1 – Hungarian prime minister says migrants are ‘poison’ and ‘not needed’. (theguardian.com)
“Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees trekked through Hungary and Austria in 2015 as they sought to reach wealthy European nations. But the flow slowed to a trickle after Orban’s government erected razor wire and fences along the southern borders last autumn and brought in tough anti-migrant laws.
Orban said the migration and foreign policy plans of the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were “vital” for Hungary, whereas those of his rival, the Democrat Hillary Clinton, were “deadly”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/…/hungarian-prime-minister-vikt…
2 – Juncker tells UK: No single market without freedom of movement (EurActiv.com)
““There will be no access to the internal market for those who do not accept the rules – without exception or nuance – that make up the very nature of the internal market system,” Juncker said. However, diplomats told the Guardian that plans to allow the United Kingdom an exemption from EU rules on freedom of movement for up to seven years while retaining access to the single market were being considered in European capitals as part of a potential deal on Brexit.”
http://www.euractiv.com/…/juncker-tells-uk-no-single-mark…/…
3 – Europe risks repeating past mistakes on Islam (Jonathan Laurence)
“This has recently come to a head. In 2014, the Austrian parliament voted to end Turkish funding for religious activities and evict Turkish religious personnel. The move echoed the Austro-Hungarian empire’s decision one hundred years earlier to replace the caliphate in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Vienna-approved religious leader. Belgium recently passed a similar decree regarding the nomination of imams, and German politicians have for months called for an end to Turkey’s influence in European Islam. The EU recently funded a journalism project dedicated to exposing “Turkish puppets” who promote the religious ideology of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and AKP within Europe.”
http://www.brookings.edu/…/21-europe-islam-salafism-laurenc…
4 – Juncker puts veteran French politician in charge of Brexit talks (the guardian.com)
“I am very glad that my friend Michel Barnier accepted this important and challenging task. I wanted an experienced politician for this difficult job,” Juncker said in a statement. “I am sure that he will live up to this new challenge and help us to develop a new partnership with the United Kingdom.”
http://www.theguardian.com/…/jean-claude-juncker-puts-miche…
5 – EU to appoint new ambassador to Turkey (Florian Eder)
“Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, will inform the College of Commissioners today that she will appoint Christian Berger as the new head of the EU’s delegation in Turkey, according to a briefing for the meeting that POLITICO has seen.”
http://www.politico.eu/…/eu-to-appoint-new-ambassador-to-…/…
