The European Union is similar to the Weimar Republic in the 1930s, as Brussels' financial policy is leading to "the European political agenda turning toward fascism," Yanis Varoufakis, a founder of pan-European Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) and a former Greek minister of finance, told Sputnik.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday she was planning to resume debate on Brexit deal in the parliament in the week starting January 7 and to hold the vote in the third week of the month.

UK Labour's leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to say in the House of Commons later on Monday that Labour will bring forward a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May unless she can immediately announce the date for the parliament vote on the Brexit deal, UK media reported.

The UK government has stepped up preparations for leaving the European Union without a deal, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday.

Just as media reports about Russia's alleged meddling in the US election started to die down, in 2018 Moscow faced another series of evidence-free accusations, provoked by the attempted poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK city of Salisbury in March.

The UK parliament should vote on whatever additional Brexit guarantees UK Prime Minister Theresa May can secure from her European colleagues, and if that fails, the parliament should be given a chance to say what it could agree to, Greg Clark, the UK Secretary of State for Business, said Monday

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will warn the members of the UK parliament on Monday that holding a second Brexit referendum could "break faith" with UK citizens and entail serious damage to the nation's political situation