Friday
22nd Jun 2018
EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos says "regional disembarkation schemes" would be set up in countries around the Mediterranean - although none have expressed a desire to participate.
South Korean businesses including Hyundai and Samsung are already scoping investment opportunities. Will North Korea become a 'new Vietnam' opportunity - or more like Myanmar, where slow Brussels policy-making meant EU exporters lost out.
The Putin regime has dissolved democracy and rule of law in Russia - we need to realise that we are operating in a long-term non-military conflict.
For Ukraine's new anti-corruption court to be successful, it requires Europe to step up and end its love of dirty money.
As the EU unit dealing fake news and propaganda is under threat, it is now time for some leadership in the fight against Russian disinformation.
Some 300,000 school-age Syrian children in Turkey are not enrolled in classes. Fears they may end up in sweatshops or forced to beg have triggered efforts by the EU, Unicef, and the Turkish government to keep them in school.
Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and France's president Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday signed a joint declaration that offers concessions by both camps in terms of migration and the setting up of a eurozone budget.
Draft conclusions of the EU summit seen by this website suggest setting up "regional disembarkation platforms", possibly in countries near Libya, to separate asylum seekers and economic migrants.
Breakthrough likely to see EU leaders open accession talks with Macedonia at summit in June and Nato invite Macedonia to join in July.
Most EU leaders found US president Donald Trump "depressing" at the G7, but one of them - Italy's Giuseppe Conte - made a new friend.
Nato is helping to sustain transatlantic unity amid a Western rift on trade, as Macron and Trump exchange blows on Twitter ahead of a 'G6+1' summit.
Nord Stream 2 pipeline may well not comply with EU rules, but Sweden has no legal reason to say no to Russia, Stockholm said.
On the day it outlined its reaction to US tariffs on steel and aluminium, the EU commission also launched a case against China on property rights - an issue on which EU and US are working hand-in-hand.
Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, said he wants to empower other conservatives in Europe, sparking calls for his resignation.
An Obama-era climate change working group has been in limbo since Trump came into office. Other areas of transatlantic energy cooperation also face uncertainty.
EU commission gets ready to hit back after Trump's decision to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminium.
Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev has said a "breakthrough" on the name dispute is imminent, as he prepares to speak to his Greek counterpart on Friday.
EU ambassador to Turkey said member states may consider reopening accession talks with Ankara if Erdogan put an end to the post-coup state of emergency.
Pro-American EU states are saying US ties are more important than Iran amid disagreement on the nuclear deal.
The EU should use its trade muscle to keep out hostile investors, the MEP behind a new screening mechanism aimed at China has said.
The EU is funding "NGOs with ties to terror", Israel has claimed as foreign ministers meet, in a stunt resembling Russian tactics.
Russian firm Gazprom is a reformed character, the EU commission has said, improving the climate for new pipelines to Europe.
Negotiators from the European Parliament give up attempting to bar 'lethal autonomous weapons' from new €500m European Defence Industrial Development Programme.
Notorious killers and corruption lynchpins, whether from Russia, Africa, or further afield could have assets seized by the EU if Europe joins new American sanctions.
Greece and Italy have a duty to better control migration into Europe, said Boyko Borisov, whose country holds the EU presidency.
At the first summit in 15 years with Western Balkan leaders, EU chiefs made it clear that enlargement is not at hand - but offered economic incentives to keep the region close to the bloc.
"With friends like that, who needs enemies?" European Council Donald Tusk asked on Wednesday, as EU leaders were trying to come up with a reply to the US president's questioning of the transatlantic relationship.
Unlocking Macedonia talks could be this year's big breakthrough in EU enlargement, but the devil's in the detail of Macedonia's constitution, as Macedonian prime minister Zoran Zaev and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras meet in Sofia.
EU leaders in Sofia will discuss how they can protect the bloc's economic interests against US threats to sanction companies doing business in Iran. But their options are limited.
EU leaders are preparing to restate their vows on Western Balkans enlargement in Sofia amid heightened competition from Russia.
Three member states have gagged the EU on a "fundamental" shift in the Middle East - Monday's move of the US embassy to Jerusalem.
The Kingdom of Bahrain has refused to host a visit by MEPs from the parliament's official human rights committee, citing scheduling conflicts - while helping organise one from an unofficial 'friendship group'.
An EU-funded commission in Guatemala helped Kremlin corporate raiders to conduct a vendetta against a Russian family, campaigners have warned.
