EU to Resettle 50,000 Refugees From North Africa
Тhe European Union is planning to resettle 50,000 refugees directly from war-torn countries into Europe in its latest bid to stabilise migration to the bloc, it announced on Wednesday.
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Тhe European Union is planning to resettle 50,000 refugees directly from war-torn countries into Europe in its latest bid to stabilise migration to the bloc, it announced on Wednesday.
Barcelona police have sealed off a warehouse said to be stocking ballot boxes, as Spain seeks to obstruct a Catalan independence referendum, reported BBC.
Barcelona's Mayor Ada Colau called on the European Union to intervene in the conflict between the Autonomous Region of Catalonia and the central government in Madrid, reports Bgnes.
Belgian police arrested a Spanish man suspected of recruiting for the Islamic State group and planning attacks in Belgium, in a raid near Brussels airport on Wednesday, officials said, The Local writes.
The Irish government says it will hold a referendum next year on whether to change the country's laws on abortion, one of the strictest in Europe, BBC writes.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called on the EU to continue resettling refugees, after the end of the resettlement program, which officially ended on Tuesday, reports Bgnes.
Negotiations on Brexit so far have not shown enough progress to move on to the next phase of discussions on future relations, including trade, said European Council President Donald Tusk, reported Reuters.
Dimitar Dimitrov, Director of European Policies at Wikimedia and a Bulgarian political scientist, shared his fears that a new copyright law reform would hamper quality journalism in Europe.
Spain's chief public prosecutor on Monday refused to rule out ordering the arrest of Catalonia's president as Spanish authorities continued a crackdown against a banned independence referendum in the region, according to the Telegraph.
Theresa May will meet European Council President Donald Tusk later - the first time since the PM set out plans for a two-year transition period post-Brexit, BBC reports.
Britain will have to pay the EU EUR 52 billion to cover its obligations voluntarily taken before Brexit, a diplomatic source said, quoted by TASS.
The UK must provide more clarity about its negotiating position on Brexit, the French president has said, reported BBC.
President Emmanuel Macron formally signed five decrees overhauling France’s labor rules on Friday, the first major economic reforms since he took power in May.
London’s transport regulator on Friday stripped Uber [UBER.
Spanish police on Friday detained a man they said had a close relationship with a number of those involved in last month’s attacks in Barcelona when militant Islamists used a van to hit pedestrians and carried out a follow-up attack, killing 16, reported
The European Union wants Britain to end uncertainties over the terms of its exit from the bloc, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Thursday.
Tensions are high in the Spanish region of Catalonia ahead of more planned protests by referendum supporters.
The vast majority of Muslims in the EU have a high sense of trust in democratic institutions despite experiencing widespread discrimination and harassment, a major survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) shows.
Angela Merkel’s conservatives dropped one percentage point in a poll released on Thursday, three days before a German election in which the chancellor is expected to win a fourth term, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained two points, R
Most Muslim migrants within the European Union have a strong connection with the European community, believe in democratic institutions, and embrace Europe as their new home, despite the existence of discrimination on racial grounds.
Theresa May has raised the prospect of backing military action against North Korea as she denounced the regime for its “outrageous proliferation” of nuclear weapons.
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