BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron on euro zone reforms does not violate the coalition agreement, as some Bavarian conservatives have suggested, an aide to the German leader said. Chancellery Minister Helge Braun underscored Germany’s determination to maintain control and avoid turning the euro zone into a “debt union” […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Italy on Saturday said “arrogant” France risked becoming its “No.1 enemy” on migration issues, a day before European leaders convene in Brussels for a hastily arranged meeting on the divisive topic. In answer to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said migration flows toward Europe had reduced compared with a few […]
By Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Around 100,000 supporters of the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand that the British government hold a final public vote on the terms of Brexit, organizers said. Protesters packed the main arteries of the capital, waving British, Irish and European flags and colorful banners to […]
By Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin hosted the first official visit by a South Korean president to Russia since 1999 on Friday, in the latest of a series of meetings he has secured with international guests on the sidelines of the soccer World Cup. Increasingly isolated on the global stage, Putin has […]
LONDON (Reuters) – A campaigner has lost a legal bid to force the British government to introduce gender-neutral passports. Christie Elan-Cane had argued at the High Court that the current policy requiring applicants to choose from the categories of male and female is “inherently discriminatory”. Elan-Cane wanted passports to have an “X” category, for those […]
By Jonathan Shenfield LONDON (Reuters) – Winston Robinson journeyed to Britain from the Caribbean as a child of the Windrush generation in the 1960s but found his new life wrecked by a bureaucratic nightmare that left him anxious and despairing. As Britain tightened its regime against illegal immigrants, the former ambulance driver found himself out […]
By Anu Shukla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain marked 70 years since the first post-war migrants from the Caribbean arrived on the Empire Windrush with a thanksgiving service on Friday which took on extra meaning after many were revealed to have been wrongly identified as illegal immigrants. Two months ago, Britain apologized for its “appalling” treatment […]
By Catherine Lagrange LYON, France (Reuters) – The niece of far-right leader Marine Le Pen launched a political academy on Friday that she hopes will serve as a “finishing school” for would-be luminaries on France’s right wing, but denied she was plotting a political comeback. Marion Marechal withdrew from party politics after her aunt’s bruising […]
By Maayan Lubell and Rinat Harash JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prince William’s tour of Israel and the Palestinian Territories is the first official visit by a member of the royal family, but the Holy Land is familiar ground to the British state. An older generation of Israelis and Palestinians can still remember British soldiers patrolling the […]
