The European Union (E.U.) is set to ban Brazilian meat imports on September 3 over the use of antibiotics to stimulate growth unless producers show compliance with safety regulations before the deadline — an announcement that comes roughly two weeks after the E.U. provisionally kicked off its controversial free trade deal with Mercosur.
Thousands of farmers took to their tractors in a coordinated attempt to block off entrances to Paris in protest against green regulations.
Brussels is reportedly planning on threatening to block the City of London, the nation’s finance capital, from European markets unless the UK agrees to remain aligned to EU regulations post-Brexit.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he will “roll out the red carpet” to American businesses, hinting at major reforms post-Brexit to taxation and regulations which would expand Britain’s global reach to investors and increase trade. Addressing American and
Berlin’s largest department store has pulled several Israeli goods from its shelves following a European Union rule outlawing “Made in Israel” tags on products made in West Bank Jewish settlements or in the Golan Heights. A spokesperson for KaDeWe (Kaufhaus
Britain’s biggest insurer is examining plans to move its headquarters offshore to escape increasingly onerous new European Union (EU) regulations. The radical departure could see the £36bn insurer sell its British operations, or spin them out into a separate listed company. City sources
Consider yourself warned. Britons could be fined for not recycling a staggering 70 per cent of their rubbish under controversial new plans set out by faceless Eurocrats. In a vote in Strasbourg yesterday, 394 MEPs backed the plan, which advocates an overall EU
The EU may be a federation without borders but Hungary begs to differ. Fed up with an invasion of asylum seekers entering the country from neighbouring Serbia, Hungary has acted to stem the flow by building a fence to secure its frontier
The Council of Europe’s latest analysis of democracy, human rights and the rule of law reveals many European governments failing to safeguard against corrupt judiciaries while also suppressing dissent in the media. The report, “State of Democracy, Human Rights and
Since their invention more than 150 years ago, Christmas crackers, with their terrible jokes and paper hats, have become just as much a part of the Christmas tradition as the carols, tree and presents, and as such as loved by
