Brussels Briefing - Vice-president makes a bags of it

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Reducing the 8bn plastic bags that litter Europe and which can poison wildlife was deemed to be another mad Brussels idea by the European Commission’s first vice-president Frans Timmermans, a few weeks ago.

Luckily, someone pointed out to him that it was a good idea and the man publically changed his mind when questioned about it by journalists last week.