By Lord Richard Balfe, a former British MEP* There is something fundamentally depressing about the forthcoming Euro elections. The first that the UK will not be involved with. Yet in a way we will be involved because the outcome will shape our relations with each other. The EU Commission has recently outlined a youth mobility […]
A British Royal Navy ship will supply aid to Gaza as part of an international effort to help set up a new humanitarian maritime corridor in early May, the foreign office and ministry of defense said on Saturday.
On Tuesday 26 March 2024, the Secretariat of the National Federa-tion of Cypriots in the UK hosted a farewell dinner in honour of the High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus in the UK, Mr Andreas Kakouris. Also in attendance at the dinner was Bambos Charalambous, MP for Enfield Southgate. The Secretariat expressed its thanks […]
By Martin Banks The move has been greeted by those who are campaigning in Britain for the creation of overseas parliamentary constituencies.
By Martin Banks The EU and UK are set to “deepen” their links – at least in the research field.
By Denis MacShane, former Europe Minister in the UK. When Tony Blair was prime minister every fellow head of government wanted to meet him. Rishi Sunak is not quite in that league but a British PM is a figure of power and influence in geo-politics and usually worth a photo-call.
UK Foreign Minister Lord Ahmad has said that the British government welcomes the diplomatic understanding announced on 9 October with regard to the village of Pyla, where the intention of the Turkish Cypriot side to construct a new road had caused tension and led to physical attacks against UN equipment and personnel.
Should the opposition Labour party win the next UK election, it would take the country back into the EU’s Dublin Agreement, which regulates how countries decide on asylum applications, as part of a series of moves to bring the UK closer to the bloc, though without seeking to rejoin.
The Government of Argentina has announced on Tuesday the repeal of the authorization to the United Kingdom of the air service from Sao Paulo (Brazil) to the disputed Falkland Islands, with a stopover in the Argentine city of Cordoba.
Officials continue to inch towards an agreement on the status of Gibraltar, the rocky enclave at the southernmost tip of Spain, following the latest round of talks in London between officials from the UK, Gibraltar, Spain and the European Commission on Thursday and Friday (26,27 January).
