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Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, no Brexit – the subject is sucking the oxygen out of the European Union, impatient to tackle the big battle between nationalism and internationalism ahead of its own elections in May.
Gary Gibbon
An interesting session from Theresa May at the Liaison Committee this afternoon. Now that’s not a sentence you see very often. Mrs May said there will be additional spending coming for the NHS and you won’t have to wait until the end of the Spending Review next year to hear about it. Mrs May wasn’t asked…
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed Labour’s new policy on Brexit . In a speech in Coventry, he said a Labour government would negotiate a new customs union between Britain and the European Union. But he said a condition of such a new tariff-free customs arrangement would be that Britain has a “say in future trade deals”…
Prime Minister Theresa May says the UK will not take on the European Council presidency next year after voting to leave the EU.
The proportion of funding the IFS gets from the EU has increased in recent years – from 5.9% of funding in 2009 to 11% in 2014.
The latest dramatic scenes from Eastern Europe show chaos at yet another country’s border. This time, the focus of those trying to reach Western Europe is Croatia.
Once lauded as a model of employee-worker relations, Germany is being rocked by a series of strikes, and politicians are now moving to curb the legal powers of trade unions.
As a mass funeral for 24 drowned migrants takes place in Malta, European Union leaders gather for an emergency summit on how to tackle the rising number of migrants arriving in southern Europe.
The Oxford Union decision to invite French far-right politician Marine Le Pen to speak prompts outrage from student groups. But others tell Channel 4 News it is important to hear what she has to say.
Gary Gibbon
George Osborne sticks rigidly to the line that the Tory leadership is not shifting its position on whether there are any circumstances in which it might back an “out” vote in an “in/out” referendum.
In one part of Europe people are literally dying to join the European Union club, in another they have never been entirely sure how much they want it.
How do you solve a problem like Europe? Former prime minister Tony Blair has a go, suggesting Britain should lead on reform in Brussels, while current leader David Cameron gets into an EU spat.
From making pigs happy to making bankers sad – ten reasons why, whatever you think about the European Union, you should be voting in the elections on Thursday.
Parties are campaigning for the European elections – but how much do we really know about what goes on in Brussels and the European parliament?
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid says immigrants to the UK need to learn to speak English to “respect our way of life”, as posturing over immigration intensifies ahead of the European elections.