The European Union is close to freezing plans to complete the $50bn (£30bn) South Stream gas pipeline through the Black Sea from Russia, the first serious EU action to punish the Kremlin for the seizure of Crimea. Key details emerged […]
The European Commission is examining several foreign holdings in European airlines, including Delta Air Lines’ stake in the UK’s Virgin, and Etihad’s stake in Germany’s Air Berlin, to see if they comply with rules for running an airline in Europe. […]
Opposition MPs have called on prime minister Mark Rutte to answer claims he threatened to pull the Netherlands out of the eurozone in 2012. The anti-immigration PVV and Socialists have called on Rutte to return from holiday to take part […]
Just 17 foreign criminals have been sent home to serve their sentences under a treaty that was intended to clear Britain’s jails of mainland European offenders. Ministers had hoped to deport thousands of offenders under a European Union treaty that […]
The European Union’s Earth observation satellite was put into orbit on Friday after a successful launch from Europe’s spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The successful launch of Sentinel 1A, the first satellite dedicated to EU’s Earth observation program – Copernicus, […]
Quitting the European Union will allow Britain to win back the self-confidence it lost after Margaret Thatcher quit as Prime Minister, Lord Lawson has said. Lord Lawson of Blaby suggested that Britain was hanging onto its EU membership as a […]
