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MEPs Pressure Council on Board Targets for Women
December 16, 2015
Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") have placed pressure on the European Council to explain why it has not yet acted on a proposal passed by Parliament in 2013 to institute a 40% target for the proportion of non-executive directors on company boards who are women.
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MEPs Warn of "Low" EU Recycling Targets
December 16, 2015
A group of Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") have generally praised a proposal from the European Commission presenting recycling targets for EU countries but have called for higher bars in waste recycling, reducing food waste, and landfill.
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EU Advances Measures on Terrorism, Firearms
December 16, 2015
The European Commission has announced a package of measures that expand criminal sanctions on terrorism-related conduct, such as terrorist training and traveling abroad for terrorist purposes, and that seek to coordinate efforts toward firearms control, including information exchanges among countries on firearms and strengthened border controls.
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FRA Develops Rights Training for EU Border Patrol
December 16, 2015
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has announced that it recently organized a meeting with the European Asylum Support Office to develop a "training module" for EU asylum officers and border guards on "fundamental rights and international protection."
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EU Drops Case Against Investment Banks
December 16, 2015
The European Commission has announced that it is dropping charges against 13 investment banks following an antitrust investigation into the firms' activities in the market for credit-default swaps that failed to disclose evidence of the Commission's concerns of illegality.
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