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EU Committee Calls for New Migrant Quota Scheme
November 27, 2017
EUobserver reports that, dismissing opposition by EU Council President Donald Tusk to future migrant quota schemes, the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament adopted a report calling for new minimum migrant quotas for each EU member state and the withdrawal of development funding from countries that refused to comply with the policy.
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EU Council Chief Talks down Future Migrant Quotas
November 27, 2017
According to EUobserver, the President of the Council of the EU Donald Tusk recently stated that he didn't "see any special future" for minimum quotas of migrants for each EU member state after pushback from the Central European Visegrad countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland - to the European Commission's most recent migrant quota scheme.
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Eastern EU Members Miss out on Agencies
November 22, 2017
A Politico article highlights how the selection of Amsterdam and Paris as the post-Brexit homes of the European Medicines Agency and the European Banking Authority, respectively, has signaled the growing divisions between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe regarding the future aims of the EU project.
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CoE Calls for Rights Upgrades in Switzerland
November 21, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has called on Switzerland to loosen restrictions imposed on migrants under current asylum rules, including by eliminating administrative detention for migrant children over the age of 15, and expressed concerns regarding resources devote to the country's national human rights institution.
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FRA: Poverty Is a Rights Violation
November 21, 2017
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has warned EU member states that allowing people to live in poverty is a violation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and has called for governments to use the European Pillar of Social Rights as a "starting point" to address these rights violations in Europe.
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