European Institutions

ECJ: EU Members Must Offer Benefits to Foreign Workers

August 09, 2017

The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has held that an EU member state must provide a national of a non-EU country who holds a permit to work in that member state the same welfare and social security benefits as it offers to its citizens.
CoE Body Warns of "Nationalistic Populism"

August 09, 2017

The annual report of the Council of Europe's (CoE) Commission Against Racism and Intolerance warned of a rise in "nationalistic populism" across Europe in 2016, asserting that "racist insults and xenophobic hate speech have reached unprecedented levels" and that Islamophobia is a "persisting trend."
ECtHR: Criminal DNA Database Violated Rights

August 09, 2017

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that a French law requiring the taking of DNA samples from convicted criminals and their storage in a database for up to 40 years violated the right to privacy by failing to take into account the seriousness of the relevant crimes and by not providing the ability for criminals to apply for deletion of their DNA data.
EU Agency Calls for Halt to Child Migrant Detention

August 09, 2017

Raising questions regarding the proposed source and amount of funds it deems necessary to prevent "stress and trauma" among detained migrant children, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has called on EU countries to "end" detention of such minors in favor of "alternative housing, counselling, coaching," and other methods.
UK Report Details ECHR Extradition Interference

August 09, 2017

The Daily Telegraph reports that an unpublished study commissioned by the UK Home Office reveals that the UK Human Rights Act, which effectively transposes the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into British law, has prevented the extradition of over 40 suspected terrorists to their home countries.