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EU-20 sign collective defense treaty on Nov. 13

By NEOnline | IR

France says tax havens should be cut off of global financial support

Croatian PM wants the euro

Slovaks support EU membership, survey says

EU plans to be more active in the defense and security field

By Violetta Rusheva

epaselect epa06282303 French bulldogs during the International Dog Show in Poznan, 22 October 2017. About 5,000 and more than 260 breeds of dogs competed for the title of the best representatives of their category. EPA-EFE/JAKUB KACZMARCZYK POLAND OUT

‘Brexit will be worse than a nightmare for animals’

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epa06187290 Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Development and Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki delivers a speech during the XXVII Economic Forum in Krynica Zdroj, southern Poland, 06 September 2017. The Forum will run until 07 September. EPA-EFE/GRZEGORZ MOMOT POLAND OUT

Why Poland won’t join euro until currency is stronger

epa06262839 German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere speaks to media at the start of the Joint Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg, 13 October 2017. There will be a proposal for a regulation amending the Schengen Borders code. EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND

EU visa restrictions for countries that don’t accept rejected asylum-seekers

Special European Council (Art. 50) at the European Council in Brussels, Belgium on Apr. 29, 2017. The special European Council (Article 50), in an EU27 format,adop t the guidelines for the Brexit negotiations.
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Tusk on Catalan independence: ‘For EU nothing changes. Spain remains our only interlocutor’

By Irene Kostaki

Look who’s got the highest budget surplus in the EU

epa06282462 Polish Minister of Infrastructure and Construction Andrzej Adamczyk (C-L) and Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omeljan (C-R) sign a memorandum on co-operation between the Polish and Ukrainian ministries on the construction of the Via Carpatia project in Przemysl, Poland, 22 October 2017. The agreement was signed in the presence of Polish Sejm Speaker Marek Kuchcinski (2-L), Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy (2-R). The Via Carpatia route is European international ?North-South? highway connecting Klaipeda in Lithuania and Thessaloniki in Greece and is about to go through Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. EPA-EFE/DAREK DELMANOWICZ POLAND OUT

Poland, Ukraine to build Via Carpathia

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The EU reaches watered-down deal on ending posted workers regime

By NEOnline | IR

epa06278209 European Council President Donald Tusk (L) and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (R) leave after addressing a press briefing on the second day of the European Council Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, 20 October 2017. European leaders met in Brussels on 19 and 20 October 2017 to discuss most pressing issues, including migration, defence, foreign affairs and digitalisation and to review the latest developments in the negotiations following the United Kingdom's notification of its intention to leave the EU. EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

EU Council: Tusk says Brexit deadlock ‘exaggerated’, Juncker disagrees

By Irene Kostaki

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At the origin of Europe: a union against nature

epa06275199 Former US President Bill Clinton shakes hands with the London policeman on duty on his arrival at the London residence of British Prime Minister Theresa May, 10 Downing Street in central London, Britain, 19 October 2017. Reports state that Theresa May will discuss the current political situation in Northern Ireland with Bill Clinton who played a key role in helping to secure the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which led to power-sharing in Northern Ireland. On 18 October 2017 Clinton met with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster and Sinn Fein leader Michelle O?Neill during his vist to Northern Ireland. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL

UK’s May meets Bill Clinton to discuss Northern Ireland crisis

epa06254360 Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (L) arrives at Downing Street in London, Britain, 09 October 2017. There May will address Parliament on 09 October to update the House of Commons on Brexit negotiations. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL

Little progress expected on Brexit at EU summit

epa05667784 An interior view of the Europa building's atrium in Brussels, Belgium, 09 December 2016. Located at the heart of the European district, the Europa building combines a new part, a lantern-shaped structure designed by the consortium of Samyn and Partners (Belgium), Studio Valle Progettazioni (Italy) and Buro Happold (UK), and a renovated section listed Art Deco complex designed by architect Michel Polak in 1922. The building is scheduled to host it's first European head of governments summit in January 2017. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

