Wednesday
18th Oct 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Jean-Claude Juncker has written to former competition commissioner Neelie Kroes seeking “clarifications”, the EU Commission said, following leaks that showed she had interests in an offshore firm called Mint that she failed to declare. The commission said it was also “looking into” whether Mint was linked to any firms on which Kroes adjudicated while she was in office. The inquiry could see her stripped of her EU pension.
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.
