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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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Germany, Denmark Seek EU Extension on Border Controls
November 21, 2017
EUobserver reports that, due to "a considerable amount of illegal migration" and terrorism concerns, Germany and Denmark have notified the European Commission that they intend to extend border controls along their normally passport-free Schengen borders by six months.
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EC Seeks Completed Banking Union in 2018
November 20, 2017
EUobserver reports that the European Commission (EC) is seeking to use a recent push for legislation on EU banking rules to complete the EU's planned Banking Union, first proposed in 2012, by the end of the year 2018, as it seeks to eliminate financial ties between banks and the governments of their countries.
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