Friday
18th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
"No one should be confronted with a mountain of red tape", the EU's Brexit chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, promised at the annual State of the Union conference in Florence on Friday. He said it would be "a priority" in Brexit talks to preserve the rights of the approximately 3.2 million EU citizens and their families in the UK, and the 1.2 million British citizens working and living in the EU.
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”.
Opening the German election campaign, Merkel has refused to link distribution of refugees in Europe with the EU budget.
Britain wants to keep its EU customs privileges after Brexit but also wants the freedom to negotiate other trade deals.
Italy has endorsed Libya’s decision to chase NGOs out of coastal waters in what one charity called “an unacceptable assault on people’s lives and dignity”.
