Thursday
29th Jun 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.
EU states in Nato and Canada spent $46 billion more on defence in the past three years in money that is partly being used to buy more “armour”.
EU seeks novel ways to plug a Brexit-based budget hole of up to €11 billion, but income from fines, such as the one on Google, cannot be relied on.
Croatia said it would not apply a ruling to be delivered by the international arbitration court on Thursday. Slovenia appeals to the EU to pressure its neighbour.
The EU is encircled by a ring of the world’s worst offenders on human trafficking, a US state department report has said.
A year after British voters chose to leave the EU, "taking back control" from the bloc is firmly on the back-burner, as May government’s main ambition is its immediate survival.
The prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, maintains that his country had broken no rules and committed no crime when issuing rulings that slashed global tax bills for the big firms.
