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 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.
Around 9.5 million voters in Bavaria can vote for a new parliament on Sunday. According to opinion polls, a totally different parliament is elected than the conservative state is used to. The Christian Social Union (CSU), which had been running for decades, would suffer considerable losses under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Söder.
In the case of air strikes in the Yemenite region of Hodeidah, according to Houthi rebels, at least nineteen civilians were killed on Saturday. Jet fighters from the coalition fighting against the rebels under the leadership of Saudi Arabia attacked a checkpoint in Jabal Rass when two buses passed by.
At least sixteen people were killed by a double suicide attack on a popular restaurant and hotel in the Somali city of Baidoa. About fifty others were injured. That reports the Somali police.
Kitten 'Smokey' was rescued by firemen from fire in a fire in the port of Ghent on Thursday morning. The local fire service now announces that one colleague will take full care and the animal will live with him.
In the latest opinion polls in Germany, the Greens have outpaced the Social Democratic SPD and the populist AfD (Alternative für Deutschland). The Greens have the support of seventeen percent of the respondents and are in second place in the poll of the public broadcaster ARD. According to the newspaper Bild, it is the first time that the Greens have achieved such a high score in this survey.
Six people were killed as a result of hurricane Michael in the southwest of the United States. Most of the deaths have fallen in the state of Florida, namely four. People also died in the states of Georgia and North Carolina. The authorities fear that the death toll can still start running.
Exhaust gases from diesel vehicles are included in the European list of carcinogenic substances against which employers must protect their personnel. Seven other chemicals are also on the list, giving more than 20 million workers in Europe better protection.
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 death toll due to the earthquake in Haiti on Saturday (local time) has risen to fifteen. More than three hundred people were injured. This has been reported by the head of the civil protection service of the Caribbean country.
Bulgarian TV journalist Viktoria Marinova (30) was found dead at a remote spot on the Danube near her hometown of Roese. The police said on Sunday in the local media that she was raped and brutally murdered.
In the Latvian parliamentary elections, the center-right coalition lost its majority. The Union of Farmers and Greens of Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis was punished despite the growing economy. He received less than 10 percent of the votes, halving, and only held 11 seats out of 100 in the parliament. The electoral council in Riga announced this on Sunday.
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.
A woman who had taken 'too much' water over the Belgian border has been fined up to 414 euros.
Japan has threatened the British prime minister May that his companies will no longer use the United Kingdom as an entrance to the European Union as the Brexit increases costs.
At the edge of our solar system, far beyond all planets, there is a mysterious object. It is a small boulder that takes 44,000 years to orbit around our sun.
While in the disaster area of Sulawesi the number of victims is increasing by the hour, there is criticism of the warning system for tsunamis of the Indonesian government. That did not work well when last Friday a heavy earthquake unleashed a devastating tidal wave.
Flanders is going to have an unmanned boat cross the Atlantic. In May 2019 the vessel, Mahi, departs from the west coast of France for a trip to Guadeloupe.
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.
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.
Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen are on the verge of starvation. Their situation is deteriorating by the day. The country still has food supplies for two to three months, while fighting for Hodeida, the most important port city in the country, threatens to put food imports to a standstill.
In the night from Monday to Tuesday, the Belgian police arrested more than sixty illegal immigrants. With approximately 150 agents, the police controlled all access roads to the port of Zeebrugge and, moreover, the French border in the province of West Flanders. The campaign focused on trucks \u0026 vans.
On Saturday night, Iran has accused the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom of harboring foreign opposition parties. The diplomatic representatives of the countries have been called on the carpet. The accusations come after gunmen opened the fire on Saturday during a military parade. In the attack, at least 25 people were killed and more than fifty people were injured.
Two alert Texan prison employees have accidentally done a big drug discovery. They were sent out to pick up a load of overripe bananas that had been donated to the State's Custodial Institutions. However, there appeared to be more than fruit in the boxes.
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.
In their struggle with Iran, the United States is increasingly attracting a shadowy opposition group that recently appeared on the terror list of both America and the European Union. The Iranian Volksmoedjahedien (MEK), headquartered in Albania, finds a willing ear in the highest echelons of Washington thanks to its main objective: to overthrow the regime in Tehran.
The EU should focus on strengthening the external borders of the union and cooperation with countries outside the EU in order to keep the migration within bounds. That said EU President Donald Tusk after an EU summit in Salzburg. 'The migration debate shows that we do not agree on everything but on the goal: to curb illegal immigration. We have decided to focus on what unites us and has already produced results. '
