Monday
21st Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Belgium's economy expanded 0.4% in the fourth quarter, the National Bank of Belgium said Wednesday. It is the biggest increase since the beginning of 2011. "The number released today for Belgium is also a good sign for the whole of the eurozone," said ING bank economist Philippe Ledent, reports Bloomberg.
The next few months will be decisive in selecting who stays in the core of the EU and who stays behind, writes Tomas Prouza, a former state secretary for European Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Arrest of Turkish dissident has again highlighted the way rogue regimes use Interpol to hunt their enemies inside the EU.
Just over a year after a small majority voted for Britain to leave the EU, new realities are dawning on both the in and the out camps.
One in three children aged between six and nine in Europe is either overweight or obese and the epidemic is threatening to bankrupt health services.
Twenty-four different nationalities among dead and injured in "jihadist" van attack on model of previous ones in France, Germany, and UK.
Austria is sending soldiers to stop migrants coming from Italy, while Bulgaria has said the EU should “defend” its borders by “force of arms”.
