Brexit negotiations will not proceed to haggling over a future UK-EU trading relationship by October as previously planned, the Slovenian prime minister has warned.

The UK has urged Brussels to show "respect" to expats by addressing "significant gaps" in their offer on their citizenship rights as it emerged that Britons in the European Union could lose their automatic ability to move to another country in the bloc after Brexit.

The European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, said: "Yet another own goal, after Cameron now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated."

Belgian police have shot and injured a woman in Brussels after she attacked three people on a bus with a knife.

Pub company JD Wetherspoon has printed a new beer mat with strong messages in favour of leaving the EU.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been charged with attempted murder over a shootout with police that took place last month in Brussels.

Belgian prosecutors have charged four more suspects with "participating in terrorist acts" linked to the deadly suicide bombings in Brussels.

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny says he has raised the issue of Ireland's bank recapitalisation at an EU Heads of State meeting in Brussels.

Belgium was hit by nationwide strikes in protest at austerity measures today as leaders met for the European Union summit in Brussels.

FRANCE announced plans yesterday to impose curfews on rundown suburbs hit by violence to try to halt almost two weeks of unrest in which one man has been killed, police said yesterday.

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A general strike has been called by the three unions representing workers on Brussels' public transport network Friday, to coincide with the first day of the European summit in the city.

DONEGAL trawlermen are to get extra government funding to help them combat tough new EU fishing restrictions.

Sabena is scrapping two of its three daily Belfast-Brussels flights.