Новости за 09.09.2016

The mayor of Molenbeek, the Brussels district made infamous for sheltering terrorists, is targeting delinquency and petty crime in her effort to stamp out extremism.

Anti-poverty groups and activists in Ireland say the government's decision to appeal an EU commission decision to order Apple to hand it €13 billion undermines its moral authority.

MEPs are worried about the human rights situation in Poland. But what do they hope to gain from next week's plenary debate?

The US company is accused of censorship after it deleted an iconic Vietnam War photo and removed criticism it received over the decision. Norway's prime minister was not spared.

EU countries were supposed to place dissuasive penalties on the use of cheating software, but the commission is not yet convinced all of them did.

Three women arrested near Paris on Thurday were "clearly" preparing a terror attack, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday. They had claimed allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group and left a testament. Molins pointed out that IS now "uses young women" to commit attacks. Last Sunday, police found in a car in the center of Paris five gas canisters, a blanket covered with petrol and a lighted cigarette.

EU agricultural policy should help steer consumers toward healthier and more environmentally-friendly eating habits.

International football authority Fifa should exclude Israeli teams that come from occupied Palestinian land, according to an MEPs’ petition.

Some minors fleeing violence are kept in "filthy" and prison-like conditions in Greece, with no access to help, according to Human Rights Watch.

EU Council president Donald Tusk will ask EU leaders next week in Bratislava to send guards and equipment to Bulgaria to help protect its border with Turkey against migrants. "In Bratislava I would like to see a critical number of member states sending border guards and equipment to help Bulgaria," Tusk said Friday in Stockholm. Bulgaria said it feared a new influx if the migration deal with Turkey collapses.

A referendum in the country's Serb entity has revived ethnic divisions and taken over a local election campaign that fails to address people's real concerns.

Eurozone finance ministers on Friday " strongly encouraged" the Greek government to speed up privatisation, energy and bank governance, among other reforms agreed in May. No decision was made to release a new tranche of financial aid. "There was a general feeling that we must not lose time," Eurogroup president Jeroes Dijsselbloem said after the meeting in Bratislava.

The Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it helped relocated 222 people seeking international protection from Greece and Italy this week to other EU states. It also noted 1,356 people have been relocated or are scheduled to do so in September. A total of 3,677 asylum seekers have been relocated from Greece and 1,065 from Italy to other EU states since the start of the programme last year.

The EU commission's president asked his administration to withdraw a draft proposal on roaming charges, because he knew about it after it was public.

Russian propaganda outlet RT has offered British eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage his own TV show, British newspaper The Telegraph reports. Farage said had not agreed, adding: "I’ve appeared on RT occasionally ... They are a broadcaster with an audience. They may well have a political agenda, but you can’t ignore them.” Farage, who advocates the break up of the EU, has in the past praised Russia's authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin.

The manufactured cold war between Croatia and Serbia has been a convenient distraction from some of Serbia's domestic problems.

In the same week the commission published a draft proposal limiting a ban on roaming fees to 90 days a year, the text is withdrawn.

Left-wing Greek PM is hosting southern leaders to push growth and employment up the EU agenda, but German conservatives worry the new bloc could prove divisive.

“London's financial services market supports the real economy across Europe, not just in the UK,” said finance minister Hammond.

Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage has said that the appointement of Liberal former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt as European Parliament negotiator for Brexit will "no doubt speed up the UK's exit from the European Union." Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party, said that Verhofstadt, was "a fanatical supporter of EU federalism even by the standards of the European Parliament ... hates everything we stand for."

Cgil, Italy's largest trade union, has called its members to vote no at referendum on constitutional reform later this year. Cgil's position is a blow to centre-left prime minister Matteo Renzi, who said he would quit if his reform proposal was rejected by voters. The reform is designed to reduce the powers of the Senate and stabilise political majorities. The vote will be held between 15 November and 5 December.

The new anti-migrant and anti-EU Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could win 15 percent of votes at the Berlin state election on Sunday, according to the latest polls. The Social-Democrat party (SPD) leads the polls with 21 percent, ahead of chancellor Merkel's Christan Democrats (CDU) with 19 percent. Both parties are losing ground. Last Sunday, AfD came second ahead of the CDU at an election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 21 percent.

Three women, aged 19 to 39, were arrested Thursday near Paris after they were suspected of planning "violent and imminent actions," French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said. Their arrest followed the discovery last weekend near Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, of gas canisters in a car belonging to the father of one the three women. Police sources told French media they may have been planning attacks against a train station.

German chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday she wants EU-US talks on a free-trade deal, TTIP, to continue. She said in an interview with Germany's Funke media group that she is in favour of "waiting until the end of negotiations and then to make an assessment" of the outcome. She said the deal is important for creating jobs in Europe. Last week, France said it wanted the talks to stop.

VW spent €2.8m on lobbying in Brussels in 2015. Earlier this year, it met with commissioner Oettinger to discuss "diesel emissions", even though it's not his portfolio.