Новости за 10.08.2016

Finance ministers accepted EU recommendations to get Madrid and Lisbon off the hook.

A total of 77% of Romanians would vote ‘remain’ if an EU membership referendum were organised in Romania, according to an IRES study. Only 14% want Romania to leave the EU. Seven out of ten respondents who heard of Brexit believe Romania should speed up integration into the European Union.

Norway has warned it may not support a UK bid to rejoin the European Free Trade Association in a possible effort to gain access to the bloc's single market once it leaves the EU.

Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi back-peddled on Tuesday on a promise to leave office if an upcoming referendum on a constitutional reform, due in the autumn failed. "This referendum is not my referendum, because this reform has a father whose name is (former president of Italy) Giorgio Napolitano," Renzi told party supporters at an event in Modena, northern Italy. “I made a mistake personalising it too much.”

Israel razed on Tuesday five buildings in the West Bank constructed without permits, including three paid for by the European Union. The US State Department said it “raises serious questions” about the Jewish state’s commitment to peace. “We believe that this is part of an ongoing process of land seizures, settlement expansions, legalisation of outpost, denial of Palestinian development,” said spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau during a press briefing.

Germany has turned back more undocumented migrants, at it's borders, during the first half of 2016 and deported more foreigners without residency permits than during all of 2015, according to interior ministry figures released in response to an inquiry from the opposition Left party. In total 13,324 migrants were denied entry from January to June - nearly 50% more than the 8,913 people rejected in 2015.

The answer to "who can trigger Article 50 and how" depends on which lawyer you ask.