU remain frozen. They also do not receive a visa for Europe.
Luxembourg calls back its ambassador to Moscow for consultation. The country does this in solidarity with Great Britain after the attack on the double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
Documents in the negotiations between the European Parliament, the Member States and the European Commission on legislation should in principle be made public when requested. The European Court of Justice has determined that.
