The European Parliament is to spend almost £2 million on press monitoring and trawling Eurosceptic debates on the internet for "trolls" with whom to debate in the run-up and during euro-elections next year amid fears that hostility to the EU is growing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9845442/EU-to-set-up-euro-election-troll-patrol-to-tackle-Eurosceptic-surge.html
Days before a crucial EU summit the president of the European Parliament has offered a dire warning over the state of the European Union. Martin Schulz told a German regional newspaper the future of the bloc is at risk.
In an interview published in Monday's edition of Bonn's General Anzeiger newspaper, the German politician who was also elected president of the European Parliament in January last year, warned that the EU's survival was "under threat." He added that it had lost a great deal of public support.
"When people turn away from a project or an idea, then at some point it will come to an end," Martin Schulz said.
The British prime minister David Cameron had simply "rubbed salt in an open wound," Schulz said, when he announced a referendum on Britain's future in the EU. If a British exit were to go ahead, he warned, member states would become "playthings for the economic and political interests of other world regions," and would "plunge into insignificance."
http://www.dw.de/european-parliament-president-offers-stark-warning-on-eu/a-16573172
More than 4,000 European Union civil servants earn more than German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s €16,275 monthly salary, it was reported on Sunday
http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20130203-47727.html#.UQ8tT0eYzf8
Ex-World Bank head: EU not out of the woods yet
http://www.dw.de/ex-world-bank-head-eu-not-out-of-the-woods-yet/a-165723577
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