What happened in the EU in April 2019?
Brexit... is delayed. The next deadline: 31 October. Will anything change by then? Probably not much. So why was Brexit delayed? The UK couldn't agree on anything, and the EU countries agreed because some are hoping the UK will stay. Others are hoping the EU will have a better deal with the UK.The delay means the UK will participate in the EU elections by the end of this month. Which will be strange: the newly elected Brits will get out in possibly a few months. But wasn't Brexit strange already?
©Soon, with a speed limiter in the EU?
In the meantime, the EU is banning the UK's most-used pesticide (article), the Parliament is thinking about speed limiters in cars (article) and the EU also agreed on a controversial internet copyright law (article). Yes, voting for the Parliament matters, because those people decide on topics that affect EU citizens directly.
Some areas in politics are very difficult to agree on at the EU level. Taxes, foreign affairs and migration are typical examples. But exceptions happen. The US President said Israel can keep a part of Syria it conquered in 1967, and all the EU countries said together it can't (article). The EU will also create a gigantic database of fingerprints and face scans of over 350 million people to track migrants and criminals (article).
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