Wednesday
18th Oct 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".
Commission gives 'thumbs-up' to controversial Privacy Shield deal with US on data sharing after a year's operation - but notes room for improvement.
EU commissioner for security, Julian King, has proposed a "set of techniques" to help EU states obtain encrypted data from a seized device.
As the renewal of the weedkiller glyphosate is a hot potato on the EU agenda, with a vote in the Parliament on Thursday, the role of two closely-involved EU agencies has come under scrutiny.
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 to stamp out the corruption that she died fighting.
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.
