TAG: Migration
2023: The year in figures and charts
2023 was marked by crisis, transition and conflict.As the war in Ukraine dragged into its second yea...
8 months ago
Europe needs more cash, Belgian PM says
The European Union needs more of its own money, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told POLITI...
8 months ago
How a group of elderly Swiss women could take the UK out of the European Court
LONDON — In politics, timing is everything. And the European Court of Human Rights’ shock ruling on climate targets this week could hardly have been more explosive for a British political landscape already gripped by election fever. In a landmark ruling T...
6 months ago
Germany wants a Brexit mega deal
LONDON — Keir Starmer has said he wants a broad new security agreement with the EU. It could end up being very broad indeed.Berlin wants to turn the British prime minister’s proposed security pact into a veritable Brexit mega deal: encompassing everything...
2 months ago
UK ‘nowhere near’ renegotiating trade deal with EU, says David Lammy
LONDON — The Labour government has promised to “reset relations” with the European Union, eight tumultuous years after the U.K. voted to leave the bloc.But speaking on Thursday morning, just hours before he was preparing to welcome dozens of European lead...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
The UK’s Brexit dream is dead
LONDON — British voters head to the polls Thursday for their first general election outside the European Union. But in so many ways, the Brexit dream has already died.All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage. Five years after winning a landsl...
2 months ago
Europe’s southerners want Brussels to save them from climate change
ATHENS — They make an odd couple: a Harvard-educated Greek conservative and a Spanish eco-socialist.But Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Teresa Ribera are united by a concern which is driving a wedge between Europe’s climate-hit south and the less-affected north.T...
2 months ago
UK’s Starmer wants to ‘turn a corner on Brexit’
BERLIN — Keir Starmer wants Europe to know Britain is back. The new U.K. prime minister is pledging to “turn a corner on Brexit” while on a diplomatic mission to Berlin and Paris.The Labour leader sees meetings with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Frenc...
1 month ago
German businesses fear far right success will scare off much-needed workers
The far right’s landmark victory in a regional German election last weekend wasn’t just a slap in the face for the federal government in Berlin: It was a disaster for a business and financial establishment trying to stop Germany’s economic decline.The far...
1 month ago
You cannot be serious! Europe’s next migration chief was a tennis hotshot
BRUSSELS — Magnus Brunner, selected as the next European commissioner for migration, is so good at tennis he once beat a future U.S. Open champion.“He was a tough opponent, and he always made life difficult for me on the court,” Julian Knowle, who won the...
3 weeks ago
EU aims to butter up Keir Starmer with revamp of youth mobility scheme for Brits
LONDON — The EU could modify its plan for a youth mobility scheme with the U.K. to make the idea more politically palatable to Keir Starmer, under an approach being discussed in Brussels.Changes to the original blueprint presented by the European Commissi...
2 weeks ago
British government split over new-look Brexit deal
LONDON — Keir Starmer heads to Brussels Wednesday on a mission fraught with political danger: the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme.For some, the revived plan would be a joyous breakthrough after years of testy relations between the European Union a...
2 weeks ago
Brexit talks are back — forever
BRUSSELS — Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen agreed to hold regular U.K.-EU summits on the future of the cross-Channel relationship.In effect, Brexit talks are back for good.After their first bilateral meeting since Starmer took power, the European Co...
1 week ago