Wednesday
23rd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Eurosceptic Croatian nationalist MEP Ruza Tomasic, whose presence on the European People's Party HDZ list drew the ire of EPP president, Joseph Daul, has been re-elected to the European Parliament. Since joining the EP in July 2013 after Croatia's accession, she sat with the European Conservative and Reformists group.
Britain is preparing to say that a new set of tribunals should enforce EU law after Brexit instead of the EU’s Court of Justice.
"The EU now needs to bring its weight to bear, to ensure non-EU countries cooperate on taking back their nationals arriving as economic migrants", writes migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos.
The leading EU member state must sooner or later face its responsibility for Europe's problems, said German political thinker Ulrike Guerot.
The UK is prepared to recognise some court rulings by judges in EU states after Brexit, but its trade ideas continue to attract ridicule.
"Shrugging your shoulders is not a political strategy in the long run," Johannes Hahn has said, calling for a change of course towards Turkey.
A European signatory of an open letter about autonomous weapons says the imagery of fictional killer robots is distracting from a seriously dangerous issue.
