REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will make a formal pledge ahead of the June 8 election to end European Union free movement of people into Britain, the Daily Mail newspaper reported, citing unidentified party sources. May will also include pledges in her election manifesto to pull out of both the EU […]
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EU’s €1.2bn funds to NGOs lack transparency, support questionable groups – MEP warns
Published time: 2 Apr, 2017 13:16Edited time: 2 Apr, 2017 13:52 The European Parliament lacks transparency in the funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that received hundreds of millions in donations from Brussels in 2015, the author of a report focusing on the issue warns, according to Spiegel. An estimated €1.2 billion ($ 1.28 billion) was […]
Hundreds of migrants rushed the border at Spain’s Ceuta, the EU’s only land border with Africa
AFP Madrid (AFP) – Some 300 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, authorities said, days after hundreds more forced their way over the frontier. The young migrants climbed over the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory, ecstatic to have finally crossed into a European Union state. […]
Carbon tariffs and the EU’s steel industry
Fuel for a dirty war THE European Union wants to slash greenhouse-gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. It is on course to cut just half that amount. To get back on track, on February 15th, the European Parliament voted for a plan to raise the cost for firms to produce carbon. It […]