Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to discuss with the other EU leaders Saturday in Brussels how the EU should deal with Ankara. In the German parliament, she unexpectedly shone out on Turkey on Thursday while reading a government statement about the EU summit which is actually in the brexit's signature.
Estonia fears Russia will take military exercises to permanently station troops in Belarus. That said Estonian minister Margus Tsahkna (Defense) prior to a meeting with officials from other EU countries.
Turkey can not become a member of the European Union if the country makes the constitutional amendments approved in a referendum. EU leaders must officially suspend accession negotiations once the new constitution, which gives President Erdogan much more power, will come into force.
First the divorce, then the future relationship. The EU underlines hard off the desire of the British Government simultaneously with the negotiations on the British departure from the EU to arrange a new form of cooperation. 'That will not happen,' said EU President Donald Tusk Friday in Valetta, Malta.
The number of refugees traveling fell by twenty percent from Africa to Italy. In the first quarter of 2016 there were nearly 29,000 migrants. In the first quarter of 2017, from January 1 to March 29, there were 23,000, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration.
If the EU leaders not to postpone the decision to be reappointed as President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Poland is likely to fail the summit on Thursday and Friday.
Dutch who have been on holiday in Malta, have firmly placed on a visit: the Tieqa tad-Dwejra. The famous rock formation is Wednesday engulfed by a raging sea. Malta mourns the loss of the main attraction of the island group.
The European Commission will present Wednesday a series of scenarios for the future of the EU after the brexit. These so-called White Paper serves as food for a summit in Rome, where government leaders bow in late March on how to proceed with the union.
Aid organizations have sat in the Sicilian Channel rescued three hundred boat people. It reports the Italian news agency Ansa. Friday, 1,300 people were already on the coast of Libya hoisted aboard several lifeboats.
The Louvre was reopened Saturday after a man Friday with a machete soldiers who helped guard the museum was attacked. A soldier shot the attacker down and the most visited museum in the world then closed its doors.
Now the United States is increasingly hostile to free trade, the EU is reaching out to countries like China, Japan and Mexico. In this way, potential economic damage are minimized, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The European Union is determined to reduce the number of migrants from Africa. The 28 heads of government and heads of state took Friday at a summit in Malta, a ten-point plan that the migration across the Mediterranean decline should shout. The spearhead of the so-called Malta Declaration Libya was the departure point last year for more than 90 percent of the 181,000 boat migrants who reached Italy.
The idea of a group of EU countries to form a kind of breakaway to make faster decisions, find Mark Rutte not the biggest advocate. His Belgian colleague Charles Michel suggests Friday at the EU summit in Malta in order to form a sort of core Europe in areas such as defense, counter-terrorism, energy and investment.
The 28 leaders of the European Union come together Friday in Malta. An important objective of the summit is the number of people who dare to cross into Europe via the Mediterranean to reduce.
EU Minister Donald Tusk presented Friday at an EU summit in Malta 'concrete proposals to combat the smuggling from Libya and the drowning of migrants to the EU.' He said after a meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Seraj.
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Seraj Wednesday at NATO in Brussels asked for help in rebuilding the military institutions and the security services under public administration. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference following NATO is willing to do so, such as the Alliance did in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Reducing migration from Africa and the future of the EU after the brexit are the main topics of the EU summit to be held Friday in Malta. Donald Trump, however, will surely come to exist, as changing the government during lunch ideas about ' international challenges. ''
The last obstacle to the abolition of roaming charges in the EU was taken from June 15th. As promised, the cost of texting, calling and mobile internet in other EU countries are similar to those in their own country.
The United States under President Donald Trump forms like Russia, China and radical Islam a threat to Europe. The only answer to an openly anti-European attitude is European unity.
Shortly reject the visit of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Ankara, Turkey has called on Germany urged the asylum application of about forty Turkish soldiers working at NATO institutions.
Migrants in Libyan camps face torture or kill the danger, or they are in some other way exposed to human rights violations. This is contained in a report by the German Embassy in Niger, reports Welt am Sonntag. The report comes on the eve of a European summit in Malta on the situation in the North African country.
Just before Chancellor Angela Merkel's Turkey visit has put the German media Saturday extra pressure on the boiler. About forty Turkish soldiers working at NATO institutions have requested political asylum in Germany. They are mostly senior officers.
The leader of the Order of Malta has resigned after a dispute with the Vatican. Knighthood dedicated to humanitarian affairs made Wednesday.
The EU should make a deal like migration with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees from North Africa. The Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat put such an agreement as a brake on large numbers of boat people which according to him this spring can be expected over the central Mediterranean.
The Order of Malta is refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the Vatican for the dismissal of a senior member of the order in connection with the distribution of tens of thousands of condoms in Myanmar. The order is given to understand the Vatican that it does not need to interfere.
'Europe should stop pointing the finger at the people who vote for populist parties, but pay attention to their concerns. We will not avoid debate on migration, and to listen to the concerns of citizens, 'said the Prime Minister of Malta on Wednesday.
Malta adopted January 1 the rotating EU presidency from Slovakia. It is the first time that the southern European island nation of 415,000 people in charge get over the Council of Ministers in Brussels.
The two hijackers of a Libyan passenger plane last Friday had landed in Malta, kidnapping, made the use of force in a plane and cracking dependents. Both men declared Sunday before the court in the Maltese capital Valletta not guilty. If they are convicted they can get life for kidnapping.
The 111 passengers on the plane that was hijacked on Friday and had to fly to Malta, are brought to the Libyan capital Tripoli, the original destination of the flight. Reported that the Libyan state news agency Lana Saturday.
The shooting of a film about a plane hijacking at the airport in Malta Friday afternoon had suddenly interrupted because there was underway a real hijacking.
