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The Turkish government has announced that for the next 72 hours it will open its border with Syria and allow any and all migrants to go to Europe unhindered.

Italy’s patient one was forced to wait 36 hours before he was tested, potentially losing precious time in preventing the spread of the virus.

Former Brexit secretary David Davis has signalled that good news for Brexiteers lays ahead in the coming trade deal negotiations with the EU.

Authorities in western Germany said Wednesday that a man who contracted COVID-19 is in critical condition and has been taken to hospital.

The EU will not impose border controls to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, despite hundreds of cases being confirmed in Italy.

Former Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini attacked the nation’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, on Tuesday over the coronavirus outbreak.

French authorities detained Italian bus passengers on Monday over fears of the coronavirus after the driver was taken ill.

To the surprise of literally no one, the European Union has discarded Irish leader Leo Varadkar like a soiled rag now that he is no longer of any use to it.

The British passport is changing colour from European maroon to British navy, with the new revised design revealed by the PM on social media.

A second day of negotiating over the post-Brexit EU budget is looking to end again in deadlock with member-states split between the “Frugals”, who want less spending; the poorer, mostly former Soviet satellite states who want more money; and the European Parliament which wants the budget period increased to a massive €1.32 trillion to help turn the EU carbon neutral.

The British government has challenged the European Union’s “posturing” on a potential trade deal at the end of the 2020 Brexit “transition” and baited its chief negotiator on Twitter.

The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said that the UK cannot have the same trading arrangements as Canada because Britain is a major economy on Europe’s doorstep and poses a competitive threat.

In his meeting today in Brussels, Sadiq Khan, the Europhile mayor of London, will lobby for the European Union to grant “associate citizenship” for Britons, allowing continued free movement within the bloc.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recited a litany of successes in his state-of-the-nation address Sunday, arguing that “the last ten years were the most successful ten years in Hungary’s last 100 years.”

What a future trade deal should look like will leave the UK and EU ripping each other apart at the negotiating table, according to claims.

Growth ground to a halt at the end of the year in Germany, Europe´s largest economy, as manufacturing remained in a slump and exports fell.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Union warned Thursday that the spread of the viral outbreak in China is a risk for the economy but that its full impact will depend on how long it lasts and how far it spreads.

BERLIN (AP) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will testify Thursday before a German parliamentary committee investigating whether there was wrongdoing in the use of external experts during her time as defense minister. Von der Leyen was Germany’s

MEPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of making the United Kingdom obey by European Union regulations when the transition period ends in December 2020 as the cost of Brussels agreeing on a free trade agreement with London.

The return of the British blue passport could happen as early as March, which will “symbolise our national identity” has been regained.

A top UN official warned that Europe will face a new migrant crisis if the situation in Lebanon, a country that has been ravaged an economic crisis and internal strife, is not resolved before it becomes a failed state.

European Union member states want to be able to suspend elements of a future trade deal with the UK as part of their arsenal of punishments should Britain disobey rulings by a dispute panel overseeing the agreement.

The European Commission has reported a Brexit day stunt promoted by the First Minister of Scotland to the police in Belgium.

The United Kingdom has announced the creation of up to ten “free ports” throughout the country, in a move that Boris Johnson’s government says will “turbocharge” the post-Brexit economy by creating thousands of new jobs in undeveloped regions, boost trade, and remove costly red tape and regulations.

(AFP) — Greece will only grant refugee protection for three years as it struggles to integrate foreigners, the conservative government’s migration minister Notis Mitarachi said in remarks published Sunday.

(AFP) — British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Japanese counterpart agreed Saturday to seek an “ambitious, high standard” trade accord matching Japan’s agreement with the EU.

“I was advised today that the President intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” Sondland said in a statement.

Conservative parliamentarian Daniel Kawczysnki received a “formal warning” from the Conservative Party after a drive to “cancel” him for giving a speech at a conservative conference attended by Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini.

Down one country, the EU is proposing a new system for adding members as the bloc eyes two Western Balkan nations.

TEL AVIV – The European Union has announced it will not accept any Israeli attempt to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, following President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan which supports Israeli sovereignty in those areas. 

Nigel Farage said that Brexit will act as a “good omen” for President Donald Trump’s re-election, just as it did after the referendum vote in 2016.

The middle class are finding it harder to draft in cheap foreign au pairs from the European Union to look after their children and homes since the Brexit vote.

Marine Le Pen congratulated the UK for regaining its “freedom” but went on to say that Brexit was a “terrifying failure” for the EU.

The EU’s chief negotiator on a UK trade agreement, Michel Barnier, has said there will be no trade deal without EU access to British territorial fishing waters.

Boris Johnson has called for a Canada-style FTA with the EU and said that he would rather accept tariffs than restrictive regulations.

Belgian police have reportedly shot a woman who was attacking people with a knife in Ghent, Belgium.