Xavier Bettel

EU leaders pressed Ukraine on Friday to speed up reforms that Europe and the United States hope will bring the country closer to the West but Kiev responded that it needed a promise it could join the bloc, reported Reuters. 

Romania has made progress in defending rule of law and in fighting corruption, and any sudden step back would raise questions in Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday in a joint press conference in Berlin with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.

Today has proven a historic day for Ireland as the country’s parliament elected its 14th head of government.

ASTANA - Along with world and regional leaders including Russian and Chinese Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic late Friday attended the ceremonial opening of Astana Expo 2017, which has brought together over 110 countries and 20 organisations.

Luxembourg's PM Xavier Bettel has called on all member-states of the EU to close their borders for 24 hours. This will give skeptical Europeans a shocking lesson on how valuable free movement of people in the EU is.

NEW YORK - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday met with the heads of government of Romania, Austria, Moldova and Luxembourg on the fringes of a UNGA session in New York.

Vucic and his Romanian counterpart Dacian Ciolos agreed to hold their next meeting in Belgrade or Bucharest soon.

The informal meeting of the European Council has begun in Bratislava.

"I talked to German Chancellor and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel," wrote Bulgarian PM Borissov on Facebook.

LSBC brought Comtrade, Analitica, Skylabs, Cosylab and ProNew Tech, LSBC's partner from Luxembourg, to the eye of the ICT Spring event attendees. The stand was also visited by Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and H.E. Matjaz Sinkovec, Embasy of Slovenia in Brussels.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz has said the EU would reach an agreement with Turkey, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu is in Brussels to attend a EU-Turkey summit to find a solution to the migrant crisis that has hit the bloc. 

The heads of state or government of the member states of the EU agreed on a joint position which will be presented to Turkey in attempt to reach a deal on stemming the migrant influx into Europe.

The EU leaders agreed the common position at the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, which began on Thursday and is continuing on Friday.