Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere warned Germans to be prepared for further attacks carried out by small groups and radicalised ‘lone wolves’. Five people were wounded by a 17-year-old on a train in Bavaria on Monday.…
EU’s post-Brexit paralysis
08 Jul 2016
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…
EU coastguard and border force approved
08 Jul 2016
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…
Europe post-Brexit
01 Jul 2016
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.…
'Islam has no place in my country'
24 Jun 2016
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…
IS fighters heading for Europe
24 Jun 2016
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…