European Institutions

  • FRA Seeks Deepened Cooperation on Rights Agenda

    August 02, 2017

    At the latest meeting of the agency's management board, leaders of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) called for more institutionalized cooperation between the FRA, European national human rights institutions, and European "equality bodies," all of which seek to mainstream the modern human rights agenda in European countries.

  • EU Paper Imagines New Powers for Euro Managers

    August 02, 2017

    Politico reports that, in May, the European Commission released a "reflection paper" calling for ambitious reforms to the eurozone, including the creation of an EU finance minister and a euro area treasury and the transformation of the now-informal Eurogroup into an institutionalized body accountable to the European Parliament.

  • EU Seeks Post-Brexit Family Resettlement Rights in UK

    August 02, 2017

    The Telegraph reports that, in a pair of papers on the direction of Brexit negotiations with the UK, EU officials push for the UK to recognize the right of EU citizens in Britain to resettle their "current and future family members" in the country after Brexit and to pay for the pensions of employees of EU institutions.

  • ECB Official Calls for Completion of Banking Union

    August 02, 2017

    Reuters reports that, according to the European Central Bank's (ECB) Governing Board member Francois Villeroy de Galhau, the EU must simplify its eurozone banking rules to complete the project of bringing all banks in the bloc under a single, supranational supervisor.

  • ECtHR: Russia Failed to Review Electoral Irregularities

    August 02, 2017

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the Russian authorities failed to seriously review the alleged manipulation of city and state election results in St. Petersburg in 2011, finding that the voiding of over 50,000 votes and discrepancies between voting counts justified an investigation to satisfy the complainants' right to free elections.

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