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23rd Aug 2017

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LuxLeaks whistleblowers to appeal against convictions

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Two former employees of accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers who were convicted for revealing sweetheart tax deals granted to multinationals in Luxembourg will appeal against their convictions in court on Monday. Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet were given suspended sentences and fines for theft and violating secrecy laws after passing the information to a journalist. More than 200,000 people have signed a petition in support of the whistleblowers.

'Killer robots' are not about Terminator

A European signatory of an open letter about autonomous weapons says the imagery of fictional killer robots is distracting from a seriously dangerous issue.

Opinion

Macron goes east to test appetite for EU integration

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.

'I thought I was safe in Europe'

Arrest of Turkish dissident has again highlighted the way rogue regimes use Interpol to hunt their enemies inside the EU.

News in Brief

  1. US will ask Nato allies to send more troops into Afghanistan
  2. Greece to be absent at event on Communism and Nazism
  3. Czechs want observer status in Eurogroup meetings
  4. Putin sends EU-blacklisted ambassador to US
  5. Austria has begun checks at Italian border
  6. Slovenian PM: Brexit talks will take longer than expected
  7. Merkel backs diesel while report warns of economic harm
  8. UK to publish new Brexit papers this week

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