A dispute over how the Italian government should handle its relationship with motorway operator Autostrade per l’Italia, the private company responsible for managing the collapsed Morandi Bridge viaduct in Genoa, is dividing the country’s leaders, news wires reported.

The European Commission closed yesterday the public survey on summertime arrangements with more than 4.6m submissions from all 28 Member States of the European Union.

Slovenia's parliament is poised to approve Marjan Sarec - 40-year old former comedian and prime minister-designate, in secret ballot, breaking a two-month political deadlock in the euro-area country. With his pledge to  sweep Slovenia’s elite out of state institutions, cut bureaucracy and make changes in the judicial and electoral systems, Sarec is expected to clinch the country’s top job with the support of as many as 52 of parliament’s 90 lawmakers, which will open the way for him to form a minority government that will depend on the backing of the leftist Levica party. 

The European Union’s Brexit negotiators fear that their meetings are being bugged by the British secret service so that UK can gain an advantage in the negotiations, a highly placed EU source revealed in regard to UK's obtaining of sensitive documents "within hours" of them being presented to a meeting of EU officials.
 

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday he would veto a law proposed by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party that would benefit bigger parties such as PiS and its main opposition grouping in European Parliament elections next year.

An online public survey, initiated by European Commission, on whether EU states should keep changing their clocks between summer- and wintertime closes on Thursday.

The European Commission has rebuked Italy's deputy premier Matteo Salvini's comments on EU "constraints" related to the Genoa bridge disaster, insisting that the country had benefited from billions of euros of investment for infrastructure projects, including roads.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed bilateral relations and the Syria crisis during a phone call on Wednesday, sources said.

Italy's Deputy PM and euroskeptic League leader Matteo Salvini attacked EU after Genoa bridge collapse, news wires reported on Wednesday. He told reporters in Catania, Sicily, that the failure of a roughly 50-year-old bridge shows how important it is to increase investment spending. Salvini, who is also Interior minister hinted that EU spending limits could put lives at risk.

British expatriates living in Spain, France and Italy launched a legal challenge on Tuesday against the 2016 referendum, saying Leave campaign broke electoral laws, so the Brexit vote was unconstitutional. The legal dispute was presented by pro-EU advocacy group UK in EU Challenge, which represents Britons living in France, Italy and Spain, news wires reported.