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Romania’s government boasts about its economic growth rate, but Romanians are leaving the country in large numbers. Can the EU elections in 2019 change the trend or will the migration pace intensify?

Some argue that we should tread carefully and refrain from asking too much in terms of human rights from the Vietnamese, because if we do so we could end up pushing Vietnam into China’s orbit. But this doesn’t hold, writes Jude Kirton-Darling.

It's been more than 75 years since the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published his seminal 'Three laws on Robotics', a concise ethical framework that came to govern the principles by which Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been developed worldwide.

Polish deputy minister for development, Paweł Chorąży, left government because he said a banal and obvious thing: Without immigrants in Poland, there will be not enough hands to work and no economic growth. Rather than demonise them, the government should welcome the newcomers, writes Bartosz T. Wieliński.

The Greek government will be able to gradually have more and more access to markets as the end of the bailout, the current economic outlook and a sound budget allow Greece to regain its financial independence, former Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said in an interview with EURACTIV's media partner Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).

A global fund originally set up in 2010 under the aegis of the UNFCCC to assist developing countries fight global warming got back on track with a $1 billion splurge, but the US vetoed a project that would have loaned $100 million to China. EURACTIV's media partner Climate Home News reports.

The former head of Poland's Supreme Court, Malgorzata Gersdorf, has called on all judges forced into early retirement by the Polish government since July to go back to their desks in line with Friday's (19 October) EU court injunction. She issued the appeal in her "constitutional" role, she said in an open letter, challenging the authority of her government-appointed successor, and highlighting the judicial chaos in Poland at the moment.

Should he be picked as the European People's Party (EPP) lead candidate for the European Commission’s top job, Alexander Stubb vows to “work towards a carbon neutral Europe by 2045”. EURACTIV's media partner Climate Home News reports.

Spain and Sweden have not joined the group of European countries most critical of Saudi Arabia following the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Germany, the fourth-biggest exporter of weapons to Saudi Arabia, behind the US, Britain and France, said on Sunday that it would halt arms exports. Neither France, Britain, Spain or Sweden have followed Berlin's move. Saudi Arabia is Sweden's most important export market in the Middle East.

Italy's Piedmont region and Denmark's capital Copenhagen were listed as best places to go in 2019 by Lonely Planet, the worlds largest travel guide book publisher. With 15 Michelin-starred restaurants and an extremely bike-friendly culture, Copenhagen was found the best city to visit. Serbia's Novi Sad and Croatia's Zadar were other European top-10 listed cities. Alpine walking trails, wine and truffles made Piedmont the best region to visit.

Italy's 5 Star Movement is to launch a new pro-European, but anti-establishment political group in January.

German chemical company Bayer lost a legal dispute over cancer risks in its herbicide glyphosate when a San Francisco appeal court on Monday ruled that a school gardener should be paid $78m in compensation after using Monsanto's weed killer "Roundup" and eventually contracting lymph node cancer at the age of 42. Monsanto has rejected any link between glyphosate and cancer. Bayer and Monsanto merged in 2016.

"The world doesn't need a new arms race that'd benefit no one and on the contrary would bring even more instability," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, said after US president Donald Trump announced that he was pulling out of the 1987 Reagan-era INF arms control treaty. "Thanks to the INF Treaty, almost three thousand missiles with nuclear and conventional warheads have been removed and verifiably destroyed," Mogherini added.

It is in cities that new forms of poverty and new groups of people facing vulnerability, like the working poor, are first seen.

An estimated 80 percent of Syrian refugees in the EU are unemployed - despite this, the integration of asylum seekers and migration remains outside the European Commission's policy objectives in its latest budget proposals for regional development and cohesion policy.

European Parliament secretary general Klaus Welle refuses to publish papers discussing what has been done with MEPs' requests for measures to prevent sexual harassment.

Belgium’s energy production is plunging as its nuclear reactors are taken offline for repairs, with the power shortfall this winter seen as a test of the country’s ability to cope when the reactors are phased out from 2022.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, campaigning for her Christian Democrats (CDU) to retain control of the crucial state of Hesse in next Sunday’s election, promised legislation to ward off the threat of air pollution leading to driving bans.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (22 October) called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a "monstrosity" and vowed to halt all German arms exports to Saudi Arabia until the case is cleared up.