Новости за 27.04.2018

The European Commission will next week unveil its ambitious proposal for the first EU budget without the UK. In the European Parliament, its the Belgian PM's turn to talk about the future of Europe.

Superbugs already kill 25,000 Europeans each year, despite hospitals fighting to stop the antibiotic resistant bacteria from spreading. This week the Nordic Council lobbied Brussels to wake up.

The showdown over independence, and then the suspension of the region's autonomy, have had "a lot of impact on everyday life", said Laia Ortiz, while promoting the city's social experiment.

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will give a speech on 4 May in Trier to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Kark Marx's birth in the German city. He was invited as a Trier honorary citizen. "Nobody can deny that Karl Marx is a figure who shaped history in one way or the other, and not speaking of him would come close to denying history," a commission spokeswoman said Friday.

The EU, the US and Canada launched an operation this week to take down websites carrying propaganda for the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Europol announced on Friday. Digital evidence and servers were seized during the operation, which was coordinated by the European Union Internet Referral Unit, a part of Europol's Counter Terrorism Centre and involved seven EU countries.

EU states, in a vote at an expert body meeting, decided on Friday to ban three neonicotinoid pesticides on outdoor crops. The decision, which was proposed by the European Commission, follows two assessments by the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa), in 2013 and again in February, that the products present a risk to wild bees and honeybees.

No amount of fine talk will undo the harm to EU free press and rule of law if Daphne Caruana Galizia's real killer is not caught.

The EU Blue Card scheme aims to attract highly-skilled workers from abroad and address labour shortages. In 2016, the EU Commission proposed a reform. Today, it is being "blocked and outright rejected" by Germany.