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MPs Split with UK Policy on EU Residents
July 15, 2016
The BBC reports that UK Members of Parliament have voted for the British Government to reconsider its policy of refraining from assuring migrants from other EU countries that they will be permitted to remain in the country before negotiations over Britain's exit from the EU begin.
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EU Parliament Agrees to Border and Coast Guard
July 15, 2016
The European Parliament has agreed to a proposal from the European Commission to build on the EU's current border agency, Frontex, to create an EU Border and Coast Guard that will collectivize management of EU external borders and monitor the performance of national border authorities.
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Dutch PM Warns Against Post-Brexit EU Federalism
July 14, 2016
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte has called on EU leaders to recognize the discomfort many Europeans have with Brussels centralization and warned against using the UK vote to leave the EU as a reason "to rush blindly forward towards more political integration and a more federal Europe" among the remaining EU member states.
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ECtHR: Latvian Declaration Failed to Satisfy Right to Investigation
July 14, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that, despite its acceptance by the Court, a unilateral declaration of human rights violations and compensation from Latvia to a complainant who accused the country's authorities of ill treatment failed to satisfy the complainant's right to investigation of the harms inflicted against him.
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ECtHR: Hungary's Refugee Detention Violated Rights
July 14, 2016
In the case of an Iranian national fleeing to avoid a criminal conviction based on his sexual orientation, the European Court of Human Rights has held that Hungary's detention of the asylum seeker for approximately two months during proceedings to determine his refugee status violated the rights of the asylum seeker to "liberty and security of person."
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