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UK Paper Seeks Continued EU Science Ties
September 19, 2017
The UK government has published a position paper stating that British officials involved in Brexit negotiations will seek to agree "a far-reaching science and innovation agreement with the EU that establishes a framework for future collaboration" and permits the UK to continue to receive billions of pounds in research funding from the bloc.
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ECJ Rejects Challenge to Refugee Quotas
September 19, 2017
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) recently rejected a legal challenge from the governments of Hungary and Slovakia against an EU policy requiring the countries to accept the resettlement of a share of asylum seekers in their territory, finding that the EU had the authority to impose the quota system.
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CoE Anti-Torture Committee Urges Italian Prison Reform
September 19, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has released a report critiquing elements of the Italian penitentiary system it believes violate previous CoE recommendations, European Court of Human Rights case law, and the 1984 UN Convention on Torture.
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ECJ Limits National Options in GMO Debate
September 19, 2017
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has ruled that EU member states may not take emergency measures to prohibit the cultivation of genetically modified food that has been approved by the European Commission without evidence of “serious” health or environmental risk.
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NGOs: EU Energy Plan Should Consider Social Costs
September 19, 2017
Nongovernmental organization participants on the European Economic and Social Committee have expressed concern over the European Commission's proposed Clean Energy for All Europeans package, which they predict may put 50 million Europeans at risk of “energy poverty.”
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