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The EU parliament will organise public hearings to assess the future commissioners' suitability for their job and their knowledge about the portfolio they had assigned, before the new EU commission takes office on 1 November.

The European Commission suggests the French data protection watchdog overstretched its remit to make Google delist names on a global scale from search query results, as part of the 'right to be forgotten' rule in the EU's data protection regulation.

The Speaker of the UK House of Commons said he is preparing for the resumption of parliament's work, and he wants it to sit again on Wednesday. John Bercow told reporters he has contacted party leaders and invited MPs to call for emergency debates, possibly on Brexit. The move comes after the Supreme Court ruled that prime minister Boris Johnson's controversial decision to suspend parliament was unlawful and void.

Spain's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in favour of moving former dictator Francisco Franco's remains from a mausoleum in Madrid - a request made by the government of former prime minister Pedro Sanchez. According to El País, Franco's family is expected to appeal the decision. In 2018, the EU Parliament urged Spain to "withdrawal all symbols or monuments that exalt the military uprising, the [Spanish] civil war, and Franco's dictatorship".

The UK supreme court ruled that the suspension of parliament is "of no effect", and opposition parties immediately call for British prime minister Boris Johnson's resignation.

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled in favour of Google in a case over the 'right to be forgotten,' a key component of the EU's data protection regulation that allows people to delist their names from search engine queries. The French data protection authority CNIL had taken Google to task over the matter, demanding it delist names globally. The Court disagreed, saying it only applies to the EU.

Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP) both called on British prime minister Boris Johnson to resign on Tuesday, in the immediate wake of his government's defeat at the Supreme Court, which found the suspension of parliament to be "unlawful", and the advice given to the Queen also to be "unlawful". Cobyn, speaking in Brighton at the Labour conference, told Johnson to "consider his position", and the SNP said "resign".

John Bercow, the Speaker of the UK House of Commons, reacted instantly to recall parliament on Tuesday, after the decision of the Supreme Court that Boris Johnson's suspension had been "unlawful." Bercow said he would now consult with party leaders - currently in the middle of the party conference season, with Labour in Brighton this week - about a date for the resumption of parliament.

The UK's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament for five weeks ahead of Brexit was "unlawful." In a blow to the government, the ruling stated the court both had the power to judge the issue, and that the PM's advice to the Queen was "unlawful, void and of no effect", meaning parliament is no longer suspended. The Speaker must now decide on a recall.

The Luxembourg-based top court of the EU on Tuesday dismissed the EU Commission's 2015 order to Starbucks to pay up to €30m in back taxes to the Netherlands. The case is part of competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager's crackdown on unlawful tax breaks offered by EU countries to multinationals. The ruling could influence Vestager's future efforts to open more such cases as she continues her role as competition chief.

EU interior ministers will discuss plans, cooked up by Germany, France, Italy, Malta and Finland, to redistribute migrants stranded at sea. The devil will be in the details.

EU countries have tilted toward hawkish US diplomacy on Iran, blaming it for Saudi Arabia attacks and calling for wider disarmament talks.

Twenty-four of the 47 countries at the UN human rights council denounced the worsening track record of Saudi Arabia on human rights, the Guardian reports. Lead by 15 European countries the joint statement condemned the use of torture, unlawful detentions and unfair trials of critics, including female activists and journalists. They also asked for the truth on Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

US president Donald Trump signed a defence deal with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda during a bilateral meeting in New York on Monday. He confirmed that 1,000 additional US soldiers will be stationed in Poland, on top of the current 4,500 ones, Deutsche Welle reports. The 1,000 soldiers will most likely be moved from Germany. According to Trump, Poland will "be bearing the entire expense."

At the party's annual conference in Brighton a narrow majority of Labour delegates voted in favour of neutrality on Brexit. The vote confirms leader Jeremy Corbyn's plan to force an election first, then renegotiate the Brexit deal with the EU and to organise a second referendum on the new deal, or 'Remain', after that. Grassroot Labour activists tried to put Labour into the Remain camp but lost the vote.

Italy is confident it can count on EU flexibility on its budget for 2020, now that the new government has friendlier ties with Brussels, the leader of the Democratic Party in parliament, Graziano Delrio, told Bloomberg. He added that Italy will respect the fiscal rules but that there will be a budget deficit. The new government of prime minister Giuseppe Conte has decided to avoid clashes with the EU.

The council of the city of Brussels has agreed a resolution declaring the city in "state of urgency on climate", Le Soir reported. Concretely, the city council decided to become carbon-neutral by 2050. The decision came in response to requests from many of its citizens. The PTB and NVA parties did not support the resolution.

Detaching the Netanyahu-era alliance with Hungary's Viktor Orban and other illiberal regimes in Europe will serve both EU unity and Israel's integrity. Scraping the deal with Poland to rewrite the history of Second World War falls under the same category.

European commissioners ought to be forced to sell shares in firms that they will one day regulate, a French MEP at the coalface of an EU vetting process has said.

EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has called the alternative proposal of the UK government on the Irish border issue unacceptable. Barnier said Boris Johnson wants to get rid of the so-called backstop, "and wants … a regulatory and customs land border on the island of Ireland." "The UK government also wants the EU to change the way the internal market and border control operates after Brexit," he added.