What happened in the EU in August 2018?
August is a quiet month for politics. Politicians are on vacation. People working in the administration too. The EU is no exception to the rule.
Two interesting topics though. In the EU, clocks have to change one hour in March and one hour back in October. The EU asked citizens what they thought, and many (4 out of 5) said they wanted this to stop. The Commission proposes to let the EU countries decide themselves whether they keep this yearly change or not (article) (article).
The EU also has a role in international affairs. The USA's president wants to give penalties to companies who do business with or in Iran. The EU's chief of foreign affairs said it wanted EU companies to do exactly the opposite: do more business with and in Iran (article).
And of course, Brexit. The United Kingdom leaving the EU will stay in the EU news until the deadline, 19 March 2019. So what happened in August? The most important is that the British government looked at what would happen if the Brits don't find a deal with the EU. As you may expect, it will cost the Brits some things, like higher fees for the UK's credit card users (read more here).
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