A group of Central European EU members known as the Visegrad Four is ready to veto any Brexit deal that would limit people's right to work in the UK, Slovakian PM Robert Fico says. In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Mr Fico said Hungary, ...

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel leave the cruise ship on Danube river during the European Union summit - the first one since Britain voted to quit - in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 16, 2016. REUTERS/Yves ...

Britain will invoke Article 50, triggering the process to leave the European Union, in January or February EU Officials have claimed, following confidential talks with the Prime Minister Theresa May. Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council ...

Yes, minister: David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA. Saturday 17 September 2016 19.05 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email · Share on LinkedIn · Share on Google+ · Share on WhatsApp ...

RIVEN by crisis and recrimination, the European Union has lost its way in recent years. The European Union was in a “critical situation” after Britain's unprecedented vote in June to leave the club, warned Angela Merkel, the normally sober German ...

Four European countries will veto any Brexit deal restricting their citizens' rights to work in Britain. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA. Jon Henley European affairs correspondent. @jonhenley. Saturday 17 September 2016 16.01 EDT Last modified on ...

May Tusk Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (L) greets European Council President Donald Tusk in Downing Street in London, Britain September 8, 2016. Reuters. European Council president Donald Tusk revealed that Britain's prime minister Theresa ...

Just to be clear, the UK's imminent departure from the European Union was not on the agenda here in Bratislava this week. Indeed so emphatically, unequivocally, absolutely was it not on the agenda that it was quite difficult to think of anything else ...

The European Union wants to bring free high-speed internet to all of its residents. In the annual state of the union address, Jean-Claude Juncker the president of the E.U. proposed an initiative that would give every European country free wireless ...

A group of Eastern European countries will veto any Brexit deal that diminishes the rights of their citizens who live and work in Britain, Slovakia's prime minister has said. Robert Fico said the Visegrad Four (V4) - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland ...

2016-09-17 According to the Italian Ministry of Defence, Italy is looking to expand European defense efforts in the context of the Brexit dynamic. Minister Pinotti, during a joint interview with Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni to French ...

Perched dramatically on the hill above the Slovak capital of Bratislava stands Bratislava castle, once the royal seat of the Hungarian empire. The location of yesterday's meeting of European Union leaders was rich in symbolism. For decades Bratislava ...

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, alight after taking a boat down the Danube river during an EU summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. An EU ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the EU summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 16, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger. By John Lloyd. For Angela Merkel, it was an uncommon note of pessimism. The German chancellor, to whom all in Europe look to ...

UK is a notable absence as 27 leaders gather to discuss reforms, how to handle Brexit. (Source: TASR). Font size:A^-|A⁺ 4. With central Bratislava in virtual lockdown September 16 leaders from 27 European Union states gathered to discuss the future of ...

The European Union is ready to start negotiations on Britain's exit from the bloc immediately, despite London's decision to delay triggering the divorce process, the Union's president Donald Tusk has said.

Bratislava, Slovakia: The EU is ready to start negotiations on Britain's exit from the bloc immediately, despite London's decision to delay triggering the divorce process, the union's president Donald Tusk said Friday. Speaking at a summit in ...

EU Council President Donald Tusk told European leaders Brexit resulted from the “failures” of British politicians, as he invited them to discuss the UK's departure from the Union. He said anti-EU politicians often launched attacks on Europe to cover up ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande met in Paris, September 15, for talks ahead of a crucial meeting of EU leaders - except Britain - in Bratislava, Slovakia, where the migrant crisis and Brexit will dominate the agenda. Merkel and ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told leaders the European Union is in a "critical situation" post-Brexit, as the EU's remaining states met on Friday to discuss the future of the EU. Key points: EU leaders meet without Britain for the first time ...

Germany's chancellor and France's president agreed Thursday that their joint priorities for an informal European Union summit taking place Friday in Slovakia include ensuring Europe's security and fighting terrorism. Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande ...

AFTER BREXIT. (L-R) President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Andrej Danko, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovak President Andrej Kiska, President of the ...

Paris: German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday on EU leaders meeting this week without Britain to come up with a "realistic" plan for Europe that reflects the bloc's "concerns, hopes and desires." File photo of Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande.

The leaders of the “EU 27” are meeting in Bratislava on Friday in a bid to reinvigorate the European Union following Britain's vote to leave on June 23. The summit on the banks of the Danube will be a symbolic moment where, for the first time in 43 ...