Monday
21st Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Dutch security and justice minister Ard van der Steur said in a parliamentary debate on Tuesday that “underestimating” the risk of foreign hacking to influence elections was “dangerous”. He said the government was “very alert” of that risk ahead of Lower House elections on 15 March. Liberal MP Kees Verhoeven had raised the issue because to him it was “obvious” that Russia would try to influence the Dutch elections.
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.
Just over a year after a small majority voted for Britain to leave the EU, new realities are dawning on both the in and the out camps.
One in three children aged between six and nine in Europe is either overweight or obese and the epidemic is threatening to bankrupt health services.
Twenty-four different nationalities among dead and injured in "jihadist" van attack on model of previous ones in France, Germany, and UK.
