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Malta Proposes EU Tax for Refugee Rejection
June 02, 2017
Reuters reports that the government of Malta recently proposed a new EU policy toward asylum seekers during times of heightened migration to the bloc under which the EU would pay member states 60,000 euros for each refugee they take above a prescribed quota and tax member states 60,000 euros per refugee they fail to take in violation of the quota.
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Germany: Link EU Funding to Rule-of-Law Adherence
May 31, 2017
Politico reports that, concerned with the inability of EU institutions to discipline Poland over its ongoing constitutional conflict, a German position paper on EU budget rules seeks a way to withhold the bloc's "cohesion funds" for developing regions from countries that fail to uphold "fundamental principles of the rule of law.”
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EU Parliament Chief Pushes UK on Citizens' Rights
May 30, 2017
The Guardian reports that European Parliament President Antonio Tajani insisted in a recent meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May that the UK must permit citizens of other EU member states living in the UK the same rights after Brexit, signaling the possibility that the Court of Justice of the EU could maintain jurisdiction over people based in British territory.
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Academic: Founders Intended ECHR as "Living Instrument"
May 26, 2017
In a recent review of a book on the founding of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Associate Professor Ed Bates of the University of Leicester indicates that countries that have signed up to the ECHR have agreed to be bound by a "living instrument" in which supranational human rights judges might discover new meanings over time.
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ECtHR: Russia Violated Rights in 2004 School Siege
May 26, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the government of Russia violated the human rights of the hundreds of hostages killed in its siege of a school in Beslan in 2004 and ordered Russia to pay three million euros to the families of the victims.
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