EU likely to extend Russia sanctions before summit
Russian diplomats "seem resigned" to EU decision. But already building case to stop the next renewal, due in winter.
Russian diplomats "seem resigned" to EU decision. But already building case to stop the next renewal, due in winter.
EU planning to revive its US-type scheme for admitting skilled workers from overseas, underlies that ageing EU societies need young foreigners.
EU Commission has unveiled plans to use money and other incentives so that Middle East and African states stop people coming to Europe.
Many Europeans share the British PM's vision of an EU with fewer powers and lower political ambition, a leading pollster has said.
Representatives of 11 eastern member states have penned an open letter to transport commissioner Violeta Bulc deploring recent EU actions against "so called social dumping" that restricted their road operators. The ministers were also critical that France and Germany's minimal wages apply to foreign drivers. Ministers of Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia urged the commissioner to act against fragmentation of the internal market.
The European Central Bank said Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden fulfil most of the economic criteria to join the single currency area. The seven countries are obliged to eventually join the euro, but the ECB said in its annual convergence review that none had solved legal problems related to, among other things, central bank independence and integration into the eurosystem.
Deputy prime minister Tomislav Karamarko is filing a no-confidence motion against the prime minister, fighting of an attack on his own position.
Elzbieta Bienkowska rejects a German request to rewrite EU rules on defeat devices used by carmakers. National enforcement is the problem, not EU law, she tells transport ministers.
British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens living in the UK have until 23:59 BST on Tuesday to register online if they want to vote on whether the UK stays in the EU or leaves. Turnout is likely to be crucial to the outcome of the referendum.
Nato has begun three military drills designed to show that it is ready to defend its eastern allies from Russia.
Nato and the EU are stronger with the UK inside, the military alliance's chief has said. Latest polls say most Brits now want to leave the bloc.
Germany and Sweden have been invited to lead a global summit on ways to alleviate the world's refugee crisis. The summit will be held in New York in September on the initiative of US president Barack Obama. It will be also be hosted by Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan and Mexico.
Ukraine's ambassador to Slovakia, Oleh Havasi, was sacked on 4 June after a relative of one of his diplomats tried to smuggle 60,000 packages of cigarettes as diplomatic mail. In March, Kiev dismissed Borys Zaychuk, its ambassador in Prague for links to a Ukrainian-Lebanese arms trader. Both men were nominated by Ukraine's ex-president Viktor Yanukovych.
Macedonia's president has withdrawn pardons for top political and administrative officials that he had issued on 12 April. The EU had urged Gjorge Ivanov to cancel the blanket amnesty given to 56 politicians, most of whom had been under investigation by a special prosecutor.
The EU Commission's president is selected from candidates presented by parties in the EU Parliament. It is a power grab at the expense of elected national leaders.
Neither sanctions, EU law nor politics can stop the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from being built, its small army of European lobbyists has said.