Tuesday
22nd Aug 2017
By EUOBSERVER
The number of unaccompanied migrant minors in Greek prisons, instead of protective shelters, has jumped from two last November to 117 today, the US-based NGO Human Rights Watch has warned. "Dozens of vulnerable children are locked in dirty, crowded police cells ... in some cases with unrelated adults," the NGO said, calling on Athens to "end this abusive practice" in a letter to migration policy minister Yiannis Mouzalas.
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.
