The EU we don’t want
“Coronabonds” apparently would make investment bankers of Rothschild Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, UBS and Lazard Freres rich again, but not help Italy and Spain….
Civil Liberties
too big to jail?!
Judges imposing their countries’ maximum penalties for serious offences such as manipulating the LIBOR benchmark interest rate would have to stipulate at least four…
More Funds for Surveillance, Border & Asylum
Civil liberties MEPs back funds for asylum, migration and internal security by Linda Sommerschütt Border crossing Poland-Ukraine EU countries will have to allocate…
non-EU public procurement markets to EU firms
A draft law that could bar non-EU firms from bidding for public procurement contracts in the EU unless their home countries allow EU…
EP/Council deal on better social rights and conditions
Non-EU seasonal workers will get better working and living conditions, including a minimum wage and proper accommodation, under a draft law agreed by Parliament…
Women on company boards: go for 40% of non-executive posts by 2020, urge MEPs
By Martha Devon EU-listed companies should aim to ensure, by 2020, that at least 40% of their non-executive board members are women, so…
NSA-snooping: Media freedom at stake
The impact of US National Security Agency and other surveillance programmes on EU citizens’ privacy and media freedom and the lack of democratic oversight…
MEPs call on Hungarian authorities to abide by EU values
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Civil Liberties Committee recommendations to Hungary and the European Commission on how to remedy any breaches of key EU…