EU redoubles attack on roaming charges
After an embarrassing U-turn last week, the EU commission has proposed to abolish roaming charges by June next year. Only "abusive" clients to pay.
After an embarrassing U-turn last week, the EU commission has proposed to abolish roaming charges by June next year. Only "abusive" clients to pay.
MEPs have urged Sweden to end border checks with Denmark and to take better care of unaccompanied refugee children.
The past year 1,400 lawsuits have been filed by investors against Volkswagen Group (VW) at the court of Braunschweig, it said in a press release Wednesday. The claims are worth a whopping €8.2 billion, and are based on the argument that VW should have informed investors quicker that it had cheated on emissions tests. Any damages it has to pay will come on top of a €13 billion US settlement.
The EU commission's ethical committee overseeing the appointment of former EU commission president Barroso's at Goldman Sachs should "move as fast as reasonably possible," EU ombudsman Emily O'Reilly told France 24 TV. She said it would be "unavoidable" for the commission to publish the report, even it is not required. "The public and moral pressure would be immense, I don't think the commission can duck from that."
Conservatives Brexiteers and Labour leadership are increasingly leaning away from the Norwegian-style deal with the EU, towards a UK-specific arrangement.
After seeing Lebanon's migration crisis up close, a group of MEPs warn that current EU proposals on resettlement are nowhere near enough.
The EU Commission on Wednesday agreed that there should be no limits on time or volume when consumers are roaming, with safeguards to fend off abuses. It had earlier scrapped a proposal that would have allowed roaming up to 90 days per year and for a maximum of 30 consecutive days. It will adopt a final proposal in December to end roaming charges in 2017.
Balkan leaders said in New York there would be no repetition of last year's mass influx of refugees, as the EU prepares to launch a new border force to keep people out.
Western powers have urged Bosnian Serbs to abandon a referendum that threatens to destabilise the country and to undo its EU application, filed Tuesday.
The bloc agreed to measures which make it possible to freeze assets and impose travel bans on people linked to the Islamic State and Al-Qaida.
EU sanctions on Russia over the war in eastern Ukraine "do not offer the chance for dialogue and problem resolution," Cyprus president Anastasiades said in New York while meeting Russian foreign minister Lavrov. "On the contrary, they keep the parties apart ... They automatically mean that a country on which sanctions are imposed also retaliates with sanctions," he said, adding the Minsk process was "the only way” for a solution.
The European Commission has given Google three more weeks to answer charges over market abuse. The US tech firm now has until 7 October to defend itself against accusations that its Android operating system excludes competitors. The commission opened the Android case in April. This is the third time Google has been awarded more time.
Five people will file a lawsuit Wednesday against Brussels regional authorities for failing to take against air pollution. The claimants, who are supported by ClientEarth, an organisation of lawyers specialised in environmental cases, want judges to force the authorities to present a plan to fight pollution, especially nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions from diesel vehicles.
The construction of a wall to deter migrants to try to cross the Channel to Britain started near Calais, in northern France, on Tuesday. The 1km long and 4m high wall will lengthen fences already in place along a road leading to the port. The works, financed by the British government, should be completed by the end of the year, local authorities said.