Saturday
22nd Jul 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Israel on Tuesday announced the creation of 2,500 new settler homes in Palestine, one day after a similar announcement of 600 new units. The settlement expansion comes after the election of pro-Israeli US president Donald Trump and flies in the face of EU policy, restated by foreign ministers last week, to solve the 70-year old conflict via the creation of a Palestinian state side by side with Israel.
Friday will mark 128 days since elections in the Netherlands. Four parties are negotiating to form a government coalition.
Lawmakers in Poland adopted a controversial reform of the Supreme Court, despite warnings from the EU that the move could trigger a sanction procedure over the rule of law.
EU and UK negotiators presented their Brexit positions to identify common grounds this week, but that was made difficult by the scarcity of UK position papers.
EU law professor Ellen Vos says the commission's proposed mini-reform on comitology, an obscure but often-used method of EU lawmaking, should go much further.
Candidates from all political families should be presenting their vision on where the Union should be headed. European socialists want to keep the Spitzenkandidat procedure for future elections.
Huge amounts of money from criminal activities are funnelled into the legitimate European economy. But little is being done about it at EU or national level.
