politics europe, your regular guide to the top stories in brussels and strasbourg. on today s programme, the bill allowing theresa may to trigger article 50 is now law. what will be the british government s next move? how will the eu respond? the head of the eu commission unveils his blueprint for the eu without britain. the european court ofjustice rules companies can ban workers from wearing the headscarf. and breaking up is not always easy to do. what can czechoslovakia s velvet divorce tell us about brexit? first, our guide to the latest from europe in just 60 seconds. the dutch prime minister, mark rutte, celebrated victory in his country s election, easily defeating geert wilders. eu leaders staunchly backed the dutch in a diplomatic row a diplomatic row with turkey. commissionerjean claude juncker said he was scandalised. we will never accept this comparison between the nazis and the current government. the european court of human rights ruled that hungary unlawfully k
republic headlined, a world war: we re under attack by climate c change and our only he is to mobilize like we did in world war ii. then in the first ever override of an obama veto, congress votes to allow americans to sue saudui arabia over the 9/11 attacks. there is mounting evidence that the saudi government, at least organizations and operatives within the saudi government, aided and abetted one of the most massive crimes in the united states. in our system, the truth behind those facts deseserves to be presented in court. comes as the obama administration declassified 28 pages from the september 11 report detailing possible ties between the saudi government and the 9/11 attacks. we will speakith medeaa benjamin, cofounder of cododepi. author of kingdom of the , unjust: behind the u.s.-saudi connection. and inin news from the campaigin trail, a new investigation by newsweek reveals one of donald trump s businesses violated the u.s. embargo on cuba, s secretly doing
r of the late 20th century seems far removed, today 21st-century europe strains to accommodate the outcome. the fall of the berlin wall marked the end of the soviet empire s iron curtain and reshaped germany s borders. a new unified berlin is emerging: the capital of a reunited germany near the center of a european region whose borders expanded with the demise of the iron curtain. narrator: during the cold war that followed world war ii germany existed as two antagonistic countries, east germany and west germany. berlin, the historic capital of the nation, located deep inside communist east germany was also divided into east and west sectors. for nearly 30 years, this division was marked by a wall built right through the city. the wall went up in 1961. then in 1989 germany was reunified and the wall was torn down. man: the wall comes down, there is great euphoria. finally the two cities can be connected again and made one. it is a new symbol of the unification of germany, the
the voluntary association of three or more countries. one example of supranationalism is the european union an economic alliance designed to improve european competitiveness in the world economy. but this alliance is more than just economic. it is also europe s attempt to forge a community with common values, even as individual state identity is maintained. strasbourg is located on the border of france and germany and has endured centuries of conflict between those two nations. today, it is one seat of the european union a symbol of modern unity. as political boundaries become more permeable, perceptions of place change as well as deeper, more personal meanings of national identity. when state boundaries become porous, what does it mean to be french or german or european? strasbourg serves as one of three centers for the european union. this medium-sized city of 250,000 is not a major player in europe s financial or industrial arenas. so why is it playing such an important
Slovak PM Robert Fico's independent stance earned him the wrath of NATO and the EU. Did a Western-directed plot to remove his troublesome government from office trigger his assassination attempt? On May 15, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was.