Thursday
24th Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi told Rai television on Thursday that his cabinet will, on 26 September, set the date for a referendum on his government's constitutional reform, limiting the powers of the Senate and making it easier to pass legislation. Renzi has earlier threatened that he would resign as prime minister if he loses the referendum, prompting elections that could see the anti-euro Five Star party take power.
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.
