The European Medicines Agency (EMA) had planned to update its guidelines on the readability of leaflets accompanying medicines. "However, the completion of the work is currently impacted by the forthcoming move of the EMA from London to Amsterdam and the need for EMA to focus on core business priorities for the time being," EU health commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said in to the European Parliament on Monday.

ITALY's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio pledged to eject the Merkel-backed centre-right European People's Party from the European Parliament in the 2019 election as he argued the "era of austerity" has finally come to an end.

European Parliament denies access to draft papers, claiming publishing them could lead to 'self-censorship' by MEPs.

Paul Magnette, mayor of Charleroi and former minister-president of the Belgian Wallonia region, has been approached by the French Socialist Party to lead the socialist list in the European parliament elections in May 2019, reports Figaro. Magnette, who became famous for opposing the EU-Canada free trade agreement (Ceta) and threatening to derail it in the last minute, said he was "flattered" and would discuss the idea with his own party.