Alastair Macdonald
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Football: 'Competitive' Scotland can improve for big Euros test
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Scotland have improved in Steve Clarke's first two games in charge and can get better for their European qualifiers at home to Group I favourites Belgium and Russia in three months, the coach has said. → Read More
Football: 'Competitive' Scotland can improve for big Euros test
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Scotland have improved in Steve Clarke's first two games in charge and can get better for their European qualifiers at home to Group I favourites Belgium and Russia in three months, the coach has said. → Read More
Cooks, crooks and videotape: Europe's new lawmakers
From a TV chef and stand-up comic to a man in jail and a former prime minister famed for raunchy mansion parties, the new European Parliament features no shortage of less than run-of-the-mill lobby fodder. → Read More
New EU: Timeline to handover
European Union leaders meet in Brussels on Tuesday, two days after an election to the European Parliament returned a more fragmented pro-EU center and stronger nationalist groups. → Read More
Europeans vote, with EU future in balance
Europeans vote on Sunday in an election expected to further dent traditional pro-EU parties and bolster the nationalist fringe in the European Parliament, putting a potential brake on collective action in economic and foreign policy. → Read More
Europe holds "most important" EU vote
Europeans start voting on Thursday in four days of elections to the EU parliament that will influence not just Brussels policy for the next five years but, to some extent, the very future of the Union project itself. → Read More
Game on for EU vote, but real fight comes after
On posters, hustings and social media, a battle for Europe is being fought, as contenders seek votes for an EU parliamentary election in late May - but the real battle for power will come only once the count is in. → Read More
Call us: West scrambles to talk to Ukraine's new leader
The European Union scrambled to get a call with Ukraine's president-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday as Western powers wondered whether the TV comic would heed their urgings to stick with reforms that they hope can anchor the country beyond the grip of Russia. → Read More
May evoked Blitz spirit to show EU Brexit progress
Theresa May told fellow European Union leaders that she was taking emergency political measures not seen in Britain since World War Two as she urged them to give her more time to clinch a deal for an orderly Brexit. → Read More
Weary EU set to give yet more time for Brexit
Brexit will not be on Friday, EU leaders will confirm when they meet British Prime Minister Theresa May at another crisis summit on Wednesday, but diplomats said they are still wrestling on how long it might be delayed and under what conditions. → Read More
Summitry Night Fever - Decoding the Brexit showdown
European summits, jaded Englishmen have said, are like soccer: they go into extra-time, and the Germans always win. → Read More
Keep Farage out: Weber wants no EU vote in UK
Europeans don't want Britons to vote in May's EU parliamentary election, the lead candidate for the center-right said on Friday, in part because Nigel Farage and other British euroskeptics would disrupt the Union. → Read More
EU leaders give Britain "last chance" for orderly Brexit
EU leaders on Friday said Britain had a final chance to leave the bloc in an orderly fashion, having given the UK parliament an April 12 deadline to offer a new plan or choose to quit the bloc without a treaty. → Read More
EU leaders give Britain 'last chance' for orderly Brexit
EU leaders on Friday said Britain had a final chance to leave the bloc in an orderly fashion, having given the UK parliament an April 12 deadline to offer a new plan or choose to quit the bloc without a treaty. → Read More
EU leaders to warn of cyber, fake news threat to May elections
European Union leaders will sound the alarm this week over the threat of EU elections in May being undermined by a coordinated campaign of fake news and disinformation by foreign powers. → Read More
EU leaders could avoid final call on Brexit delay this week: diplomats
European Union leaders could hold off making any final decision on any Brexit delay when they meet in Brussels later this week, senior diplomats in the bloc said, depending on what exactly British Prime Minister Theresa May asks them for. → Read More
EU's Tusk floats long Brexit delay before summit
European Union leaders will consider pressing Britain to delay Brexit by at least a year to find a way through its domestic deadlock, the chair of next week's EU summit said on Thursday. → Read More
'Cox killed it,' EU says of UK lawyer's failed mission to fix Brexit deal
Her back to the wall on Brexit, Theresa May turned to her legal adviser to rescue her deal with the EU - only to see Geoffrey Cox deliver it a mortal blow as parliament voted down the treaty for a second time. → Read More
'Cox killed it,' EU says of UK lawyer's failed mission to fix Brexit deal
Her back to the wall on Brexit, Theresa May turned to her legal adviser to rescue her deal with the EU - only to see Geoffrey Cox deliver it a mortal blow as parliament voted down the treaty for a second time. → Read More
Good riddance? EU's 'Brexit fatigue' limits UK extension options
Britain has just four weeks left as a member of the European Union. Or maybe not. Staying weeks, months, even years longer is the talk of London; but such ideas are getting a frosty hearing on the continent. → Read More