Riks roundup of the week:
The European People’s Party, the biggest faction in the European Parliament, endorses EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen for a second term after she lends her support for outsourcing asylum processing outside of EU territority, but at the same time it backtracks on its demand to scrap an EU ban on the combustion engine.
The Irish public delivers a blow to Irish politicians, rejecting a proposal in a referendum to change the Irish Constitution by introducing a new vague alternative for the word ”family”.
Staff at the European Central Bank protest against a statement by ECB Board Member Frank Elderson, complaining that his remarks on the need to “reprogramme” employees failing to embrace the bank’s climate policies have an “undeniable authoritarian note”