Italy’s populist coalition government has taken aim at European Union diktats which curb public spending and big business negligence after the Genoa bridge disaster which has killed dozens.
Iran’s increasing economic problems are as much a result of internal mismanagement as U.S. external trade pressure, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei conceded Monday.
The European Union (EU) will be hit harder than Britain in the immediate aftermath of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, Brussels officials have conceded, as the bloc comes under pressure to soften its negotiating stance.
This is it — the moment we’ve been waiting for. The moment when the Brexit rebellion finally began.
The Single Supervisory Mechanism, the European Central Bank’s financial watchdog, has become concerned about the knock-on effects the fall of the Turkish lira will have on some of Turkey’s European lenders after it experienced one of the biggest one-day falls of any free-floating currency in 20 years.
The Home Secretary has rejected a request for the United Kingdom to fly the national flag above all border posts, where people enter and leave the country, as many other nations do.
Boris Johnson needs to go full Trump. When I floated this idea just now on Twitter I was surprised by the response.
Morocco could have deliberately increased the flow of migrants setting off for Spain to pressure the European Union (EU) to make more generous concessions in forthcoming talks.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Donald Trump’s decision to reinstate U.S. sanctions on Iran as a historic turning point and called on Europe to follow suit by stopping the talks and taking concrete action.
Theresa May’s government is throwing away leverage in the Brexit talks by handing big money deals to European Union (EU) firms, a prominent business adviser has said.
Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Tuesday called the European Union (E.U.) ‘morally bankrupt’ for snubbing the U.S. and its reimposition of tough sanctions on Iran.
BERLIN (AP) – The European Union’s justice commissioner criticized some member countries’ practice of awarding “golden passports” to rich people from outside the bloc, urging them on Tuesday to do more to ensure that citizenship isn’t given to criminals.
Leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that leaving the European Union (EU) without a trade deal and moving to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules would “work well” for the UK and would mean Brexit would be achieved sooner.
European Union officials fear they may “lose Spain” to populism as a result of the migrant surge which the country’s new Socialist Party government has encouraged.
Trade exports have defied expectations by hitting a record high of £616 billion as the international trade secretary Liam Fox works on securing post-Brexit free trade agreements with some of the world’s largest economies.
China took a shot at the United States on Friday, announcing retaliatory tariffs of $60 billion on U.S. imports to the nation.
The European Union’s (EU) chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier last month met with the Tony Blair Institute, an organisation run by the former Prime Minister currently pushing to overturn Brexit.
Contents: Report: EU and UK ready to accept ‘fudge’ to get through Brexit; Opposition grows to the ‘fudge’ proposal
The UK’s net contribution to Brussels is forecast to soar by more than four billion pounds — over 51 percent –between the year the country voted for Brexit and the year it leaves the bloc.
The Foreign Secretary has said the likelihood of the UK walking away from the European Union (EU) without a trade deal is “increasing” and there is a “real chance” of such a clean “No Deal” Brexit.
A public backlash has forced the Government to ditch its plans to “drip feed” a series of scare stories about the supposed consequences of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit over the summer, in what had been dubbed Project Fear 2.0.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says it’s in the European Union’s “strategic interest” to expand in the Western Balkans because otherwise China and Russia will gain regional influence instead.
Gerard Batten MEP has accused the Government of manufacturing a national emergency with its “ridiculous” EU warnings in order to bolster support for Theresa May’s ultra-soft Brexit plan.
Pressure on Spain’s maritime border is increasing, with videos showing boatloads of illegal migrants crashing into busy tourist beaches circulating online as the country overtakes Italy and Greece as the EU’s major weak point.
Viktor Orbán made clear that his hard-hitting anti-mass migration policies were no less than what the people of Hungary were demanding of him on Friday, saying that if he adopted a more globalist position he’d be kicked out of office.
Italy’s new Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has made a shock intervention in the Brexit negotiations, warning there is “no good faith” on the EU’s side.
The steady diet of Brexit scare stories is continuing, with officials claiming the country could be overtaken by super-gonorrhoea and other infectious diseases.
Five Star Movement founder and comedian Beppe Grillo has backed a referendum on the euro currency in Italy, saying that Italians need a “Plan B” if the economy deteriorates.
EU lead negotiator Michel Barnier has holed Theresa May’s ultra-soft Brexit plan below the waterline, rejecting her proposal — seen as a major concession by Brexiteers — for Britain to collect customs duties on the EU’s behalf.
An MP close to Theresa May has revealed she plans to “scare people witless” about the consequences of a ‘No Deal’ Brexit over the summer, in order to win support for her ultra-soft Chequers plan.
Ex-Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson has laid into Theresa May’s ultra-soft Brexit plan yet again, describing it in florid terms as “vassalage, satrapy, colony status for the UK”.
The BBC has run a story headlined ‘Brexit threat to sandwiches’, citing an unnamed “senior grocery executive”.
“This bolsters Trump’s argument that being tough and aggressive–and, yes, using tariffs where required–can get you to the negotiating table,” Kudlow said.
Nathalie Loiseau has offered tacit encouragement to EU loyalists who wish to derail Brexit, saying that Britain could still decide to remain a full member of the bloc even at this late stage in the Brexit negotiations.
Italy’s new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini has rejected an EU offer to pay out €6,000 for every new migrant they take.
