UK prime minister writes an open letter to EU council president Donald Tusk to ask for a renegotiation of the Irish border backstop. The EU remains unconvinced.

Poland's deputy minister of justice personally organised a hate campaign against selected judges,Polish media have revealed, amid long-standing EU concern on Polish rule of law.

The EU, in league with Canada, has spoken out on the Hong Kong protests after months of silence in what one expert called "a clear expression of support for the protesters".

Salvini's attacks on Italian judges who questioned his migrant push-backs have put rule of law in Italy at risk for everybody, not just refugees.

The British government has tried to play down leaked warnings on the dangers to British people of a no-deal Brexit.

The German former secretary-general of the European Commission held some 21 meetings which were registered in the lobby register. But no documents appeared to exist summarising what was said.