Friday
23rd Jun 2017
By EUOBSERVER
The president of the Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, said on Wednesday that his objective was to organise a referendum on the region's secession from Spain "in the second half of September next year". He was addressing the Catalonian parliament ahead of a confidence vote about his government's budget on Thursday.
German chancellor Angela Merkel said that Russia hadn't done enough to implement the so-called Minsk peace process, a condition for lifting the sanctions.
British academics want to guarantee residency and work rights for their EU staff, as well as "enhanced mobility opportunities" for UK and EU students, mostly by keeping British participation in EU funding programs.
Around 1,000 staff of the European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority will have to wait until November, instead of October, to know where they will be relocated come 2019.
May promised to create certainty as she outlined to EU leaders her offer on post-Brexit citizens' rights, but the organisation representing the EU citizens currently residing in the UK say her proposal is not serious.
EU leaders have agreed to launch joint defence missions, described by French president Emmanuel Macron as a historic moment for the European Union.
EU leaders said on Thursday that there should be a way to tackle encrypted chat services like Whatsapp when terror suspects use them.
