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Small Parties Cry Foul on EU Parliament Voting Proposals
February 08, 2016
Politico reports that European Parliament political party groups other than the large European People's Party ("EPP") and Socialists and Democrats ("S&D") groups are criticizing a proposal from the Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs working group that would limit the ability of small party groups to slow or block the passage of EU legislation.
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Google Faces EU Pressure on Tax Deals
February 08, 2016
Politico reports that EU and national authorities in EU member states are supplementing their pressure on competition and privacy issues against internet giant Google with calls for greater transparency in the company's tax payments to individual European governments.
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Italian PM Attacks EU Rule on Refugee Spending
February 05, 2016
Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi has criticized an EU policy that permits EU countries to deduct their funding of an aid program in Turkey from calculations of their budget deficits but does not authorize the Italian government to make the same deduction with regard to its spending on rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean.
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Watchdog Pushes for Transparency at EU Commission
February 05, 2016
Citing concerns over a lack of transparency in external advice received by the EU executive, European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has called on the European Commission to publish the minutes of meetings with over 800 "expert groups" formed by the body to offer input on EU legislation.
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ECJ Official: Undocumented Migrant Cannot Be Imprisoned
February 04, 2016
Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ") Advocate General Maciej Szpunar has advised that the ECJ should overturn the imprisonment of Ghanaian national caught in France attempting to take the train to London using someone else's passport, reasoning that the migrant was not trying to cross an external EU border and has not been asked to leave the bloc.
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