The head of the European Parliament is to return to German national politics next year.
Martin Schulz is giving up the European Parliament to return to politics
The leader of the parliament’s centre-right group Manfred Weber urged pro-European groups to rally behind a joint candidate as the assembly’s next president.
Migrants and police clash after Bulgaria’s main refugee centre is temporarily sealed off.
In less than two weeks, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi might become the next victim of the current anti-establishment global trend, as Italians vote on a controversial referendum seen as plebiscite on Renzi himself.
Ex-prime ministers Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe both outpolled Sarkozy in the conservative presidential primary
Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in 2017. She declared that she was running for re-election to defend “our values and way of life”. Thanks above all to a lack of competition she has good chances of winning another term in office, commentators write. However they see expectations that she will become the leader of the free world as overoptimistic.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces she will run for a fourth term in office.
The refugee crisis, the election of Donald Trump, the UK’s Brexit vote and the ever-present threat of terrorism, mean current conditions seem right for EU governments to take steps toward deeper military coordination or even integration, writes Richard Maher.
Choice of next German president, however ceremonial the office may be, has been seen as a barometer of the political status quo ahead of next year’s elections.
Obama embraces Merkel in Germany visit, wishes EU to stand united
US President Barack Obama gave a strong endorsement of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and used a visit to Berlin yesterday (17 November) to warn Russia about consequences for intervening in the US election and prod Donald Trump to hold firm against Moscow.
Romanian police have smashed, with the help of European law enforcement agencies, a computer fraud gang accused of stealing millions of euros from unsuspecting victims, officials said Thursday (17 November)
The Hungarian government yesterday (17 November) explained that EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger’s controversial flight to Budapest on board a Kremlin lobbyist’s private jet took place as part of Hungary’s contacts with the businessman.
A report suggests that children run away because their asylum claims have been rejected, and they don’t want to be deported.
Britain’s Higher Education Bill paves the way for dodgy universities in the UK.
A migrant camp on the Greek island of Chios is attacked with petrol bombs, fireworks and stones.
Europe’s refugee and economic crises have created conditions for the far-right to exploit Trump’s success.
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Yasar University, Hacettepe University and Middle East Technical University between 2007 and 2015. Now, she is working as part-time instructor in Middle East Technical University, Economics Department. She is expected to work as post-doctoral research associate in the University of York, UK, beginning from March 2016. Her main interests are health economics, education economics, microeconometrics, labor economics, applied microeconomic theory, time series and international economics. Dr. Karaoglan has publications on female labor force participation and international economics in SSCI journals.
