EU – Brexit down agenda again, Putin at top
The main agenda for today’s European Council meeting is a reminder of the many fronts on which the EU is threatened at the moment.
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The main agenda for today’s European Council meeting is a reminder of the many fronts on which the EU is threatened at the moment.
President François Hollande has marked the first anniversary of the terror attacks of 2015 by unveiling plaques commemorating the 130 victims. And the state of emergency imposed since then looks likely to be extended.
President Hollande gave the sharpest words of the day on Brexit. The French President said: ” I have said it very clearly; Madame Theresa May wants a hard Brexit, then talks will be hard too.”
Can Britain maintain the relevance Mrs May seeks outside the EU?
Tomorrow, the Cabinet gathers at Chequers. Ministers were given summer homework to come up with how Brexit presents opportunities for their ministries.
Prime Minister Theresa May says the UK will not take on the European Council presidency next year after voting to leave the EU.
At least 84 people, including children, are killed after a man drives a lorry through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, in what the French authorities are calling a terror attack.
A manhunt is launched for two suspects after four officers are wounded in an anti-terror raid in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks.
A senior EDF Energy executive resigns over the company’s plans to build the first new nuclear power station in Britain for 25 years.
European Council President Donald Tusk said there has been “some progress” on the first day of talks at the Brussels summit, but “a lot still remains to be done”.
If you have a pension, or a string of ISAs, then you are watching – for the second time in a decade – your wealth destroyed. European stock markets are now 20 per cent off their peak in the middle of last year.
The tide of migration — and with it, unemployment and fear of terrorism — has fuelled the rise of the far-right in Europe, like the Front National in France. The country has 600,000 more people out of work since President Hollande took power.
A man carrying a knife has been shot dead by officers in Paris after trying to get into a police station on the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
I don’t know a United fan who thinks he should stay. Frankly, almost anyone right now would do a better job than Louis Van Gaal.
Almost every country in the world has signed up to the “historic” agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.