News in brief. EU bishops criticise Macron’s abortion right proposal. French president Emmanuel Macron plans to introduce proposals during France’s current presidency of the EU to have abortion recognised as a fundamental human right. This proposal has drawn strong criticism from the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), the bishops representing the Roman Catholic Church at the EU. The Catholic bishops not only criticise the legal basis for Macron’s proposal, but say it will threaten the integration of the EU.