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More than 1,500 people seeking protection in UK told they may be deported to safe countries under new immigration plans even though no returns mechanism is in place.more

The Swiss government said it was withdrawing from talks with the European Union on a comprehensive package of bilateral agreements. He added that after many years of negotiations, the parties did not reach agreement on key issues.more

China has overtaken Germany to become the UK's biggest single import market for the first time since records began. Goods imported from China rose 66% from the start of 2018 to £16.9bn ($24bn) in the first quarter of this year, the Office for National Statistics said.more

Russian citizen Sofia Sapiega, detained at the airport in Minsk after the forced landing of a Ryanair plane, is suspected of organizing mass riots and activities that seriously violate public order, reports the Russian "Novaya Gazeta". "There was a terrorist on the plane," says Alyaksandr Lukashenka, commenting on the landing of the Ryanair plane forced by the Belarusian authorities.more

Priti Patel has refused to say whether the government’s overhaul of the immigration system will cause a rise or fall in net migration.more

The EU on Monday agreed to slap new sanctions on Belarus, after Minsk forced a plane flying over its airspace to land in order to arrest a Belarusian dissident onboard.more

The Home Office is considering charging EU citizens and other travellers a fee to visit the UK under a new scheme that would further tighten restrictions on countries with whom Britain until recently had free movement.more

Following an agreement between the negotiators of the EU Council and the European Parliament, the European Commission has ensured that "EU digital Covid certificates" will generally be available to citizens from 1 July.more

Poland must comply with the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the temporary closure of the lignite mine in Turów, RMF FM reported yesterday after the spokeswoman of the European Commission Viviane Loonela. "We do not accept the CJEU's decision on the mine in Turów," wrote on Twitter Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin.more

European Union legislators and member countries found a compromise Thursday for launching COVID-19 certificates before the height of the summer holiday season, a move aimed at boosting travel and tourism following the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic.more

An application for international protection cannot be rejected as inadmissible on the ground that Norway has rejected an application for asylum from the same person earlier, the European Court of Justice concluded in today's judgment.more

In an opinion issued today, the advocate general of the CJEU, Michal Bobek stated that although EU law does not oppose the minister of justice making decisions on the delegation of judges, Polish practice in this area is "inconsistent with EU law.more

European Union leaders will urge Britain to respect the rights of their citizens, according to a draft of the statement they will agree at a summit next week, a reference to concerns about the handling of EU nationals by British immigration authorities. more

Ireland will oppose much of the European Commission’s plan for a more unified corporate tax regime across the bloc and believes it will be joined by many other sceptical member states, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Wednesday.more

The British government has suggested it could use the concept of force majeure to absolve it of its obligations to apply the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News understands.more

The EU is expected to allow fully vaccinated Brits to fly to Europe without needing to do a Covid test or quarantine, it has been reported. more

The UK is proposing to phase in new Irish Sea border checks on food products in four stages from October. The details are contained in a Northern Ireland Protocol roadmap shared with the EU, which has been seen by the BBC.more

The epidemiological situation causes staff shortages and forces companies in Germany and the Netherlands to fight for Polish employees - experts from the OTTO Work Force employment agency pointed out today. It was added that for seasonal workers this means, inter alia, increase in salaries.more

The vaccine passport - a document containing information about the vaccination, negative test or the presence of antibodies - should, according to the European Commission, facilitate travel within the Community. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, hopes that a political agreement will be reached by the end of May.more

One in 10 EU citizens living in the UK are thinking about leaving the country before the deadline to get settled status, a new survey has found. more

In 55 years, the divorce rate has more than doubled in Europe: from 0.8 per 1 thousand. people in 1964 to 1.8 in 2019 - Eurostat reported today. In the same period, the number of marriages per 1 thousand inhabitants fell from 8.0 to 4.3.more

Hubert Vedrine, France's longtime socialist foreign minister, said yesterday that "the European Union will no longer expand or deepen."more

The European Commission has raised the forecast of Poland's GDP growth in 2021 from 3.1%. up to 4 percent The EC also forecasts that in 2022 Poland's GDP will increase by 5.4 percent.more

The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has called for a halt to immigration across Europe for up to five years. The French politician said immigration in the EU was "not working”, adding that the bloc’s external borders had become a "sieve".more

Electric cars and vans will be cheaper to produce than conventional, fossil fuel-powered vehicles by 2027, and tighter emissions regulations could put them in pole position to dominate all new car sales by the middle of the next decade, research has found.more