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Just 5,000 migrants moved under flagship EU relocation policy
A flagship EU policy to relocate migrants from Greece and Italy appears to have flopped. But the European Commission is sticking to its guns It agreed last September to move 160,000 migrants from those two countries within two years. But...
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Belgian unions march against labour reform
Several thousand people have marched in Brussels in protest at planned labour market reforms. The centre-right government plans to extend the working week to 45 hours from 38 now. Ministers also want to cancel an automatic wage hike...
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Polish women protest over planned abortion law
Polish women took to the streets on Monday in protest at a government bill that would lead to a total ban on abortion, even for rape victims. Women from across the country wore black as they walked out of their offices and schools to...
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MEPs back UN climate accord
MEPs have given their backing to the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year. EU approval for the accord is set to be signed off by the bloc’s 28 governments later this week. After that, ratification documents can be sent to the United...
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Let us roam – Brussels pulls back on latest plan for regulating mobile fees across EU
The European Commission has withdrawn proposals that would limit next year’s abolition of mobile roaming charges, after criticism that the rules should go further to favour consumers. The plans had been to limit roaming charge-free use...
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Barroso faces EU probe over bank job
Former European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso faces an ethics probe after he joined Goldman Sachs. His successor Jean Claude Juncker ordered the investigation following Barroso’s appointment in July as an advisor to the US...
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Europeans wait for Juncker’s words on the State of the Union
The head of the European Commission gave his first so-called State of the Union speech in September last year. Jean-Claude Juncker has faced a turbulent time since taking office in November 2014. The EU has been struggling to deal with a...
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“Ultimately there is nothing that stands out in his speech”
Jean-Claude Juncker delivered his second State of the Union speech under the shadow of the Brexit. He responded by seeking to present an inclusive and diverse European Union and avoiding controversial issues. But did his speech hit the...
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Ask Juncker: live interview with YouTube ‘stars’
Following the State of the Union speech, European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker will meet with three young YouTube stars. They are Polish YouTuber Łukasz Jakóbiak, Laetitia Birbes of France, and Jonas Ems from Germany. He’ll...
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EU’s Juncker takes swipe at Barroso over Goldman Sachs job
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has slammed his predecessor’s appointment as an advisor to Goldman Sachs due to the bank’s role in the financial crisis. Jose Manuel Barroso was named as a non-executive chairman of the US...
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EU27 meet in Slovakia – without Britain
The leaders of 27 EU countries are meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc on June 23rd. Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s François Hollande say the EU must do more to protect its external borders and...
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Workers march over Caterpillar job cuts
An estimated 5,000 people marched through the Belgian town of Charerloi, police said on Friday, in protest at planned job cuts by machinery maker Caterpillar. Early this month, the US-based firm said as many as 2,000 positions could go...
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EU tries to portray unity amid splits on migration
As EU officials admit, the European Union faces an existential crisis. After the British voted to leave the bloc, splits have emerged on key polices such as migration and defence. Time then, in true Brussels tradition, for a summit –...
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‘No company can have selective benefits’ – Brussels takes bite out of Apple
The European Commission (EC) has ordered US tech giant to pay a record tax penalty of 13 billion euros to the Irish government. Following a three-year investigation, the EC has ruled that for years Ireland enabled Apple to pay a tiny...
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Germany’s AfD – a flash in the pan or here to stay?
For insight into the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Germany, euronews spoke to Jean-Michel De Waele, Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Brussels. “It seems that something is happening...
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Does Brussels have the tools to take on VW?
Brussels is finally bearing some teeth over the Volkswagen emissions scandal. European Consumer Commissioner Vera Jourova on Monday described so-called ‘Dieselgate’ as a pan-European challenge and said that the Commission is assessing...
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Tensions rise over EU-Turkey migrant deal
Ankara and Brussels are on a collision course over their migrant deal. Turkey has repeatedly warned it will walk away from the agreement to accept refugees heading to Europe unless the EU agrees to waive visa restrictions. President...
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Berlin urges London not to postpone Brexit after delay reports
Germany has urged London not to delay Brexit, following a flurry of British media reports which suggested Prime Minister Theresa May might postpone the formal procedure to leave the EU. The start of January is widely touted as the most...
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Belgian jazz legend Toots Thielemans dies at 94
At the age of 94, the Belgian jazz master Toots Thielemans has died. The harmonica player and composer was known on the world stage for composing the music for movies like Midnight Cowboy. At the age of three already, Toots Thielemans...
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Europe founding father Altiero Spinelli honoured in Ventotene
Brexit, the ongoing migrant challenge, high unemployment, Islamist attacks, relations with Russia and Turkey – some of the topics to be tackled by the leaders of the EU’s three biggest countries as they meet for the second time since the...
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Renzi, Hollande and Merkel discuss security and the migrant crisis
The leaders of Italy, France and Germany have been meeting on board the Italian aircraft carrier ‘Garibaldi.’ The trio planned to discuss several topics such as the migrant crisis as well as securing Europe’s internal and external...
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Merkel, Hollande and Renzi celebrate Europe in mini-summit after Brexit blow
The leaders of France, Germany and Italy are meeting on Monday to discuss how the European Union can best bounce back in the wake of Britain’s Brexit vote. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is hosting French President Francois Hollande...
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Germany and France fear smart phone applications like Telegram are facilitating correspondence among terrorists
Telegram is a encrypted messaging telephone application that claims to have 100 million monthly active users. Law makers fear that dangerous jihadists are using it to hide what they want to say and plot sinister attacks in Europe and...
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European Brexit tour begins for Angela Merkel
Earlier this week, the ‘big three’ leaders Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel and Matteo Renzi promised the EU would survive Brexit as they met on the Italian island of Ventotene, where one of the founding fathers of the European Union...