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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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EU Agency Seeks Unified Climate Adaptation Policies
November 29, 2017
A report from the European Environment Agency calls for "closer policy alignment" and more access to EU funding among the bloc's member states to permit adaptation to the ongoing impacts of global warming.
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CoE Body: Irish Housing Breaches Social Charter
November 28, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee of Social Rights has found that Ireland has breached the legally binding European Social Charter by providing "substandard" social housing to indigent people in the country.
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