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EU Legislators Protest “Harmful” Treatment by US Government
January 15, 2019
NPR reports that members of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the US recently sent a letter to members of the US Congress protesting the Trump Administration’s “harmful approach” to US-EU relations after its decision to downgrade the status of the EU’s Mission to the US from a national delegation to an international organization.
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EU Bans “Unfair” Supermarket Trading Practices
January 11, 2019
The activist organization Oxfam has applauded new EU rules prohibiting supermarkets from using “unfair trading practices,” such as unilateral changes to orders and to supply agreements, in their dealings with food suppliers inside and outside the EU.
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EU Advances Ban on Broad Range of Plastic Items
January 11, 2019
Politico reports that negotiators from the European Parliament and European Council have reached an agreement to advance a “single-use plastics directive,” which will ban, beginning in 2021, broad categories of plastic items, including straws, plates, cutlery, and drinking cups made from a certain type of plastic, from circulation in the EU.
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Italian, Polish Euroskeptics Discuss Party Alliance for EU Reform
January 11, 2019
Reuters reports that Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has visited the head of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party Jarosław Kaczyński to discuss the formation of a “eurosceptic alliance” to compete in upcoming European Parliament elections in May on a platform of EU reform.
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ECtHR Approves Mandatory School Attendance Rules in Germany
January 11, 2019
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the removal of children from their parents’ home in Germany to receive temporary, government-approved education due to the parents’ refusal to send their children to state-run schools complied with European human rights law on the protection of private and family life.
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