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UK Labour offers May cross-party deal on Brexit

Uk labour makes brexit offer to may as future in balance copy

Bloomberg The UK Labour Party accused Theresa May of lacking the support within her Conservative Party to deliver a Brexit that will protect jobs, offering her a cross-party deal that will only add to pressure on the embattled prime minister. Keir Starmer, the party’s Brexit spokesman, wrote to May on Monday telling her there was a “sensible majority” in Parliament ...

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Merkel enters final stretch of initial talks to form government

Continuation of the exploratory talks to form a new government

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel is entering the final stretch of preliminary talks to form a new government as factions in the complex multi-party negotiations remain far apart on issues including migration, climate and European policy. Entering a fifth week of negotiations between Merkel’s Christian Democrats, her Bavarian CSU sister party, the pro-market Free Democrats and the environmental Greens, the ...

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N Korea must send clear sign of change: Seoul

National assembly foreign affairs and unification committee hearing in seoul

Bloomberg North Korea, a country in a “time warp” that feeds paranoia at home with propaganda about a hostile world, could secure its future by laying the groundwork for talks on its nuclear weapons program, according to South Korea’s foreign minister. While Kang Kyung-wha welcomed a two month hiatus in North Korean provocations after a rapid-fire series of missile tests ...

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