The new hope for the UK being rescued from Brexit (as if there were any solution that not leave large swathes of the citizenry feeling bruised) is May’s handbag. I am not making that up. From The Times: “Theresa May will seek to emulate Margaret Thatcher by travelling to Brussels to demand a better Brexit […]
May Kicks Brexit Can Down the Road…
May Rushes to Brussels for Last-Minute Talks Ahead of Weekend Summit…
Following another boisterous PMQ Wednesday morning where the Prime Minister notably hinted at the possibility that Brexit could be “cancelled” following a question posed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (he asked if there are “no circumstances under which the UK will leave the EU without a deal”, to which the prime minister said killing her […]
Brussels, City of Spies…
Forget Vienna and Berlin. There’s another big nest of spies in Europe: Brussels. Suspicions among EU officials that the U.K. spied on them to obtain sensitive Brexit plans made headlines in Britain last week. But for many in the Brussels bubble, spying on both friends and foes is simply business as usual. For some foreign […]
Belgium: New Round of Brexit Talks Begin in Brussels…
British Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab is visiting Brussels Aug. 21-22 for Brexit talks with the European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, the Financial Times reported Aug. 21. The European Union and the United Kingdom are expected to discuss the latest British proposal for the terms of a future relationship with the European Union. A […]
EU President Donald Tusk Threatens U.S. President Trump: “appreciate your allies, after all you don’t have that many”…
Stunningly confrontational remarks today from EU President Donald Tusk as U.S. President Trump and First Lady Melania arrive in Brussels for a NATO summit. After destroying nationalistic Brexit plans for the U.K. to exit the European Union, the insufferable arrogance of the EU surfaces with pontificating snark. The EU might feel emboldened right now, but […]
EU Threatens $300 Billion Retaliation If U.S. Moves Ahead With Auto Tariffs…
More than a week after President Trump threatened to slap a 20% tariff on auto imports from the European Union, Brussels has issued a written warning to the US Department of Commerce with a threat of its own: If the Trump administration moves ahead with the auto tariffs, the bureaucrats in Brussels won’t hesitate to […]
Belgian Couple Arrested in Plot to Bomb Iranian Opposition Event Attended by Giuliani, Gingrich…
A Belgian couple and an apparent Iranian diplomat were among four people arrested over the weekend in connection with a planned bomb attack at a large rally held by Iranian opposition groups and attended by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, authorities in Brussels said Monday. The Iranian-heritage couple, identified only as 38-year-old Amir S. and […]
EU Heading for Disaster As Italy’s Populists Set to Join Forces to Destabilize Brussels…
Lega and the Five Star Movement could rise to power in a shocking change of direction for Italy in protest of years of painful rules from Brussels. Despite the deep ideological differences between the Eurosceptic party and fellow insurgents Five Star, Fabrizio Nusca, a vet and local official with Italy’s Lega party, believes an alliance […]
Fresh Terror in Brussels: Suspect Blows Himself Up at City’s Central Station…
A suspected suicide bomber who allegedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and triggered an explosive vest at Brussels Central Station has been gunned down and killed by soldiers. Shots rang out soon after 9pm as police and soldiers moved in ‘to neutralise a suspect who was threatening civilians,’ in what is being considered a terrorist incident. Initial […]