Hundreds of migrants trying to reach Europe are feared drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya.
Instead of practising the important art of masterly inactivity, Prime Minister David Cameron has been conducting a hyperactive and quite ineffective campaign to block the appointment of Luxembourg’s former prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission.
The EU Parliament elections are just a few days away, but the overwhelming focus of election coverage in UK newspapers has not been about European issues and policy debates, but on Nigel Farage’s UKIP and the question of a UK referendum on EU membership.
Today the European Parliament voted to end roaming charges by Christmas 2015, as part of a wider vote in support to the Commission’s proposed regulation for a “Connected Continent”
In contrast to the previous good natured debate on LBC, the rematch between UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the BBC became heated with personal insults hurled by both politicians.