Monday
21st Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
German Chancellor Merkel met former French President Sarkozy Friday in Berlin, but the content of their talks remains "confidential," a government spokeswoman said. Merkel informed current President Hollande beforehand, she added. Sarkozy is from the same EU centre-right political family as Merkel and may be eyeing an EU top post.
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”.
Behind all the money coming to Europe from China's 'New Silk Road' lurks a potentially explosive cocktail.
"Unique” Irish deal to maintain free flow of people and goods, but UK ideas on future EU trade branded a “fantasy”.
