Saturday
19th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
The EU-Canada free trade agreement received backing from the European parliament's environment and public safety committee on Thursday. The support increases the chance it will enter into force later this year. The committee voted 40 to 24 in favour of the deal. In December, the employment committee rejected the agreement. The trade committee will also hold a vote in January before all 751 MEPs cast their ballot on the deal.
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”.
