The EU and the UK might be edging towards a deal on the UK’s membership of the EU as David Cameron is meeting Juncker on 29 January for a final push on the UK’s membership negotiations to keep the country in the EU.

Swedish authorities plan to expel as many as 80,000 migrants whose asylum requests have been rejected.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is facing increasing pressure from coalition allies to cap the number of migrants entering the EU's largest country, and to help lower levels of government with the care of refugees.

Cameron will hold talks with EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Friday on the renegotiation of Britain's EU membership.

France's justice minister Christiane Taubira resigned on Tuesday, as a bill to revise the constitution is reaching parliament.

Forty-four of the 310 members of Angela Merkel's Bundestag parliamentary group signed a protest letter on 19 January asking the chancellor to change course on her refugee policy.

"If it takes until late 2016 or 2017 for Europe to set up its planned border and coastguard force, the EU will have killed itself," Fico said.

EU member states Monday (25 January) asked the EU Commission to prepare for measures that allow member states to prolong temporary border controls to up to two years.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed global security challenges at the World Economic Forum in Davos (21-23 January 2016). Mr Stoltenberg took part in a plenary session on the global security outlook.

The EU's planned border patrol will be too small, Czech president Milos Zeman said on Prime TV Sunday.

Threats are mounting to expel Greece from the EU's border-free Schengen zone as interior ministers meet on Monday (25 January) in Amsterdam to discuss extending border controls to two years.

Centre-right candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa won Portugal's presidential election yesterday (24 January), an outcome that should help maintain political balance after a dramatic swing to the left in October's parliamentary ballot.

EU ministers open talks Monday (25 January) in Amsterdam on ways to save the Schengen passport-free zone from collapse, and tackle the jihadist scourge, as a new counter-terrorism centre in The Hague is launched.

Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz said, “One of the decisions, which resulted from yesterday’s talks ss a permanent presence of the British forces on Polish territory of 1,000 soldiers.”

The Turkish prime minister warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday that an EU pledge of ?3 billion isn’t enough to deal with the refugee crisis.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, from the center-right PSD party, is favourite for Portugal's presidential election and could be elected in the first round on Sunday.

Macedonia closed its border with Greece, saying closures in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia were preventing migrants from exiting the country and continuing their journey through the Balkans.

Domestic pressure is mounting for Germany to extend border control checks amid further rifts within Chancellor Angela Merkel's grand coalition.

Austria has said it will place a cap on the number of asylum claims it will process.

In a landmark ruling that could lead to chaos in Britain's asylum system, a court decided that four Syrian migrants should immediately be brought to the UK from “The Jungle” camp in Calais because of their right to a family life.

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon argues, “We want regular, larger troops exercises composed of forces from many NATO member states not only in Poland but also in the region – on the whole Eastern flank of NATO.

The Azov Regiment has debunked a YouTube clip threatening terrorist attacks if Dutch people vote No in a referendum on the EU-Ukraine trade treaty.

Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo rejected allegations that her government’s policies are eroding the rule of law during a European Parliament debate on 19 January.

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Brussels prepares to tear up asylum deal that allows Britain to remove 1,000 people a year, as Prime Minister launches final round of diplomacy in Davos.

At a time when the 28-member alliance is in bid to counter unprecedented security challenges both at home and abroad, two senior Turkish diplomats are being appointed to key posts at NATO.

In a direct challenge to Merkel’s refugee policies, the Cabinet Minister said, “It is not enough to show the world a friendly face… The opposite is true: failing to close borders, that will bring Europe to its knees.”

Stoltenberg and Polish President Andrzej Duda met on Monday, 18 January 2016, to discuss preparations for the Warsaw Summit. Mr. Stoltenberg thanked Poland for its continued commitment to Euro-Atlantic security.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has said he won’t bow to EU “pressure” on judicial reform, ahead of a European Parliament debate.

A new Survation opinion poll published by the Mail shows support among British voters for leaving the EU rising to 53%, while 47% want to stay.

Over the weekend, Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer again threatened to take Merkel's government to court over her welcoming policy towards refugees.

The presidents of both the US and Iran say the implementation of the nuclear deal vindicates their policies.

Prospect of the Islamic Republic pumping an additional 500,000 barrels a day sends stock markets in Dubai and Saudi Arabia into tailspin.

RBC Capital Markets said the changes in Russia could pave the way for an implicit accord with Opec but huge hurdles remain.

The European Commission has triggered rule-of-law monitoring of Poland, in an unprecedented step, prompted by constitutional and media reforms.

Member states and EU institutions lag far behind on promises to better manage refugee flows, amid a growing public backlash.

Authorities say the migrants being sent back are those wishing to travel to Denmark and Sweden, where border controls have been tightened.

