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UK Politicians Plan Vote to Retain EU Charter Rights
January 03, 2018
The Guardian reports on plans of the UK Labour Party to force a vote in the British Parliament pressuring the government to retain all provisions of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, including employment rights and the "right to equality," in British law after Brexit.
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Former UK Minister: Staying in ECJ Means No Brexit
January 03, 2018
Politico reports that former Brexit Minister David Jones has warned that failure to leave the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) after Brexit will mean that Britain has not "in reality left the European Union."
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Critics Oppose Macron's EU Policy of "Soft Protectionism"
January 03, 2018
Politico reports that a group of EU political and civil society leaders are concerned that French President Emmanuel Macron is threatening the integrity of the EU by pushing for economic policies that boost a "soft protectionism" of French companies and workers at the expense of other countries in the bloc.
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ECtHR Recognizes Right to Wear Skullcap in Court
January 02, 2018
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently held that a Bosnian court had violated a Muslim witness's right to manifest his religion by convicting him of contempt of court for refusing to remove his religious skullcap during legal proceedings.
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Academic Welcomes "Flexible" ECtHR Approach in Georgia
January 02, 2018
Professor Philip Leach of Middlesex University welcomes a recent holding of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in which it used a "more flexible, contextual approach" than in past cases to find that the Georgian government had violated a politician's right against "misuse of power" by removing him from his cell and improperly threatening him after his arrest.
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