Thursday
22nd Jun 2017
By EUOBSERVER
US coffee giant Starbucks announced on Tuesday that it is set to hire some 2,500 refugees in Europe, Reuters news agency reports. The company, which is the world's largest coffee chain, said the hiring spree in Europe is part of a larger global drive to recruit 10,000 refugees in 75 countries.
EU leaders will get their first chance at the summit to assess whether the Franco-German motor of European integration has been refuelled by the election of French president Emmanuel Macron.
The Netherlands is hosting a meeting for nine small EU member states on the eve of this week's European summit. After Brexit, the Dutch will lose one of their key allies.
The EU is paying out large sums of money to Turkey amid a government led crackdown on opposition and constitutional changes that concentrate power into the presidency.
Outgoing MEP Mariya Gabriel made mostly general remarks about the need to “complete the digital single market”, but did not bump into any trouble.
EU ministers are due to discuss the “objective criteria” for where to relocate the two London-based EU agencies after Brexit, but there is nothing to prevent horse-trading.
Sylvie Goulard - as well as two other former centrist MEPs, who are now ministers - is suspected of having paid party members with European Parliament money.
