European Institutions

  • Europe gives U.S. Ultimatum for Data-Transfer Deal

    June 02, 2021

    European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová has stated that the United States must pass new legislation to limit how its national security agencies access Europeans' data if Washington and Brussels are to discuss a new deal on transferring people's digital information across the Atlantic.

  • ECtHR Holds Romania Must Compensate LGBT Group for Homophobic Attack

    June 02, 2021

    The European Court of Human Rights (EctHR) has ordered Romania to pay compensation due to police failing to protect an LGBT film screening that was stormed by protesters in 2013, citing that Romania failed to uphold the prohibition of discrimination as well the right to freedom of assembly and association.

  • EU May Implement New Rule-of-Law Mechanism before Securing Court Approval

    June 02, 2021

    The European Union’s executive body plans to implement its new rule-of-law sanctioning authority later this year, not waiting for a decision from the European Court of Justice as expected, leaving countries who don’t follow the new rules without funds from the new 1.2 trillion euro stimulus package.

  • ECtHR Rules UK Spies Violated Human Rights

    May 26, 2021

    Following revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Britain's GCHQ agency breached fundamental human rights by intercepting and harvesting vast amounts of communications from across the world.

  • Radio Free Europe Sues Russia at ECtHR

    May 25, 2021

    U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has filed a legal case at the European Court of Human Rights to challenge the "foreign agent" label imposed on it by Russian authorities who have heavily fined the outlet and frozen its Moscow bank accounts.

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