Wednesday
23rd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Berlin is prepared to accept France's Pierre Moscovici becoming EU economics commissioner so long as a budget hardliner, such as Finland's Jyrki Katainen, is appointed vice-president of the commission, reports Der Spiegel. Berlin had previously voiced opposition to Moscovici getting the post on grounds that France is breaching euro rules.
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.
