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19th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Italy's minister of interior Angelino Alfano told MEPs in Brussels on Tuesday he wants the EU's border agency Frontex to expand and take over some of the Italian-led search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. "We have to combat illegal immigration and manage legal migration," he said.
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”.
