Eurosphere agenda: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s membership application… “Fancy Bears hackers…

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EU accepts Bosnia and Herzegovina’s membership application

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

The European Union’s 28 member states yesterday (20 September) accepted Bosnia and Herzegovina’s membership application and ordered the Commission to prepare an assessment of the Balkan country’s readiness to join the bloc.

Fancy Bears hackers: What we have learnt from the leaks

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

BBC Sport looks at some of the key facts surrounding the Fancy Bears hack team’s latest release of medical files stolen from Wada’s database.

Berlin Pirate politician Claus-Brunner in ‘murder-suicide’

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

A politician in Germany’s Pirate party is found dead in a Berlin flat with the body of another man, in what police believe was a murder-suicide.

Netzpolitik publishes more damning, leaked German surveillance reports, despite previous treason prosecution

 Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Netzpolitik is an amazing German activist/journalist organization; in 2015, they braved a treason investigation by publishing Snowden docs that showed that the German intelligence services were conducting illegal surveillance and illegally collaborating with the NSA; now they’ve done it again, publishing a new leaked oversight report on spying at the Bad Aibling surveillance station.

Debate: Merkel admits mistakes in refugee policy

 euro|topics

After electoral defeats for her conservative CDU party in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, German Chancellor Merkel has admitted to making mistakes in her refugee policy in recent years. Merkel has not shown enough contrition, some commentators argue. Others see her as morally victorious – even if she fails politically.

Debate: How will the election change Berlin?

 euro|topics

The people of Berlin punished the Socialist-conservative coalition in state elections on Sunday. The SPD was the strongest party but suffered major losses and now needs two partners to continue governing. The national-conservative AfD entered the Berlin parliament with just over 14 percent of the vote. Journalists discuss what the election means for the party landscape – and German democracy.

France burkini ban: Australian woman forced off Riviera beach

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

An Australian Muslim who went to France to show solidarity with French Muslims is forced to leave a beach for wearing a burkini, despite the ban being overturned.

Jeremy Corbyn – a mainstream [Scandinavian] social democrat

open Democracy News Analysis – by Jonas Fossli Gjersø

If there is such a thing as a ‘best practice approach’ in public policy the Nordic model would probably be it and, at any measure, a useful benchmark for Britain to move towards.

Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn at the TUC Congress,September 2016.Gareth Fuller/Press Association. All rights reserved.As a Scandinavian who has spent more than a decade living in Britain, nothing has made me feel more foreign than observing the current Labour leadership election. From his style to his policies Mr Corbyn would, in Norway, be an unremarkably mainstream, run-of-the-mill social-democrat. His policy-platform places him squarely in the Norwegian Labour Party from which the last leader is such a widely respected establishment figure that upon resignation he became the current Secretary-General of NATO.

Berlin state poll: Losses for Merkel’s CDU, gains for AfD

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Germany’s Christian Democrats, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, suffer a historic defeat in state elections in Berlin.

Frustrated Renzi attacks EU and Merkel after ‘boat trip’ Bratislava summit

EurActiv.com by Georgi Gotev

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stepped up his attacks against other European Union leaders yesterday (18 September) after an EU summit in Bratislava which he said amounted to no more than “a nice cruise on the Danube.”

One year on, Dieselgate is a disturbing warning sign about the EU’s house bank

 EurActiv.com by Anna Roggenbuck

A year after Volkswagen admitted fiddling its diesel emissions, the European Investment Bank (EIB), whose loans backed the carmaker’s efforts to develop cleaner engines, is still unable to say whether or not public funds were used to rig emissions tests, writes Anna Roggenbuck.

Gerbrandy: Europe’s car industry risks being outfoxed like Nokia

EurActiv.com by Pavol Szalai

In a few years’ time, people won’t buy a car just to get from A to B. Cars are going to become more like computers. The whole concept of transport will change, predicts Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy.

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