Many people-smugglers send asylum seekers across the Channel in dangerously small boats – PA Media The temporary ban on accepting new asylum seekers into Scotland could last for years, the BBC has learned. Glasgow City Council is the only local … Read More
Coveney says there is ‘some strain’ between governments – understatement of the year. Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson (2R) and his wife Carrie Johnson (R) walk with US president Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden prior to a … Read More
Dublin worries EU-UK diplomatic clash could inflame tensions in the North. Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference on the final day of the G7 summit in the UK. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg British prime minister Boris Johnson has said he will do … Read More
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated on Monday that the time had come to remove the veto mechanism in the European Union. He said he believes that the EU should become more effective on the international policy arena and that … Read More
Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Mass (file image) The right for individual EU member states to veto decisions must be scrapped, Germany’s foreign minister has declared. Heiko Maas said that the 27-member bloc cannot be hamstrung by single hold-outs. “We can … Read More
Joe Biden will meet with the Prime Minister at a one-on-one meeting in London on Thursday, before the G7 summit over the weekend (Getty Images) Joe Biden is set to raise pressure on Boris Johnson to not go back on … Read More
A man receiving a shot of the vaccine against COVID-19 at a mobile NPHO unit at Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos island, Greece | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/VANGELIS PAPANTONIS According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), COVID-19 hit … Read More
Ireland and Lithuania have each agreed to take 10. Luxembourg has also offered to help. (Photo: noborder network) Calls in early May for EU states to help relocate asylum seekers from Italy have largely been ignored. The European Commission had … Read More
Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during a media briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic in Downing Street, London, on January 21, 2021. – Copyright AP Photo More than 1,500 asylum seekers in the UK have been left in limbo after being told … Read More
The result would be a headless NATO and the destruction or demoralization of civilian governments in West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Warsaw Pact plan makes clear two things. First, in a surprise … Read More