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European Union Likely to Ban Common Insecticides to Save the Bees
The European Food Safety Authority has released a new assessment reasserting the dangers of the most widely used pesticide in the world. This is likely to influence future policies. Bees all over Europe may soon be just a little safer, after new evidence reinforces the case against harmful neonicotinoids, the world’s most used pesticides. A…
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Syria is a moral defeat for Europeans
After 1945 Europe said “never again” but never again is happening before our eyes in the Middle East, says Guardian columnist Natalie Nougayrède. Syrian civilians flee airstrikes in eastern Ghouta, February 2018. Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images Syria is a European crisis as well as a Middle Eastern one, and the world’s worst human rights disaster…
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EU at war: The member states REFUSING to pay Brussels more after Brexit
ONLY 14 EU member states have agreed to pay more into the union’s vast budget as bloc officials attempt to recover the damage caused by the UK’s decision to leave. EU officials have been grappling with members to pay up in order to avoid financial ruin for the European project – with estimates of the…
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EU budget crisis ERUPTS: FURY as Brussels Brexit cutbacks ‘TARGET’ Visegrad states
BRUSSELS looks set to use Brexit to PUNISH farmers in Central and Eastern Europe by resolving the Brexit financial blackhole with a severe cutback on agricultural subsidies that could see a 10 percent plunge in income. THe EU risks inflaming tensions between member states, after Britain’s exit from the European Union leaves a £11.5 billion blackhole in…
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May pleads for ‘urgent’ post-Brexit EU security deal
British Prime Minister Theresa May called for a deal with the EU on post-Brexit security cooperation at the Munich Security Conference Photo: AFP MUNICH, Germany British Prime Minister Theresa May pleaded Saturday for an urgent deal with the European Union on post-Brexit security cooperation, warning that citizens’ lives were at stake. In a speech at the Munich…
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Nigel Farage warns ‘Brexit betrayal’ would thrust Britain into crisis
LONDON (Reuters) – If Prime Minister Theresa May allows Brexit to be watered down or halted by supporters of European Union membership, then Britain will be thrust into the gravest constitutional crisis since World War Two, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said. The former leader of Britain’s UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, speaks in his…
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EU threatens to BLOCK sanctions against Iran in USA showdown
THE European Union is preparing for a showdown with the United States as Brussels considers new regulations to protect EU firms doing business in Iran in case Donald Trump scraps the 2015 nuclear deal and restores tough sanctions. AFP/GETTY Donald Trump has demanded EU nations ‘fix’ the Iran nuclear deal or he will pull the…
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Brexit: EU to have power to punish UK at will during transition
Exclusive: Brussels could impose sanctions if it believes law infringed, leaked document says. Brussels will have the power to punish the UK at will during the Brexit transition period by closing off parts of the single market to British companies, according to a leaked legal document drawn up by the EU. The 27 remaining member states want…
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Brexit: pressure on PM to clarify vision as new cabinet split emerges
Calls for Theresa May to define position on EU customs union after ministers’ divisive remarks. Theresa May is under pressure to spell out her vision for the UK’s future trading relations after a new cabinet split emerged on whether the country should remain part of a customs union with the EU. The prime minister did not…
