Tag: European Union

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Boris Johnson hosts EC President von der Leyen ahead of trade talks

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in London on Wednesday ahead of the opening rounds of trade talks that will begin once Britain formally leaves the bloc on Jan 31.

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Top EU official writes a “love letter” to Britain, stressing “you will always be welcome to come back”

  

  A top Brussels official has written a “love letter” to Britain expressing his grief at its decision to leave the European Union - and stressing it was always welcome back.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 22:37 UTC

  Airbnb is an “information society service” rather than a property broker, rules Europe's top court

  

  The accommodation-booking service Airbnb does not need an estate agent's license to operate in France, Europe's top court has ruled. The French tourism association had complained that Airbnb did not comply with French property laws.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:29 UTC

  Boris Johnson on target: “the Brexit vote wrapped up for Christmas”

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in parliament on Friday, the first step towards fulfilling his election pledge to deliver Britain's departure from the European Union by Jan 31 after his landslide victory.

• Friday, December 20th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  UK Parliament ready to vote the Brexit divorce deal with the European Union

  

  Britain's freshly-elected parliament prepared on Friday to move past years of partisan wrangling and initially approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson's divorce deal with the European Union.

• Thursday, December 19th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  UK will suffer more than the EU if it quits with no deal, von der Leyen warns

  

  Britain will suffer more than the European Union if it quits the bloc with no deal next year, a Brussels chief warned on Wednesday. Ursula von der Leyen, who has taken over from Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president, also stressed the timetable to reach an agreement was “extremely challenging” after London decided to put into law that the UK must leave by the end of December 2020.

• Friday, December 6th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Paraguay takes the chair of a quarrelsome strained Mercosur

  

  Brazil on Thursday handed over the six-month rotating presidency of the Mercosur trade bloc (Southern Common Market) to Paraguay. During a ceremony at the bloc's 55th summit in Bento Goncalves, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro expressed confidence in his Paraguayan counterpart Mario Abdo Benitez and his leadership skills.

• Friday, November 29th 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  EU condemns Cuba for detention of leading dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer

  

  The European parliament joined the United States on Thursday in condemning Cuba's detention and reported mistreatment of leading dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, whom the Communist government in Havana calls a US-backed counter-revolutionary.

• Wednesday, November 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Indonesia rainforest fires more toxic and extended than blazes in the Amazon, EU claims

  

  Fires that destroyed Indonesian rainforests pumped out more carbon dioxide than the blazes in the Amazon this year, according to the European Union's atmosphere observation program.

• Thursday, November 21st 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  EU Security Council members and Vatican question US decision on Israeli settlements

  

  European members of the UN Security Council hit out on Wednesday at the US decision to no longer consider Israeli settlements illegal but stopped short of naming the United States. The Vatican also expressed that the search for peace between Israelis had been put at risk.