Thursday
24th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka told a meeting of Czech diplomats in Prague Monday that the EU should develop its own military capability alongside Nato. “I’m convinced that we can’t do without a common European army in the long term ... I hope that the autumn European summit will bring concrete proposals and pledges", he said, the Bloomberg news agency reports.
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.
