Wednesday
18th Oct 2017
By EUOBSERVER
The German parliament will vote on Thursday whether to approve the next Greek tranche and the debt-reducing tools agreed Monday night by eurozone finance ministers. The opposition has signalled it will vote in favour, but is sceptical that these measures will work without governments taking losses.
Negotiations were stalled for weeks, as Warsaw tried to capture funds earmarked for the civil sector.
EU countries are trying to break a deadlock in discussions over the revision of a directive on posted workers before a crucial meeting next Monday.
The EU is "not confident, but hopeful" that the UK will achieve sufficient progress for 'stage 2' by December, as Britain's Brexit negotiator blames the slow pace of negotiations on the EU ahead of a crucial summit meeting.
The UN is sending troops to Libya to provide security for staff working with the UN refugee agency. The agency's work in Libya is broadly funded by the EU.
Two EU agencies need a new home after Brexit - but member states have spent demonstrably less effort on their public bids to host the EBA.
New figures for 2017 so far show a surprising uptick in EU-Russia trade relations, notwithstanding sanctions over Ukraine and Crimea.
