Tuesday
25th Jul 2017
By EUOBSERVER
The European Central Bank is expected to cut its headline interest rate from its current 0.25 percent, itself a record low, to 0.1 percent at its meeting on Thursday. Analysts also expect that the ECB could introduce negative rates on deposits, in an effort to stimulate bank lending.
"It's hard to imagine that, overnight, UK law would suddenly forget European law," said Ian S. Forrester, a British judge at the Court of Justice of the EU.
Threat of US fines against German and other EU firms involved in Russia's Nord Stream II gas pipeline could prompt angry European response.
The trial, which opened Monday, of 17 journalists and administrative employees of the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet is considered one of the most important episodes in a systematic campaign to silence dissent.
Some eastern EU member states worry they are being sold inferior food. The Slovak prime minister will speak to commission chief Juncker about it.
Andrzej Duda's veto on two controversial justice reforms reveals cracks in the ruling PiS party, but it could still be bypassed.
Andrzej Duda decided to veto two of the controversial draft laws, which would put the judiciary under political control, but the EU executive is awaiting details before deciding on whether to launch legal probes on Wednesday.
