Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to tighten the eligibility rules for benefits for immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania are an overreaction said EU commissioners Lazlo Andor.
One of the most important pieces of legislation wending its way through the European Parliament concerns data protection. Because of its potential impact on major US companies like Google and Facebook, this has become one of the most fought-over proposals in the history of the EU, with lobbyists apparently writing large chunks of suggested amendments more favorable to online services.
Mind the gap between university and your first job. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Is the EU labour market for young graduates really turning into a gridlock?
The government frame the EU migration debate in terms of fear, with Romanians and other Europeans coming to the UK to make use of the NHS and to live off benefit payments – but evidence for these claims is notoriously light.
Years of careful preparation, months of intense lobbying and days of political drama are culminating in a crucial vote on tobacco products in the European Parliament in a couple of weeks.