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A TOP EU judge has said that member states should have the final say on the bloc’s trade deals, instead of the European Commission.
Eleanor Sharpston, an advocate general at the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), said on Wednesday that there were several policy areas where the commission and EU members share responsibility.
One of those areas is “provisions laying down fundamental labour and environmental standards and falling within the scope of either social [or environmental] policy.”
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR