Новости за 04.01.2016

Denmark's PM Lars Loekke Rasmussen on Monday announced temporary border-controls at the Danish border with Germany. Rasmussen said the controls are being stepped up in response to Sweden's new ID-controls, which could lead to more traffic and more refugees being stranded in Denmark.

EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini has urged Saudi Arabia and Iran to avoid escalation over the Saudi execution of a Shia Muslim cleric.

People going to Sweden from Denmark will have to carry valid IDs or be turned back, ending over 60 years of free travel in effort to stem refugee flows.

Poland says willing to trade British welfare rights for UK support for Nato bases, as country edges closer to EU pariah status over domestic reforms.

Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is set to launch on 9 February in Berlin a new pro-European group, The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) with a view to reforming EU institutions. "2016 will be the year for laying down roots," he told El Diario in an interview.

The leftist Catalan party CUP, which opposes Nato and EU membership, decided Sunday against backing a new regional government led by outgoing president Artur Mas. Two of CUPs 10 MPs are needed for Mas to form a new government before a 9 January deadline, or they face new elections.

Support among British business leaders for the UK's EU membership has narrowed, but a majority, 62%, still favour staying In, the quarterly CFO survey by consultancy Deloitte has found. One third of the 137 CFOs surveyed expressed less optimism about EU prospects for their companies than three months ago.

The European Court of Justice delivered stunning verdicts in 2015 to protect citizens' fundamental privacy rights over mass-surveillance.