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Parks: Lack of Collective Purpose Portends EU Demise
December 15, 2015
Professor and author Tim Parks writes that the EU has lost any collective identity and purpose it once had and predicts the end of the union unless the UK renegotiation with the EU imbues the bloc with newfound purpose.
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Russian Proposal Offers "Override" of ECtHR
December 15, 2015
Following a European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") finding that Russian surveillance activities violated an applicant's right to respect for private life, Russian lawmakers have advanced a proposal that offers the country's government the option to override decisions of the ECtHR.
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UK May Face Added Cost in ECJ Expansion
December 15, 2015
The Daily Mail reports that the doubling of the number of judges on the Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ"), which the UK attempted to block as "disproportionate" to the ECJ's needs, may require added funding from Britain over the course of the four-year expansion process.
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ECtHR Finds Rights Violations in Russian Surveillance
December 14, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has decided that the system of secret interception of mobile-telephone communications in Russia violated a Russian national's right to respect for his private life and correspondence and that he did not have any effective remedy in that respect.
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EU Considers Greater Authority on Border Control
December 14, 2015
Reuters reports that EU and national officials are considering new measures that would strengthen the bloc's external border security agency, called Frontex, including a proposal that could permit a majority of EU members to force a country to accept assistance from Frontex in securing that country's borders.