Both councils say there is no appetite to merge, but the notion of a south east Wales city region, driven by Cardiff but including Newport, was recently proposed by an expert panelreporting to the assembly.
Both councils say there is no appetite for the cities to merge, but the notion of a south east Wales city region, driven by Cardiff but including Newport, was proposed by an expert panelreporting to the assembly last July.
The European panel is currently reporting on Irish abortion laws after a 2010 judgment by the European Court of Human Rights that said the rights of a woman with cancer had been violated because she had to travel outside Ireland for an abortion.