Sunday
20th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
UK foreign secretary Johnson said Monday in Brussels that EU military integration would be a "good thing" so long as it was "complementary" to Nato. He said EU countries should spend more on defence and "shoulder more responsibilities" in EU crisis missions. The UK had previously opposed EU defence cooperation. EU foreign affairs head Mogherini said Monday in Brussels that "all member states" now have "an expectation to go ahead".
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”.
