Tuesday
22nd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Poland sees "no point in continuing dialogue" with the Venice Commission, part of the human rights watchdog Council of Europe, foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski said on Saturday. In a report published on Friday, the commission said the Polish government continued to "delay and obstruct" the work of the Constitutional Tribunal and to "undermine its independence".
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.
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.
