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CoE Body Calls for Corruption Reform in Austria
February 23, 2017
A report from the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Group of States against Corruption calls on Austria to develop a code of conduct for parliamentarians on conflicts of interest, pushes for tighter restrictions on their access to lobbyists, and seeks a reduction of the influence of the executive branch in the selection of judges.
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HRW: EU Must Impose Sanctions on Poland
February 23, 2017
Philippe Dam of Human Rights Watch calls on the European Commission to pursue its actions against Poland using its purported authority under the Rule of Law Mechanism by attempting to trigger EU treaty sanctions against the country over the government's dispute with the Constitutional Tribunal.
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ECtHR: Russian Removal of Syrian Would Violate Rights
February 23, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Russia's removal of a Syrian national to his home country would violate his right to life and that its continued detention of the man for overstaying his visa violates his right to liberty, calling for the country to immediately release the man from detention.
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MEPs Vote for EU Centralization Measures
February 22, 2017
Doubling down on the idea of forming "a more perfect Union" in Europe in the face of Brexit and rising nationalism, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have passed a set of resolutions calling for more muscular EU centralization policies, including through the creation of an EU finance minister and a common eurozone budget.
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UK Peer: House of Lords Risks Legitimacy on Brexit
February 21, 2017
The Daily Mail reports that, following the UK House of Commons' passage of a bill authorizing Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger negotiations over the country's exit from the EU, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont warned that the House of Lords would risk its "survival" as an unelected body if it amended the bill to place conditions on Brexit.
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