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Ireland is the biggest victim of Brexit. In the absence of an agreement between Brussels and London, a hard border could be imposed between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which sounds as absurd as imposing a frontier across Luxembourg.

In the ten years that have passed since the fall of Lehman Brothers, Europe has improved its banking regulation but the financial system remains vulnerable. Europe commemorates the tenth anniversary with a solid growth. But experts consulted by EURACTIV.com warn...

This is not about the EU doing the UN's job. But instead about the EU being an active player in the security and stability of its Southern neighbourhood.

A form of skin inflammation, which could be linked to environmental factors, now affects two to three more times people in Europe than 40 years ago.

GCHQ, the British government's intelligence and security organisation, has breached human rights in its mass surveillance programme, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said in a landmark ruling on Thursday (13 September).

Country of 51,000 would "go bankrupt tomorrow" if it joined EU sanctions on Russia and lost fish exports in return, Faroese foreign minister, Poul Michelsen, says.

Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger flew to Rome on Thursday (13 September),  as part of a series of official visits he is doing to present the long-term EU budget (MFF) proposal. But he only talked to Italian deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Five Star Movement.

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The two men accused by Britain of carrying out the Skripal poisoning have given an interview to the pro-Kremlin TV station Russia Today. They were in Salisbury as tourists, they claimed, and had nothing to with the poison attack. For some commentators the interview was just a bad joke. Others empathise with the accused.

In the lira crisis the Turkish central bank in Ankara raised the interest rate from 17.75 percent to 24 percent on Thursday - a more drastic increase than experts had expected. Shortly before this Erdoğan had once again called for interest rates to be lowered and criticised the central bank. Commentators ask how independent the bank really is, and whether it will be able to continue defying the Turkish president in the long term.

French President Emmanuel Macron has presented a plan on fighting poverty in France. The plan includes expenditures to the tune of eight billion euros and shifts the focus from financial aid to social support. Macron is pulling all the right levers, some commentators write approvingly. For others the president has started to zigzag.