northern ireland

Engineers have worked through the night to try to reconnect remaining homes and businesses that lost power during Storm Eleanor on Tuesday night.

Winds gusting up to 100 mph caused flooding, travel disruption and damage to buildings, and fallen trees blocked several roads, reported BBC.

Thousands of households are without electricity because of the storm Elinor, which has reached the UK. The most severely affected are Northern Ireland, the northern regions of England and the southwest coast of Scotland. In some places the speed of the winds reaches 130 km / h. Streets in several Northern Ireland villages are flooded, there are closed roads because of fallen trees.

Britain's talks on exiting the European Union cannot progress, as London wishes, to trade relations until it give more clarity on what will happen at its border with Ireland, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Friday, qupted by Reuters. 

Thousands of people marched through London on July 1 to protest over austerity and demand Prime Minister Theresa May's government resign after its disastrous showing in last month's election.     

''The attack near the mosque in Finsbury Park in London is defined as a potential terrorist attack'', the Bulgarian ambassador to the UK and Northern Ireland, Konstantin Dimitrov, said, according to  FOCUS News Agency.

So far, there is no information about injured Bulgarians.

British Prime Minister Theresa May began talks yesterday to form an alliance with Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative DUP party in order to cling to power after her election fiasco, leaving the EU's Brexit negotiator wondering when divorce talks will begin.

The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias gave an interview on Alpha Radio, and he said some really interesting things:

M. NIKOLTSIOU: Minister, good morning and thank you for being with us.

N. KOTZIAS: Good morning from Kozani. I hope yours is a beautiful Saturday.

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier insisted May 3 the bloc was not punishing Britain as London firmly rejected a reported 100 billion euro exit bill.

Barnier warned however against the "illusion" that leaving the European Union would be quick or painless, urging Britain to start talks as soon as possible after its general election in June.

Spain is likely to wield a veto over any Brexit deal for Gibraltar after the EU-27 backed Madrid in its draft negotiating guidelines for forthcoming divorce talks between the UK and the bloc.
Gibraltar is a disputed territory, which Britain has held for centuries. For the UK, any Brexit deal would automatically apply to Gibraltar, since it claims it as British territory.

Northern Ireland has the right to leave the United Kingdom and join the European Union as part of the Republic after Brexit, ministers have conceded for the first time, writes The Times.