The European Union must do everything in its power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the union without agreement on the new relationship. This is what stressed Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on his visit to Paris with President Emmanuel Macron on Monday. Austria is currently EU President.
Hungary receives support from neighboring Austria. The European Parliament wants the European Union to use the toughest criminal proceedings against Hungary. This can ultimately ensure that Hungary loses its voting rights in Europe. However, the Austrian populist government party FPÖ doubts whether the process has gone according to the rules.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for a new referendum on British membership of the European Union. In the Sunday newspaper The Observer Khan criticizes the government's negotiations and says that the way of life, the economy and the jobs are too much at risk, without the voters being allowed to speak about it.
Pope Francis has called on the Mafiosi in Sicily to give up their lives full of crime and violence and to opt for love. The prince of the Church said that members of organized crime, who are mostly practicing Catholics, 'can not believe in God and can be Mafiosi at the same time.'
French catering entrepreneurs want the government to speed up asylum procedures and make it easier for them to find suitable staff among migrants. They have thousands of jobs on offer for which French employees are increasingly turning up their heads.
Poland wants to prevent European sanctions from being imposed against Hungary. According to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, measures against Member States of the European Union only have the effect of increasing divisions in the EU. 'As a result, the confidence of citizens in European institutions continues to decline.'
European legislation needs to be put in place to tackle the spread of terrorist messages via the internet. This video or audio fragment must be offline within an hour.
The Polish government has once again sent judges of the Supreme Court to retirement. Twelve magistrates had reached the recently reduced retirement age and had asked President Andrzej Duda to stay on. Five of them are allowed to stay, seven others are not allowed to do so without giving a reason.
From a bridge of a motorway in the Italian L \u0026 # x27; Aquila, pieces of concrete have come loose. The chunks ended up on a road under the highway on Monday evening, but nobody was hurt, reported ANSA news agency.
The Russian forces have started the enormous multi-day military exercise Vostok 2018 (East 2018). More than 300,000 Russian soldiers participate in this. It is about the biggest maneuvers since the fall of the Soviet Union.
About two thirds of British trade union members are in favor of a new referendum on the Brexit. This is evident from a poll among more than 2700 members of the three largest associations, according to The Guardian Sunday.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised his compatriots to gradually raise the minimum wage and pensions in the coming months and years and to reduce the tax burden. However, the country can only be stabilized for the long term if the reforms continue and investments are made.
The nerve poison that recently killed a woman in the English city of Amesbury is chemically identical to the novitsjok that was used for the assassination attempt on the former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. This is evident from the research that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague has done at the request of the British authorities. The report was presented Tuesday.
A judge in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists from Reuters news agency, who have been detained since December last year, to seven years in prison. The two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were accused of having obtained secret government documents about troop movements. The time since December 2017 that they are in the cell is deducted from the seven years in prison.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May does not want to know anything about a new referendum on the Brexit. 'Betrayal of democracy', she calls it when a plebiscite comes for the second time about the British departure from the European Union.
In the budget proposal for 2019, the Danish government takes into account a possible hard break. A pot of 700 million crowns (more than 93 million euros) will be set aside in case Great Britain departs from the European Union without an agreement on the future relationship.
Most Europeans want to get rid of the system with summer and winter time. This is shown by a survey among 4.6 million Europeans, whose results were leaked via German media. More than 80 percent of the respondents want a line to be achieved by the system in which the clock is moved an hour twice a year.
The son of a German multimillionaire was convicted at the court in Cologne because he misbehaved as a hooligan.
Britain and the European Union publicly declare that they want to close a Brexit deal in the next seven weeks. Behind the scenes, however, high staff on both sides indicate that this is highly unlikely. They are now aiming for an agreement about the divorce in the middle of November, say anonymous sources.
A female mountaineer who did not survive a trip on the Elbrus (Russia) in 1987 was found after 31 years. The body of the then 36-year-old woman was mummified.
The African migrants who had to stay on board a ship in the port of Catania for over a week were detained in Libya for two years by smugglers. They were beaten, tortured and raped there before they made the crossing to Europe, reports the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations.
India wants to bring a person into space in a few years. The country hopes to bring three crew members into orbit around the earth by 2022. They would have to stay there for five to seven days at an altitude of 300 to 400 kilometers.
Those who had already bought a ticket for a flight with Ryanair, but leave after 1 November, still have to pay 8 euros for a trolley.
The British rescue services have found the bodies of two missing passengers on a Belgian fishing boat on Sunday. This has been announced by the Belgian Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center. The ship was capsized on Saturday at the end of the afternoon off the coast of the English county of Norfolk.
The maritime health authorities in the Italian city of Catania (Sicily) have ordered that sixteen passengers on the Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti should be immediately brought ashore. It concerns eleven women and five men. Two of them may have tuberculosis, Italian media reports.
The UN refugee organization wants EU countries to make reception places available for around 150 rescued people on board an Italian coastguard ship. The UNHCR also calls on the Italian government to immediately dispose of the migrants concerned.
A record load of almost two tons of cocaine has been discovered in the port of Ghent. According to the federal judicial police of East Flanders, the drugs have a street value of 100 million euros.
Dozens of young migrants have after a few days left the Italian coast guard ship in the port of Catania. The nearly thirty minors left the ship from Wednesday to Thursday, reports Italian media. The adults must stay on board.
The British government starts by advising people and companies about what to expect and what to do if there is no agreement on the Brexit between the European Union and Great Britain. That is what the British government says. On Thursday, the first advice will be published by Minister of Finance Dominic Raab. That reports the BBC.
Frans Timmermans, the Vice-President of the European Commission, warns Europe against new nationalism. He does so in a statement on the occasion of the annual EU memorial day for the victims of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
