Thursday
29th Jun 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Polish PM Tusk pledged to protect his cabinet while visiting Madrid, saying recent media leaks are designed to "paralyse the government at a key moment – a breakthrough in Europe [on EU top jobs talks] and in the Ukraine situation". Investigators say waiters made and sold the recordings to businessmen.
EU states in Nato and Canada spent $46 billion more on defence in the past three years in money that is partly being used to buy more “armour”.
EU seeks novel ways to plug a Brexit-based budget hole of up to €11 billion, but income from fines, such as the one on Google, cannot be relied on.
Croatia said it would not apply a ruling to be delivered by the international arbitration court on Thursday. Slovenia appeals to the EU to pressure its neighbour.
The EU is encircled by a ring of the world’s worst offenders on human trafficking, a US state department report has said.
A year after British voters chose to leave the EU, "taking back control" from the bloc is firmly on the back-burner, as May government’s main ambition is its immediate survival.
The prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, maintains that his country had broken no rules and committed no crime when issuing rulings that slashed global tax bills for the big firms.