EU Summit moved to old Council premises after second toxic gases incident

By Irene Kostaki

epa05667781 An interior view of the Europa building's atrium in Brussels, Belgium, 09 December 2016. Located at the heart of the European district, the Europa building combines a new part, a lantern-shaped structure designed by the consortium of Samyn and Partners (Belgium), Studio Valle Progettazioni (Italy) and Buro Happold (UK), and a renovated section listed Art Deco complex designed by architect Michel Polak in 1922. The building is scheduled to host it's first European head of governments summit in January 2017. EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

EU Council’s new ‘Egg’ building evacuated due to noxious gases

By Irene Kostaki

epa06262885 (L-R) French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, Hungarian Minister of Interior Pinter Sandor and Danish immigration and integration minister Inger Stojberg at the start of the Joint Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg, 13 October 2017. There will be a Proposal for a regulation amending the Schengen Borders code. EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND

EU’s Interior Ministers suggest extended border controls

By Irene Kostaki

epa05932509 Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto at the Informal Meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Ministers (Gymnich) at the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta, Malta, 28 April 2017. The two-days informal meeting of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs is held to discuss current international developments among themselves and will later continue when EU Foreign Ministers from candidate countries will join their EU counterparts to discuss issues of common concern, the Malta EU 2017 presidency said in a media release. EPA/DOMENIC AQUILINA

Hungary wants faster EU, Nato integration of West Balkans

epa06246469 Primary school teacher Agota Legenyne Balogh and her younger daughter, Luca talk in kitchen of their home before leaving to Moricz Zsigmond Primary School on World Teachers' Day to teach and study respectively, Nyiregyhaza, 227 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, 05 October 2017. The international day is held annually on 05 October since 1994 to commemorate teacher organizations worldwide with the aim of mobilizing support for teachers. UNESCO and the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the decree governing teachers? rights 51 years ago, on 05 October 1966. EPA-EFE/ATTILA BALAZS HUNGARY OUT; ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET

EU Gender Equality index shows very slow progress in 2017

By Irene Kostaki

epa06256936 French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair at Messe Frankfurt, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 10 October 2017. The book fair runs from 11 to 15 October. France is the special guest at this year's event. EPA-EFE/ARMANDO BABANI

French president in Germany to push European reforms

epa06043522 British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and European Council President Donald Tusk (R) pose during a EU leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, 22 June 2017. European heads of states and governments gather for a two-days European Council meeting on 22 and 23 June which will mainly 'focus on the ongoing efforts to strengthen the European Union and protect its citizens through the work on counterterrorism, security and defence, external borders, illegal migration and economic development', the European Councils said in a press release. EPA/FRANCOIS LENOIR / POOL

Brexit à la Grecque: negotiations turn into a chicken game

By NEOnline | IR

epa06257237 French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt Book Fair at Messe Frankfurt, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 10 October 2017. The book fair runs from 11 to 15 October. France is the special guest at this year's event. EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK

Macron warns EU against mediating in Catalan crisis

epa01097266 (FILE) A file photograph dated 26 February 2007 shows packaged ten-euro-bills on a desk in Magdeburg, Germany. The German budget recorded a small budgetary surplus over the first half of the year for the first time since reunification, as revenues during the period rose 5.6 per cent compared with the previous year, the statistical office in Wiesbaden recorded 23 August 2007. EPA/JENS WOLF

ECOFIN approves new rules to avoid double taxation

By Irene Kostaki

epa06254584 (L-R) German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, President of Eurogroup and Dutch Finance Minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Spanish Minister of Economy Luis de Guindos, Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Pietro Carlo Padoan and Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs at the start of the Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg, 09 October 2017. The Eurogroup will exchange views on the possible future roles and tasks of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in the context of the ongoing broader debate on the future of the Economic and Monetary Union. EPA-EFE/JULIEN WARNAND

Eurogroup agrees on backstop role for ESM’s bailout fund at Schäuble’s last meeting

By Irene Kostaki

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