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LONDON (AFP) – The passage of a Brexit bill through parliament is reopening deep divisions among lawmakers in Britain’s opposition Labour party, as they struggle to reconcile their pro-European views with voter concerns over immigration.

A majority of the British public support the UK leaving the European Union (EU) single market, the first poll since the prime minister’s landmark Brexit speech has revealed.

The European Union is fast-tracking plans that will see British citizens offered the option to remain as EU citizens even after Britain leaves the Union, the European Parliament’s chief negotiator has confirmed. The deal would effectively give the British people

Angela Merkel has for the first time signalled that there may be some leeway on negotiating the free movement of people with Britain post-Brexit, in exchange for upholding tariff-free trade between Britain and the European Union.

Britain could shift her frontline immigration controls to Irish ports and airports in a bid to avoid a “hard border” being created with the state when Britain leaves the European Union (EU), a government minister has suggested.

The former Labour and Liberal Democrat leaders are leading a cross-party push to give parliament a final say on the ‘Breixt deal’, specifically keeping the UK in the Single Market and subject to unlimited mass migration.

(REUTERS) – The European Union’s executive said on Wednesday that emergency border checks introduced within Europe’s passport-free travel zone by countries including Germany and Sweden to stem a migrant influx were still justified even though arrival numbers have eased.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn — making the highest-level EU visit to Turkey since the coup — said that visa liberalisation for Turkey was still on the table after the attempted coup.

Well over a quarter of births in England and Wales over the past year were to women born outside the UK – the highest level on record – whilst births to UK born women fell by 0.4 per cent.

One of the UK’s largest bus operators has defended its practice of hiring only EU migrants for some rolls, whilst turning down fully qualified British workers.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she is looking forward to meeting Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May, and does not plan to put Mrs. May under any pressure when it comes to Brexit. But she has warned

A 14-year-old schoolgirl murdered by a Latvian convicted killer wrote a pro-European Union (EU) essay arguing that barring foreign criminals from entering the country was “racist” just four months before her death, it has emerged. Her parents, who support the

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s eurosceptic government has long said it would like Poles living in Britain to return home, but it is now promising to fight for their right to stay after the British vote to leave the European Union.

France has suggested a deal could be found whereby the UK can limit free movement of EU people but retain access to the Single Market.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has raised questions over Boris Johnson and leaders of the official Tory-led Vote Leave campaign, claiming that he believes they are “backsliding” over the referendum result. Mr. Farage implied the Tory figures are now

(Reuters) – Despite deep public misgivings in some countries, the European Union will this week drive forward a plan to grant Turks visa-free travel to Europe as a reward for having reduced a flood of refugees and migrants into Europe

(Reuters) – The European Union’s executive said on Wednesday it will propose on May 4 granting Turks visa-free travel to the bloc from late June in a deal under which it is to stop uncontrolled migration into Europe – provided

The government has been accused of burying a report which proves that Britain does not have control over her own borders while remaining a member of the European Union. The paper, entitled Rights and obligations of European Union membership confirms

Labour’s hard left Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has reasserted his belief that a borderless world is inevitable, claiming open borders would become a reality this century as some people are “ignoring” them already. Mr. McDonnell gave a speech in 2013 in which he

Outspoken liberal priest The Reverend Canon Giles Fraser has used his weekly Guardian column to denigrate the “neoliberal right” for championing the free movement of capital around the world while opposing the free movement of people, a position which he