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NGO Urges Social Worker Use of Rights Law
September 14, 2017
Helen Wildbore of the British Institute of Human Rights writes on how British social workers should expand their use of the UK Human Rights Act, a law that effectively transposes the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, in the country's courts to help further the "dignity and respect" of their clients.
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Davis: EU Is Playing down Progress of Brexit Talks
September 14, 2017
In a recent interview, UK Brexit Secretary David Davis asserted that EU officials negotiating the terms of Britain's exit from the bloc looked "a bit silly" playing down the progress made in negotiations so far in an attempt to strengthen their hand in upcoming talks over the future relationship between the UK and EU.
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Hungarian Official: Ceding Power to EU Is a "Dead End"
September 13, 2017
Reuters reports that Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has pledged to fight against EU migrant resettlement plans despite the dismissal by an EU court of Hungary's legal challenge to the policy and warned that the surrender of powers by EU member states to the supranational organization represents a "dead end street."
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ECtHR: Businesses Must Respect Employee Privacy
September 06, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the Romanian courts failed to uphold an employee's right to privacy by permitting a company that had secretly monitored the employee's communications to fire him due to the company's discovery that he had sent personal messages during work hours.
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EU Official Describes Basis of Rule of Law Mechanism
September 01, 2017
In testimony before a European Parliament committee, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said he would discuss potential action on Polish legislation on the country's courts with the College of Commissioners and asserted that the EU must use its expansive Rule of Law Mechanism to ensure the correct application of EU law across the bloc.
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