Negotiation

Over 40 years of U.N.-led federal partnership negotiations to resolve the Cyprus issue have failed to yield a result and there is no sign that this will change in the foreseeable future.

Germany welcomed a draft agreement between Brussels and London on Britain's exit from the European Union, reported Anadolu Agency.

"I am very pleased that the chief negotiators of the EU and Great Britain has reached a preliminary agreement in Brexit negotiations," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Twitter.

AFP - European leaders will gather Wednesday for a summit to put summer tensions over migration behind them and to set up the last stretch of talks for a Brexit deal.

The European Union's top officials face intense pressure in the coming weeks to seal a divorce deal and a plan for future ties with Britain to avert a chaotic exit in March.

U.S. officials holding a two-front battle in President Donald Trump's bid to revise major trade ties made progress with Mexican negotiators but found no breakthroughs with a Chinese delegation this week.

Today, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria Ekaterina Zaharieva chaired the General Affairs Council meeting in an EU-27 format (GAC Article 50). That was the last meeting of this Council formation under the Bulgarian Presidency.

The latest developments in the Macedonian issue would be positive - opening the way toward the end of a chronic and dangerous problem - if the country's political forces were not trapped in automatic modes of behavior and mutual distrust.

A 62-year-old man threatened to torch a notary's office in central Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Thursday and doused three people in petrol before police negotiators convinced him to give himself up.

The man's motives were not clear but he was involved in a similar incident in 2011 when he attempted, on live TV, to set himself alight outside a bank in the same city.

A "deep and comprehensive" trade deal of the kind the U.K. says it wants with the EU would require Britain to accept a "binding convergence mechanism" with EU laws, according to a draft resolution from the European Parliament obtained by POLITICO.

Jeremy Browne, Special Representative for the City of London to the European Union, in an interview for the magazine, highlights that regardless of Brexit, London will remain the indispensable global financial centre in the continent of Europe, and even outside the EU.

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that his government will rename the country's main airport and highway towards Greece, both currently called Alexander the Great, as part of concessions reached with his Greek counterpart at their first meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.