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EU Agency Seeks Unified Climate Adaptation Policies
November 29, 2017
A report from the European Environment Agency calls for "closer policy alignment" and more access to EU funding among the bloc's member states to permit adaptation to the ongoing impacts of global warming.
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CoE Body: Irish Housing Breaches Social Charter
November 28, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Social Rights has found that Ireland has breached the legally binding European Social Charter by providing "substandard" social housing to indigent people in the country.
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British MP: EU Must Offer Trade Deal for Exit Fee
November 28, 2017
Bernard Jenkin MP writes that the only scenario in which the UK should offer money to the EU in Brexit negotiations is in return for a free trade deal with the bloc.
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UK Official Bolsters Brexit "No Deal" Threat
November 28, 2017
UK International Trade Secretary Liam Fox recently warned EU leaders in an interview that the British government is not "bluffing" on its willingness to leave the bloc without a trade or other deal if Brexit negotiations fail, asserting that trading with the EU and the rest of the world under World Trade Organization rules is not a "nightmare scenario."
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Polish PM Criticizes Multi-Speed EU Proposals
November 27, 2017
An article in The Daily Express reports on the public opposition by Central and Eastern European leaders, including Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydio, to the idea of a "multi-speed EU," permitting some members to transfer their sovereignty to the supranational organization quicker than others, currently under consideration by EU and Western European officials.
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