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UK Seeks to Satisfy ECtHR on Prisoner Voting
November 30, 2017
The BBC reports that the British Government is planning to extend the right to vote to convicted criminals serving less than a year in prison and out on day-release to satisfy a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling against the UK's blanket ban on prisoner voting.
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EIB Predicts 35-Year Delay in UK Refund
November 30, 2017
The BBC reports that Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Alexander Stubb has stated that, despite Britain's expected departure from the EU 35 years before then, the EIB will not fully repay the UK government its billions of euros of investments in the bank until the year 2054.
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ECJ Official Finds Facebook Subject to All EU Data Regimes
November 30, 2017
Fortune reports that Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Yves Bot has advised that any data-protection agency within the EU has the authority to take action against Facebook for violating data-privacy rules, potentially subjecting the tech giant to dozens of competing regimes of data regulation.
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Lawyer: UK Must Not Submit to ECJ After Brexit
November 29, 2017
British barrister Martin Howe QC writes that reported plans by the UK government to require British courts to refer decisions on the rights of EU citizens who remain in the UK after Brexit to the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) would amount to a "squalid and abject surrender" of the UK's national sovereignty to the ECJ.
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EU Committee Adopts Proposals on Asylum Reform
November 29, 2017
In October, the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee approved a set of proposals to reform the EU asylum system to automatically assign refugees to various EU member states to spread the responsibility for accepting migrants claiming refugee status beyond the "frontline" EU countries.
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