The EU executive has asked Italy to resubmit its budget in an unprecedented rebuke, while warning Rome that public debt was the "enemy of the people".

Polish and other populists have a new adversary - Robert Biedron, the country's first openly gay MP, whose pro-EU party aims to "change the face of Poland".

Italy's 5 Star Movement is to launch a new pro-European, but anti-establishment political group in January.

It is in cities that new forms of poverty and new groups of people facing vulnerability, like the working poor, are first seen.

An estimated 80 percent of Syrian refugees in the EU are unemployed - despite this, the integration of asylum seekers and migration remains outside the European Commission's policy objectives in its latest budget proposals for regional development and cohesion policy.

European Parliament secretary general Klaus Welle refuses to publish papers discussing what has been done with MEPs' requests for measures to prevent sexual harassment.