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EU Committee Seeks Robust "Social Rights"
July 11, 2016
The EU Committee of the Regions recently hosted a discussion praising the development by the European Commission of a "European pillar of social rights" and calling for involvement of regional and local authorities to address social inequalities and ensure access to benefits.
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FRA Hosts Trainers on Justice and Home Affairs
July 11, 2016
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights recently hosted a meeting of training coordinators for EU Justice and Home Affairs agencies to discuss joint initiatives among these trainers on aspects of the FRA agenda.
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Politicos Disagree on Solution to EU Challenges
July 11, 2016
An article in The Economist considers how politicians in the EU institutions and its member states are calling for contradictory responses to Britain's exit from the bloc, ranging from returning more authority to the national governments to speeding along EU federalization.
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EU Leaders Head off "Copycat" Referendums
July 11, 2016
The Economist reports that leaders of EU member states are reacting to the recent UK vote to leave the EU by seeking to prevent referendums in their own countries in which their citizens decide whether they remain part of the bloc.
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Gray: EU Stokes Tension with Rule of Law Framework
July 06, 2016
Former US Ambassador to the EU Boyden Gray writes that the EU's use of its Rule of Law Framework to pressure Poland to resolve its constitutional court standoff has no solid basis in the bloc's treaties and threatens to blow open tensions between the EU and its member states in the wake of Brexit.
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