With voting taking place on September 24 Martin Schulz’s left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD) trail Mrs Merkel’s conservatives by around 14 percentage points. Mr Schulz challenged her to a second debate in a letter, arguing that they failed to address many key issues in the first encounter on September 3, billed […]
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The EU Commission president is making the risky move in a bid to avoid the embarrassment heaped on the Commission when Belgium’s tiny regional parliament, Wallonia, threatened to scupper the entire EU-Canada free trade deal last year. The EU nearly lost seven years of negotiations to secure the CETA (EU-Canada […]
Hurricane Irma survivors on the hardest-hit islands in the Caribbean fear they will be forgotten after the storm left “apocalyptic” destruction in its wake, wiping out homes and leaving many residents desperate and without electricity, running water and food. “It’s complete devastation. There’s no power or water. Basically almost everything […]
A search and rescue operation was launched after a PC-7 military aircraft vanished while flying over the mountains. The plan set off on Tuesday morning, around 8.30m, on a routine training flight from Payerne airfield in the canton of Vaud. The experienced pilot was the only person on board. The […]
As a study on global development released by the Gates Foundation reveals that millions more could die if major economies cut their investments, Mr Gates said that he wants to prove the money is “worth spending”. He said: “We are being questioned more than ever, and the budget framework is […]
The shock idea was part of Mr Juncker’s pitch for the future of Europe in his State of the European Union speech this morning. Mr Juncker told the European Parliament in Strasbourg: “Europe would function better if we were to merge the presidents of the European Commission and the European […]
The European Commission President made the comparison as he delivered his annual State of the Union speech to MEPs in Strasbourg. Mr Juncker acknowledged the EU was battered and bruised and not in a good state after Britain voted to walk away from the bloc. But he insisted it had […]
GETTY The Euro could be set to PLUNGE in value after increase in value The exchange rate between the Euro and the US dollar has been tightening throughout the summer. Writing in the Financial Times, Italian economist Lorenzo Bini Smagh said: “The European Central Bank seems to be increasingly concerned […]