Monday
19th Jun 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Helmut Kohl, who was German chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and supervised the German reunification after the fall of the Berlin wall, died on Friday, aged 87. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said that Kohl "built bridges to the West and to the East" and "never ceased to design better plans for the future of Europe". Kohl was "a great European" without whom "there would be no euro".
French president is expected to win a three-fifths majority in parliament on Sunday, but he will have to manage an unruly group of MPs in a socially unstable country.
Before focusing on citizens' rights, negotiators Barnier and Davis will discuss - in French and English - about the structure of talks in their first official negotiating session in Brussels on Monday.
The outcome of the Eurogroup meeting this week leaves a positive footprint, setting the basis for the Greek economy to exit the vicious circle of austerity and debt.
Trust is perhaps the most important resource and the key to building successes, but new Nordic research indicates that challenges may lie ahead in the digital age.
In a debate in Prague, EU commission vice president Timmermans and Czech foreign affairs minister Zaoralek expressed sharp divergences.
Germany and Austria have urged the US not to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2, a Russian gas pipeline, in stark terms that spoke of ending joint action on Ukraine.