Explosion leaves ten dead and 15 injured at the major tourist attraction of Sultanahmet square.

Poland has accused the Dutch EU commissioner, Frans Timmermans, of "left-wing" bias and "astonishing" ignorance in trying to “exert pressure” on constitutional reform.

The agreement would deepen cooperation, information exchange, as well as the use of naval and air bases.

EU commission vice-president Frans Timmermans has urged Ankara to do more to stop migrants, as the Netherlands revives talk of mini-Schengen.

Merkel is under increased pressure for her open door policy towards migrants, prompting her to call off her regular trip to the Davos World Economic Forum, the gathering of global leaders, later this month.

The 40th rotation of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission took place 7 January 2016 in Lithuania and Estonia.

Juncker urged Dutch voters 9 January not to oppose the EU association agreement with Ukraine, saying such a move "could open the doors to a continental crisis".

The Polish justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro invoked Nazi-era crimes in his rebuke to Germany’s EU commissioner Oettinger as the rule-of-law dispute turns into mud-slinging between Warsaw and Berlin.

The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece, because an agreement with Turkey will not be enough, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbбn said on Friday (8 January).

That would require full unanimity and Hungary will never support any sort of sanctions against Poland," he was quoted,

The Dutch EU presidency and the European Commission have said their top priority in the next six months is to reduce the number of asylum seekers.

Hungary could accept the UK’s proposed changes to the EU, if the curbing of in-work welfare benefits does not discriminate against Hungarians working and paying taxes in the UK, prime minister Viktor Orban said on 7 January.

The 40th rotation of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission will take place this week (7 January 2016) in Lithuania and Estonia.

Around 400 people demostrate at Cologne's main train station, where dozens of women were sexually assaulted on New Year's Eve.

Clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in eastern Ukraine have dwindled, but villages in the buffer zone around the frontline have been changing hands, raising fears that the tenuous ceasefire has unraveled.

Denmark imposes temporary ID checks on its border with Germany following a similar move by Sweden, dealing a double blow to Europe's fraying passport-free Schengen area amid a record influx of migrants.

Travellers warned to expect long delays on the Oresund bridge-and-tunnel link, which had become a major entry point for refugees.

US urges calm as tensions escalate between rival Middle East powers, raising spectre of sectarian conflict.

lish Foreign Minister says opposition to British welfare plans could be softened with deal over NAYO bases.

Polish MPs have passed a law on reform of public media despite growing EU and wider international criticism on democratic standards.

Iran's supreme leader says Saudi Arabia will face "divine revenge" for executing a top Shia cleric, as 40 arrested for storming Saudi embassy in Tehran.

Saudi Arabia executes 47 people for terrorism, including a prominent Shia cleric, as executions reach highest level since 1995.

If the EU had been united in its intentions, it might not have turned an emergency into a tragedy.

If the United States begins to look like a less reliable defender of the present order, that order will begin to unravel.

Money cannot hold Russia together because it is disappearing. What can hold Russia together is a belief.

In the run-up to July’s Summit in Warsaw, Allies will continue to bolster our defense posture, adapting our Alliance to the realities we face today.

As long as each crisis is seen individually, and in the context of the current headlines, that one crisis seems to dominate events.

The answer is that the combination of Russia’s rapid deployability and its growing conventional capabilities weaken deterrence on NATO’s eastern flank, which has been the basis of Western strategy since the Cold War.

It was a great year for the Obama administration’s foreign policy .  .  . says the Obama administration.

The EU edged closer 25 January to accepting that its Schengen open-borders area may be suspended for up to two years if it fails in the next few weeks to curb the influx of migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

Leaders will consider emergency measures to reintroduce internal borders at meeting on Monday, as France warns the entire European project is in 'very grave danger".

Hundreds of protesters broke into Moldova’s parliament on Wednesday (20 January), shortly after MPs approved the nomination of a new, pro-EU prime minister.

Slovenia may impose more border controls after Austria issued over the weekend temporary measures to stem the flow of migrants.

RBC Capital Markets said the changes in Russia could pave the way for an implicit accord with Opec but huge hurdles remain,

Clients told to seek safety of Bunds and Treasuries. 'This is about return of capital, not return on capital. In a crowded hall, exit doors are small'.

Beijing cannot keep burning through reserves at a record pace to defend the yuan and at the same time loosen monetary policy. It has to choose.

Denmark will impose temporary border controls at the country's southern border with Germany, Prime Minister Lars Lшkke Rasmussen announced at a press conference 4 January.

Sweden on Monday (4 January) launched identify checks on its border with Denmark, in a move which unravels 50 years of free travel between the two EU states.