Tuesday
24th Apr 2018
By EUOBSERVER
Alexis Tsipras' Greek government plans to hire 20,000 civil servants over the next year to help Greece's austerity hit education and health services. Government officials believe that the hiring will not run into objections from representatives of Greece’s international creditors, Kathimerini newspaper reports. The same sources denied that such a move could render the civil service beholden to leftist SYRIZA.
The president of the European Commission has decided that nine member states who are failing to fight air pollution will receive another month's respite.
Spanish special forces seized a boat from 'African pirates' as diplomats watched on Monday, in a drill marking Spain's bid to grab the EU's top military mission from the UK.
Russian domestic television - the only source of foreign news for most Russians - consistently shows Europe over-run by immigrants, beset by terrorist atrocities, and on strike. This has serious consequences.
In an exchange with the new Chinese ambassador to the EU - his first appearance at an EU institution - the EU Parliament international trade committee called for action to meet commitments to open up China's market and reduce overcapacity.
Six out of seven political parties running in Greenland's parliamentary elections on Tuesday are pro-independence, but they disagree on how fast the last ties to Copenhagen should be cut. Increasing dependence on China could be the consequence.
The anti-abortion campaign known as "One of US" lost its bid to force the European Commission to propose legislation that would cut funding to embryonic stem cells.
