The EU is set for a makeover in 2019, but familiar problems — populism, trade disputes, migration and budget deficits — continue to weigh on the bloc. DW’s Bernd Riegert takes a look at what to expect this year. French EU campaign poster reading ‘This time, I’ll register to vote’ The European Union has had…
The Oscar for the biggest bluff of 2018 goes to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi for almost having us convinced they’re opposed to immigration reform from high atop the fabricated moral high ground they’ve staked out. In reality, they weren’t always opposed to illegal immigrants being forced to follow the law and come here through…
A closed sign is displayed at The National Archives entrance in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, as a partial government shutdown stretches into its third week. A high-stakes move to reopen the government will be the first big battle between Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump as Democrats come into control of the House. (AP…
The casualties, including young children, were mostly killed when their homes collapsed in landslides after days of heavy rain in several provinces in the central Philippines, said Ricardo Jalad, executive director of the national disaster agency. About 20 tropical cyclones hit the Philippines every year, with destroyed crops and infrastructure taking a toll on human…
An attack by a group of asylum-seekers on passers-by in a Bavarian town has prompted Germany’s interior minister to renew his longstanding call for stricter deportation laws. Amberg’s mayor has called for caution. Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said asylum-seekers who commit violent crimes must leave the country, after a group of apparently drunken teenagers attacked a dozen people…
An attack by a group of asylum-seekers on passers-by in a Bavarian town has prompted Germany’s interior minister to renew his longstanding call for stricter deportation laws. Amberg’s mayor has called for caution. Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said asylum-seekers who commit violent crimes must leave the country, after a group of apparently drunken teenagers attacked a dozen people…
Iran could use its growing clout in Iraq to turn it into a springboard for attacks against Israel, the chief of Israeli military intelligence said on Monday, reports Reuters. Israel sees the spread of Tehran’s influence in the region as a growing threat and has carried out scores of air strikes in civil war-torn Syria against…
Police and Border Force officers where the boat landed on a Kent beach – David Wimble The issue of increasing numbers of migrants trying to cross the Channel in small boats to reach the UK has “no easy answers”, the home secretary says. Sajid Javid is chairing talks in London later after agreeing a joint…
Democracy, or whatever you want to call the political system we have here, exists only in appearances. It is, in fact, roadkill. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 30, 2018\ HANDOUT/ REUTERS Democracy, or whatever you want to call the political system we have here, exists…
European countries must continue to pool and share their sovereignty if they want to shape global affairs, writes Jean-Claude Juncker. A migrant child is helped from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue vessel to disembark in the port of Crinavis in Algeciras, Spain, last week. In 2016, Europe offered asylum to three times as many…