Wednesday
23rd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy has been called to testify in a trial of members of his ruling Popular Party (PP), following an investigation into companies bribing PP lawmakers for contracts. The leader of the minority government is not accused of any wrongdoing, but the court appearance, whose date is yet to be decided, will be an embarrassment for Rajoy as he tries to distance himself from his party's scandals.
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.
