ESO in … August 2016
5 September 2016
The following events, initiatives and issues were in the news in August. Click on the links to find information sources indexed in European Sources Online.
- EU Referendum in the UK, 23 June 2016 BREXIT / BREMAIN – further reactions in August 2016
- Information Guide to the EU Referendum [includes links to sources on the results and subsequent analysis]
- Reaction in the EU Reinventing the EU after Brexit
- Reaction in the UK / Northern Ireland / Scotland / Wales
- Reaction in France / Germany / Italy / Netherlands / Poland / Spain / Ireland
- UK Chancellor Philip Hammond guarantees EU funding beyond date UK leaves the EU, 13 August 2016
- Attempted coup, Turkey, 15 July 2016 and subsequent developments
- Spain: Continued efforts to create a government following General Election, 26 June 2016
- European Migration Challenges
- Austria, Denmark and Sweden move towards tougher asylum rules / One year on – Germany / Austria / Italy
- European Commission conclude that tax benefits offered by Ireland to Apple constitute illegal state aid, 30 August 2016
- TTIP – what are the prospects for the proposed agreement between the European Union and United States
- Rapprochement meeting between Turkey’s President Erdogan and Russia’s President Putin, St Petersburg, 9 August 2016
- Earthquake in central Italy, 24 August 2016
- France
- Ukraine
- Rise in tension with Russia over Crimea, August 2016
- 25th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine, 24 August 2016