Saturday
19th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Spanish socialist leader Pedro Sanchez has said he will oppose Mariano Rajoy's bid to be installed as prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday. Caretaker PM Rajoy said he would risk the vote even though his centre-right People's Party and its allies are six deputies short of a majority, with 170. Some commentators had urged the socialists, with 85 deputies, to abstain to break eight months of deadlock.
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”.
