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Italian Minister Calls for Eurozone Finance Ministry
February 12, 2016
Echoing recent calls from other national finance ministers in the EU, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan has called for the EU to respond to the current market turmoil by creating a eurozone finance ministry that would coordinate economic and fiscal policy throughout the monetary bloc.
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Grieve: Legislation Asserting UK Sovereignty Could "Be Pointless"
February 12, 2016
Former UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve has argued that plans to reassert UK sovereignty through legislation, insofar as it conflicted with the supremacy of EU law, would "be pointless" and instead encouraged more dialogue on UK legislation between the British courts and the Court of Justice of the EU.
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"Core" EU National Ministers Recommit to Integration
February 12, 2016
Meeting in Rome, the foreign ministers of the six founding countries of the EU discussed setting up an informal group of "core" states committed to driving forward integration and devoted to "ever closer union" within the bloc.
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OSCE, CoE Promote Human-Rights-First Security Message
February 11, 2016
At a meeting in Strasbourg, the Special Representative for the German Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Gernot Erler and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe ("CoE") Thorbjørn Jagland pledged cooperation between the organizations on security policies that prioritized "human rights and fundamental freedoms."
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Article: Data Objections Highlight EU Policy Limitations
February 11, 2016
An article in The Economist describes how demands from EU officials in their recent data deal with the US demonstrate that the necessarily limited scope of the EU's policy mandate, which does not include intelligence services, constricts the bloc's knowledge of the level of data collection needed to counter terrorist and other threats.
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