EU’s post-Brexit paralysis
Two weeks after the British referendum vote, the European Union is still reeling from the result. In Brussels and Strasbourg a strange sense of paralysis has taken hold, as the mysterious momentum that propels the EU…
EU coastguard and border force approved
The European Parliament has agreed to set up a new border and coast guard agency to help countries cope with unusually high levels of migration. The force of 1,500 guards will be able to deploy even…
Europe post-Brexit
After talks in Berlin this week, the leaders of Italy, Germany and France have ruled out any informal talks with Britain on leaving the EU, raising the prospect of a lengthy political vacuum within the EU.…
'Islam has no place in my country'
Slovakia takes over the six-month EU presidency on 1July. Robert Fico, Slovakia's prime minister, says that ‘migrants change the character of our country’ and ‘multiculturalism is a fiction’. Fico has argued that Slovakia has no obligation…
