Tuesday
19th Sep 2017
By EUOBSERVER
"I’ll speak in French, because English is slowly losing importance in Europe," European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday, as he started a speech at the State of the Union conference in Florence, receiving big rounds of applause from the audience. "There is also a French election and I want to make sure they understand what I say," he added, calling the UK's decision to leave the EU a "tragedy".
EU governments should stop Ukraine from hampering the work of NGOs in revenge against their anti-corruption work.
An ongoing review of the the European Investment Bank's "complaints mechanism" could make the oversight branch less independent and less effective.
Journalists from Turkey's Zaman newspaper stand trial this week on fake charges that include "perception engineering" and "violating the rights of statesmen".
Mega-mergers in the food sector have become commonplace, but EU laws do little to help it keep check on the impact this could have on the environment, public health, and food security.
The UK aims to maintain and to "instensify" cooperation with the EU to fight crime and terrorism even after Brexit, according to London's new policy paper.
The European Commission has said it is in a "dialogue" with Cyprus amid concerns on loopholes in its passport sale scheme.
