Chinese spies have targeted Belgian biological warfare and vaccine experts, Belgium’s security service suspects. They are also targeting British pharmaceutical giant and vaccine-maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Belgium and Belgian high-tech firms, Belgian intelligence fears. The suspicions were detailed in confidential Belgian reports dated from 2010 to 2016, seen by EUobserver. They were meant to alert […]
EU’s New Chief Scientist Quits, Blames Extremely Poor Coronavirus Response…
Professor Mauro Ferrari, the European Union’s top scientist, has resigned as president of the European Research Council after criticising the political bloc’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus. Professor Ferrari submitted his resignation to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday saying: “I have been extremely disappointed by the European response to COVID-19.” The […]
Coronavirus: The European Union Unravels…
Faced with an existential threat, EU member states, far from joining together to confront the pandemic as a unified bloc, instinctively are returning to pursuing the national interest. After years of criticizing U.S. President Donald J. Trump for pushing an “America First” policy, European leaders are reverting to the very nationalism they have publicly claimed […]
European Union To Ban Non-Essential Travel Into Europe…
The gradual but accelerating “quarantining” of the world into its constituent parts to halt the spread of the Coronavirus just took a major step moments ago, when the FT reported that European countries plan a ban on entry to the 26-state Schengen passport free travel zone in the most radical response yet to the continent’s […]
European Travel to U.S. Suspended…
Farage Declares ‘The War Is Over! We Have Won!’ at Brexit Day London Rally…
Addressing a crowd gathered in Parliament Square in London, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told fellow Brexiteers “the war is over” as Britain formally leaves the European Union. Former MEP Farage addressed a crowd of thousands gathered in Parliament Square in Westminster to celebrate the formal exit of the United Kingdom from the political bloc […]
Cheers, Tears, and Singing as UK Lawmakers Leave European Parliament for Last Time…
The U.K.’s raging divisions over Brexit showed few signs of dissipating as the country’s elected representatives in Brussels bowed in fractious style—with tears, laughter, and singing. Most of the U.K.’s 73 members of the European Parliament left their seats for the last time moments after the chamber voted overwhelmingly by 621 in favour to 49 […]
Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law…
The withdrawal agreement bill has been given Royal Assent, meaning it has become law and the UK will officially leave the EU on January 31st, 2020. Deputy speaker Nigel Evans read out in the House of Commons on Thursday: “I have to announce to the House in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that […]
Just 1,295 Days After the Referendum, Brexit Deal Finally Passes House of Commons…
The EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill passed a vote in the House of Commons Thursday afternoon, three and a half years, three Prime Ministers, and three national elections after the British people voted to leave the European Union in June 2016. The bill, which will sign into law Boris Johnson’s hastily concluded withdrawal agreement with the […]
UK on Track for Jan. 31 Brexit as PM Johnson Wins Vote on Deal…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in parliament on Dec. 20, the first step toward fulfilling his election pledge to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union by Jan. 31 after his landslide victory. Lawmakers voted by 358 to 234 to pass the second reading of the legislation, underlining Johnson’s large […]
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