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Macron is wrong on #NATOÂ
By Guest contributor Right before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall last weekend, French President Macron decided to make another staggering statement in a series of gaffes over the past weeks. “NATO is brain-deadâ€�, he said in an interview for the Economist yesterday and everyone gasped. Europeans more than anyone need […]
#Turkey starts returning #ISIS fighters to Europe
By Guest contributor Turkey has started sending ISIS fighters back to Europe, as it promised last week, writes Iveta Cherneva. Europe needs to take responsibility for its ISIS fighters. US President Trump is right on that. As Turkey’s minister of internal affairs said last week, Turkey is not a hotel for foreign terrorists. Europe’s jihadists […]
#DiscoverEU – Free EU travel passes to enable young people to discover Europe
By EU Reporter Correspondent Young people can again register for free rail tickets until 28 November, thanks to the Discover EU initiative, supported by the European Parliament. Alice and Lisi travelled around Europe together last summer thanks to the Discover EU initiative. Photo by @lisi_meets_world on Instagram. Thanks to backing by MEPs, 50,000 18-year-olds have […]
Mergers: Commission clears creation of joint venture by #SaudiAramcoDevelopmentCompany and #KoreaShipbuilding and #OffshoreEngineeringCompany
By EU Reporter Correspondent The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the creation of a joint venture by Saudi Aramco Development Company (“SADCOâ€�) of Saudi Arabia and Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering Company, Ldt (“KSOE”) of South Korea. The joint venture will construct and operate a manufacturing site of engines and marine […]
#KarlMarx old haunt revives past glories
By EU Reporter Correspondent It’s an experience familiar to many football teams, writes Martin Banks. Your club, previously victorious and lauded, falls on hard times only to bounce back in style under new ownership. Well, something similar has happened to a venerable old restaurant on Brussels’ equally venerable Grand Place. The restaurant is Maison du […]
#Brexit impasse takes its toll on British business investment
By Guest contributor As uncertainty over Brexit spills into its fourth year, Swiftool Precision Engineering has taken a tough investment decision: it will press ahead with a plan to spend £250,000 ($323,000) on a 3D printer but a new workshop roof will have to wait, writes William Schomberg. Like many British companies, the small, family-owned […]
#Vox says wants to build ‘patriotic alternative’ in #Spain
By Guest contributor Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right Vox, on Sunday (10 November) said he wanted to build a “patriotic alternativeâ€� for the country, after support for his party surged in a general election, write Ashifa Kassam and Belen Carreno. With nearly 99% of votes counted, Vox had won 52 seats in Spain’s 350-seat […]
#Brexit – United Kingdom might not exist in a decade, half of UK citizens think – poll
By Guest contributor The United Kingdom might not exist in its current form in a decade’s time, half of its citizens believe, an Ipsos MORI poll found, writes Guy Faulconbridge. The 52-48% vote in 2016 to leave the European Union has strained the bonds that tie England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into the United […]
UK to quadruple quota for #MigrantFarmWorkers – Sunday Telegraph
By Guest contributor Britain’s government will quadruple the annual immigration quota for seasonal farm workers to 10,000 from next year to tackle labour shortages in the sector after Brexit, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, writes David Milliken. Currently Britain allows 2,500 people from outside the European Union to work temporarily on British farms each year, […]
#Conservatives warn of economic crisis under #Labour, citing disputed dossier
By Guest contributor British Finance Minister Sajid Javid (pictured) said on Sunday (10 November) that the opposition Labour Party’s “recklessâ€� spending plans would trigger an economic crisis within months if it won the 12 December election, citing a contested dossier published by his Conservative Party, write David Milliken and William James. Labour strongly dismissed the […]
