Wednesday
23rd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Romania's president Klaus Iohannis told reporters in Malta that he supports the people protesting against a new government decree decriminalising low-level corruption. "We have hundreds of thousands of my Romanians out in the streets and I trust them, I trust my people, I believe in Romania," he said. Iohannis said the issue was a matter of principle and that the "rule of law has to prevail."
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.
