'Killer robots' are not about Terminator
A European signatory of an open letter about autonomous weapons says the imagery of fictional killer robots is distracting from a seriously dangerous issue.
A European signatory of an open letter about autonomous weapons says the imagery of fictional killer robots is distracting from a seriously dangerous issue.
The next few months will be decisive in selecting who stays in the core of the EU and who stays behind, writes Tomas Prouza, a former state secretary for European Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Arrest of Turkish dissident has again highlighted the way rogue regimes use Interpol to hunt their enemies inside the EU.
Austrian soldiers have carried out border checks at the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy over the weekend, Euronews reported. The decision to deploy 70 soldiers at the border between the two EU member states was announced last week, to prevent migrants crossing on freight trains. Meanwhile, in Rome, police evicted some 800 migrants that had been squatting in a building near a train station in the Italian capital.
Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar said in a Guardian interview, published Sunday, that the schedule for Brexit negotiations was "optimistic". “I think that the process will definitely take more time than we expected at the start of the negotiations," he said. "It was good we made a schedule but, of course, if you are realistic you cannot expect such fundamental issues to be solved in a few months."
Germany's finance ministry said Monday that the scandal involving emissions cheating with diesel cars "must be classified in the medium-term as a risk to overall economic development", even though "its effects are not possible to quantify". The report came out a day after chancellor Angela Merkel had voiced support for the fuel at a campaign rally: "We need diesel if we are to achieve our climate protection goals."
The United Kingdom will publish five new position papers this week, outlining its position in the Brexit negotiations. UK Brexit minister David Davis said Britain will propose "imaginative and creative solutions". According to the Financial Times, one of the papers will include a "new and unique" dispute resolution mechanism to replace the jurisdiction of the EU's Court of Justice. Next week will see the next round of formal talks.