Friday, 08 July 2016 10:05
EU’s post-Brexit paralysis
Two weeks after the British referendum vote, the European Union is still reeling from the result. In Brussels and Strasbourg a strange sense of paralysis has taken hold, as the mysterious momentum that propels the EU…
Friday, 08 July 2016 10:00
EU coastguard and border force approved
The European Parliament has agreed to set up a new border and coast guard agency to help countries cope with unusually high levels of migration. The force of 1,500 guards will be able to deploy even…
Friday, 01 July 2016 08:41
Europe post-Brexit
After talks in Berlin this week, the leaders of Italy, Germany and France have ruled out any informal talks with Britain on leaving the EU, raising the prospect of a lengthy political vacuum within the EU.…
Friday, 24 June 2016 10:54
'Islam has no place in my country'
Slovakia takes over the six-month EU presidency on 1July. Robert Fico, Slovakia's prime minister, says that ‘migrants change the character of our country’ and ‘multiculturalism is a fiction’. Fico has argued that Slovakia has no obligation…
Friday, 24 June 2016 10:40
IS fighters heading for Europe
On Wednesday Belgian police received an anti-terror alert warning that a group of Islamic State fighters recently left Syria and are planning attacks in Belgium and France. There are no immediate plans to raise the security…
Friday, 24 June 2016 10:33
Football and Christian outreach
Paul Moynan, a policy advisor working in the European Parliament and the writer of Canopy of Prayer, asks us not only to continue to pray for the safety of the Euro 2016 tournament but also to…