Wednesday
23rd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Alain Juppe has confirmed "once and for all" that he will not run for president even if his party colleague, Francois Fillon, retires from the race due to the embezzlement case pending against him. Juppe, a former prime minister who lost to Fillon in a party primary election, said that he could represent the "deep renewal of the political leaders" wanted by the French people.
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.
