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AU Opposes EU Plan for Extraterritorial Migrant Processing
March 01, 2019
The Guardian reports that a leaked paper from the African Union (AU) shows the multilateral organization is seeking to dissuade coastal African countries from participating in an EU plan to establish migrant processing centers in their territories, finding such a scheme would violate the international human rights agenda.
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May Offers UK Parliament Vote to Delay Brexit
February 27, 2019
NPR reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May has offered the House of Commons an opportunity to vote to delay Brexit for up to three months if they reject, in a series of votes in March, both the withdrawal deal she is negotiating with the EU and departure of Britain from the EU on WTO terms.
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Facebook Pledges Opening of Political Ads to External Analysis
February 22, 2019
Facebook has responded to pressure from campaign groups by promising to open its online platform to external analysis of the ways in which it allows users to target political advertising in the EU.
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EU Council Supports Restrictive Online Copyright Rules
February 22, 2019
Reuters reports that national officials from a majority of EU countries backed, over the objection of five member states, new copyright rules that will require internet companies including Facebook and Google to pay publishers to reproduce news snippets and to remove copyright-protected content from their platforms.
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Spain Hinders Brexit Visa Rules with Gibraltar “Colony” Reference
February 22, 2019
The Guardian reports that the Spanish government has stymied legislation that would permit visa-free travel by UK visitors to the EU in case of a no-deal Brexit by including in the relevant legislation a reference to Gibraltar as a British “colony,” causing the European Parliament to reject the rules.
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