Wednesday
18th Oct 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday invited leaders of six southern EU states to meet in Athens on 9 September in a bid to form a strong southern alliance and counter the stance of countries in Northern Europe. Athens News Agency reports the states invited will include France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta.
Spanish political leaders called on Catalan separatists to organise regional elections as a way to avoid emergency measures due to be taken on Thursday. That's "not on the table", a Catalan official replied.
The EU is not the right body to investigate Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder - but it can take steps stamp out the corruption that was her life's work.
For the first time since a series of clashes the 'Visegrad' premiers and the EU Commission president will sit down for dinner together on Wednesday. Their aim: to set a new tone.
The European parliament claims the media and public do not have a right to supervise or monitor the public role of MEPs, says Natasa Pirc Musar, a lawyer representing journalists, in a transparency battle against the assembly.
Politicians and civic leaders need a new sense of optimism if they are to avoid mere 'sticking plaster' solutions to migration.
On balance, 55 percent of British respondents said the UK had benefited from EU membership. Among all European respondents, 47 percent said their voice counted in the EU.
