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ECtHR Receives Case on Azerbaijan's Compliance with Judgment
January 08, 2018
News.am reports that the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers has, for the first time, referred to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a question whether a country has refused to abide by a ECtHR judgment in the case of an imprisoned opposition politician in Azerbaijan.
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EU Members Disagree on Solution to Migration Flows
January 08, 2018
Voice of America reports that, at a recent summit of EU member states, Western EU members complained of the rejection of future migration quotas from members of the Visegrad Group - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - which instead offered funds for EU border security.
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ECtHR: Countries Must Recognize Gay Marriages Contracted Abroad
January 08, 2018
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Italy violated the rights of same-sex couples to respect for private and family life by failing "to take account of their social reality" in refusing to recognize marriages they had contracted abroad.
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EU Bodies Battle over Future of Migration Quotas
January 08, 2018
EUobserver reports that the European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos has criticized an assertion by EU Council President Donald Tusk that mandatory EU quotas for migration are unworkable as "unacceptable" and contrary to "one of the main pillars of the European project, the principle of solidarity."
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Report Shows Heavy UK Subsidies for European Defense
January 08, 2018
James Rogers and Jack Wright of the Henry Jackson Society have published a paper showing the disproportionately high amount of funding the UK has contributed to the defense of Europe, as many members of the EU have consistently failed to meet their funding mandate for NATO operations.
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