More than 90 percent of the children who came to Italy's shores as refugees or migrants in 2016 had travelled there without their parents, Unicef said on Friday. According to the agency, that was the case for 25,800 or 91 percent of the total 28,200. Unicef also noted that the number of lone minors had more than doubled from the 2016 figure, which was 12,360.
A Russia-backed warlord could start a “civil war” in Libya, increasing refugee flows to Europe, Malta, the new EU presidency, has said.
The outgoing US ambassador to the EU, Anthony L Gardner, says Trump's transitional team had placed a call to officials at the EU institutions asking which member state would be next to leave the European Union.
The EU must take better care of its own security in the Trump era and must establish control of immigration, German chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
A number of British ministers don’t believe that Brexit hard or soft will cause London to lose its place as Europe’s financial capital.
The former prime minister of Kosovo and ex-rebel leader Ramush Haradinaj was released in France Thursday. He cannot leave the country until a court decision whether to extradite him to Serbia, where he is wanted for alleged war crimes. Haradinaj was detained over a week ago based on a Serbian warrant from 2004. He served as commander in the 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict. He dismissed the court procedure as a "circus".
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday accused Italy's Fiat Chrysler carmaker of using secret software allowing illegal emissions from at least 104,000 diesel vehicles. Volkswagen earlier accepted to pay the US $4.3bn in fines and $16bn to American diesel car owners for cheating with diesel emissions certification testing. Six Volkswagen executives face criminal charges in the US.
The EU-Canada free trade agreement received backing from the European parliament's environment and public safety committee on Thursday. The support increases the chance it will enter into force later this year. The committee voted 40 to 24 in favour of the deal. In December, the employment committee rejected the agreement. The trade committee will also hold a vote in January before all 751 MEPs cast their ballot on the deal.
Belgium has charged two new suspects with providing false documents to Khalid Bakraoui, a man linked to the November 2015 Paris attacks, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Bakraoui later blew himself up on the Brussels metro, while his brother Ibrahim and another man carried out the attack at the Brussels airport in 2016. The suspects identified as Farid K. and Meryem E.B. were arrested during an anti-terror raid Tuesday in Brussels.
German media has been denied access to cover a conference of Europe's nationalist parties in Koblenz, Germany, on 21 January. The conference is organised via the European Parliament's Europe of Nations and Freedom group. German public broadcaster ARD said Thursday it may take legal action after it was refused access.
Marine Le Pen reportedly did not meet with anyone from the Donald Trump team following her unannounced appearance at the Trump Tower in Manhattan.
