European Institutions

  • Politico: EU Refugee Strategy Is "Flatlining"

    January 22, 2016

    Politico reports that leaders of EU institutions and member states, including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, are seeking alternatives to a refugee allocation deal the bloc approved in mid-2015 and that has so far only relocated 331 out of its target 160,000 refugees in the bloc.

  • Report Counters Claim of EU Trade Advantage

    January 22, 2016

    As debate continues in the UK over whether the people of the country should vote to leave the EU in an upcoming referendum, a new report from UK think tank Civitas seeks to refute the argument that Britain receives an advantage in negotiating trade deals with other countries through its EU membership.

  • Tribunal Orders UK to Process Syrians' Asylum Claims

    January 21, 2016

    After hearing arguments regarding the harsh conditions of a Calais migrant camp and the fact that a European regulation on the protocol for registering and accepting refugees is "broken," the British Immigration and Asylum Tribunal has ordered that four Syrian migrants immediately be brought to the UK and that the country's Home Office process their claims.

  • EU Orders Belgium to Recover "State Aid" from Steel Companies

    January 21, 2016

    Finding that the Walloon Government in southern Belgium gave public aid to steel companies in financial difficulties in violation of EU state aid rules, the European Commission has ordered the Belgian Government to recover €211 million of this aid from these steel companies.

  • UK Court: Detention of Reporter Violated ECHR

    January 20, 2016

    The Court of Appeals of England and Wales has held that the application of a UK law to provide for the detention and questioning of a reporter holding information from Edward Snowden by UK law enforcement officers violated a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") relating to freedom of the press.

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