European Union

UK Commons to vote on Brexit deal on January 15

Jan 07, 2019 13:55

British Prime Minister Theresa May has finally announced a date for a highly-anticipated vote in the parliament on her European Union withdrawal agreement.
UK PM warns Brexit can be cancelled if parliament rejects her deal

Jan 06, 2019 11:19

British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned that growing criticism of her European Union withdrawal agreement and opponents’ attempt to discard it in a parliamentary vote this month would finally lead to the cancellation of a 2016 popular decision to leave the bloc.
Iran says EU 'hostage' of US, warns of 'consequences'

Jan 06, 2019 05:33

Iran has criticized the EU for failing to set up a payment mechanism meant to circumvent US sanctions, warning that the bloc should account for the "consequences" of the delay.
Amid global crackdown on refugees

Jan 04, 2019 15:27

The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According to a recent Gallup study, a sixth of the world’s adult population—some 750 million people, not including children—want to flee their home countries to escape war, poverty, conflict and disease.
Most Tory members oppose May’s Brexit deal: Poll

Jan 04, 2019 14:09

Nearly 60 percent of Conservative Party members are opposed to Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union and prefer to leave the EU with no deal, a new survey shows.
Annual migrant deaths in Mediterranean fall by over a quarter: UNHCR

Jan 04, 2019 02:48

The UN refugee agency says the number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter in 2018 over the previous year, to 2,262.
EX-UK minister calls for a second deferral of parliament vote on Brexit

Jan 04, 2019 02:45

Britain's former Brexit Secretary David Davis has called for a second deferral of parliament’s vote on a European Union withdrawal agreement, saying that would force the EU to make concessions in order to avoid a disorderly divorce in March.
No-deal Brexit ‘far more likely’ if MPs reject May’s deal: Barclay

Jan 03, 2019 09:33

British Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has advised Members of Parliament (MPs) against voting down Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal with the European Union (EU), warning that doing so makes a no-deal exit from the bloc “far more likely.”
Cancelling Brexit will have ‘devastating’ social consequences, Hunt says

Jan 02, 2019 13:28

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned that if the government cancels results of a June 2016 referendum in which Britons decided for their country to leave the European Union, it would have harsh impacts on the United Kingdom's social fabric.
No foreign power can make decisions on legitimate EU-Iran trade ties: Mogherini

Jan 02, 2019 06:44

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc will not allow any foreign meddling in Brussels’ legitimate trade ties with other countries amid US attempts to kill the bloc’s business relations with Iran after its withdrawal from a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal.