Monday
21st Aug 2017
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 next few months will be decisive in selecting who stays in the core of the EU and who stays behind, writes Tomas Prouza, a former state secretary for European Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Arrest of Turkish dissident has again highlighted the way rogue regimes use Interpol to hunt their enemies inside the EU.
Just over a year after a small majority voted for Britain to leave the EU, new realities are dawning on both the in and the out camps.
One in three children aged between six and nine in Europe is either overweight or obese and the epidemic is threatening to bankrupt health services.
Twenty-four different nationalities among dead and injured in "jihadist" van attack on model of previous ones in France, Germany, and UK.
Austria is sending soldiers to stop migrants coming from Italy, while Bulgaria has said the EU should “defend” its borders by “force of arms”.
