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Jeremy Corbyn tells his MPs: Labour will campaign to stay in EU
Three days after Jeremy Corbyn told Labour MPs he wouldn’t give David Cameron a blank cheque on the Europe referendum he appears to have signed one.
Three days after Jeremy Corbyn told Labour MPs he wouldn’t give David Cameron a blank cheque on the Europe referendum he appears to have signed one.
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.
Jean-Claude Juncker was heckled by a far right Italian MEP in an Angela Merkel mask as he said that 120,000 refugees had to be relocated from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other European countries
Like every story that captures the imagination, the audience demands villains, victims and heroes. Let’s just say that the roles are still being cast and the list is fluid.
Facing criticism for erecting a razor-wire fence and forcibly moving people to camps, prime minister Viktor Orban says he is defending Europe’s “Christian identity”.
David Cameron has signalled he’s not about to join any Europe-wide resettlement programme for refugees. He isn’t about to risk inflaming domestic opinion by adding to Britain’s population growth.
The Home Secretary Theresa May says the system of free movement in Europe needs changing, and migrants should only cross borders into a new country if they have a job waiting for them there.
China has stunned the world by devaluing its currency twice in two days. Or rather it has stunned that naive part of the world that believed China’s economy was okay.
There’s a riff you hear around the top of government that the referendum on Europe is won. But the campaign for the UK to leave is gearing up…
The levels of economic pain and dysfunctional borrowing set to be inflicted on Greece mean that at some point public opinion will flip.
Eurozone leaders have reached an agreement to provide an 86bn euro bailout to keep the near-bankrupt Greece in the single currency.
“The most important currency has been lost,” remarked a rueful Angela Merkel on her way into the Eurozone talks today, “and that is trust.”
It is every bit as much about trust as about economics now. Of course, this being Brussels and this being the EU, nobody would ever use a word as straightforward as “trust”.
The Greeks arrived with a set of proposals widely scorned as “more austere than the ones they rejected”. The internet burst forth with catcalls – “they’ve caved in”.
Greece is told it needs to enact key reforms by Wednesday in order to restore trust with eurozone leaders, who will then open talks to negotiate a bailout deal with the struggling country.