European Council president Donald Tusk said on Thursday that "the only real alternative to a 'hard Brexit' is 'no Brexit'." At an event in Brussels organised by the European Policy Center, he said that once talks start with the UK, "there will be no EU cake on the table, only salt and vinegar."
The German constitutional court has cleared the way for the ratification of the Canada-EU trade deal for now, but Belgium's region of Wallonia is still an obstacle to its signature.
The Scottish first minister said that a bill for a referendum would be published next week and attacked the British prime minister over her EU exit positions.
The European boarder and coast guard agency will carry out border tests in Finland, Germany, and Slovenia before launching probes for all EU states next year.
Cars that run on petrol or diesel are meant to be a rarity by the year 2050. Progress is slow. But some Nordic cities have radical visions of how a "Hyperloop" could change that.
The EU’s four largest remaining powers after Brexit aim to create a new military wing to manage crisis missions in Africa and to deter Russia.
Incidents of racist or religious abuse rose 41% in the UK in the month after the Brexit vote in June, the British home office said Thursday. It said there were 3,886 incidents in July last year, but 5,468 in July this year. It also noted a 12% increase in homophobic incidents. A gay rights charity, Galop, earlier this week recorded a 147% increase in homophobic incidents from July to September.
Scotland's government will publish proposals for another referendum on independence next week, first minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday. She told the Scottish Nationalist Party conference that she was "determined that Scotland will have the ability to reconsider the question of independence - and to do so before the UK leaves the EU - if that is necessary to protect our country's interests".
Germany's constitutional court ruled on Thursday that the EU-Canada trade agreement Ceta can enter into force provisionally after approval by the EU Council. Activist groups had argued that Ceta must first be voted on by MPs or it would breach the constitution by excluding citizens from decision-making. But the court said Germany should retain a right to pull out of the agreement.
EU diplomats are in talks on whether to expand sanctions on Syria and Russia over the bombardment of Aleppo, but there is unlikely to be a quick decision.
Focus on migration is shifting towards stopping flows from Africa with plans to cut deals with handful of origin countries before the end of the year.
EU employees have gathered 152,000 signatures on a petition calling for managers to stop taking jobs in big business. The executive's response left them even more angry.
The parliament of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels approved a resolution against Ceta. The Walloon parliament could do the same on Friday.
A legal challenge to force the British government to seek parliamentary approval before kicking off the formal process of leaving the EU begins on Thursday. Prime minister Theresa May said her government would trigger Article 50 by the end of next March without a parliamentary vote. Those leading the challenge say she is acting beyond her legal power.
Angela Merkel's cabinet on Wednesday approved a new bill that would deny welfare benefits to unemployed citizens of other EU nations for five years. According to Germany's Federal Labor Agency, 440,000 non-German EU nationals received social welfare in January this year, representing around a tenth of the 4.1 million EU immigrants living in Germany.
After centuries of development, the European model of cities is trying to put people first.
Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon will use her party conference speech to cast herself as the leader of political opposition in Britain to a "hard Brexit". She will tell Scottish National Party delegates that prime minister Theresa May's direction is "economic recklessness". Sturgeon will try to unite MPs from Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservatives.
A Syrian suspected of planning an airport attack in Berlin has killed himself in his prison cell, German officials say. Jaber al-Bakr was arrested in Leipzig on Monday after three Syrian refugees turned him in. The 22-year-old was on hunger strike and was under 24-hour surveillance, according to Der Spiegel. Bakr was granted asylum after arriving in Germany last year from Damascus province.
