An independent Scotland would find it “extremely difficult, if not impossible” to join the EU according to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Voters in Switzerland have backed a proposal to introduce quotas for all types of immigration.
If Ukraine constantly seems torn between Western Europe and Russia, it is because Ukraine is itself a country divided between East and West. While more than half the Ukrainian population associates itself with the EU, a large ethnic Russian minority is also present, which is difficult to ignore.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has called on Western countries, including the UK, to be more accepting of refugees from Syria’s ongoing civil war.
EU ministers have agreed to create a €54 billion (£46bn) fund, financed by the banking industry, to respond to future crises of failing eurozone banks.