European Institutions

  • Bromund: US Should Stop Supporting EU

    October 08, 2015

    Ted Bromund of the Heritage Foundation writes that the US should recognize the EU's counterproductive expansion of authority into the lives of Europeans and into areas, such as military and social welfare policies, it was not intended to go, and withdraw its support for the supranational organization.

  • EU Prisoner Vote Ruling May Influence "Brexit" Debate

    October 07, 2015

    The Telegraph reports that a recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU that countries can ban prisoners convicted of "serious crimes" from voting in EU elections gives British prisoners convicted of minor crimes a basis on which to challenge the UK's blanket ban on prisoner voting and thus may strengthen the campaign within the country for EU exit.

  • ECtHR Launches Information Exchange with National Courts

    October 07, 2015

    As the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") seeks ways to institutionalize its case law in national courts, ECtHR President Dean Spielmann has announced the launch of a system that will facilitate the exchange of such information between the ECtHR and national superior courts.

  • ECJ Ruling May Hinder Transatlantic Data Transfers

    October 07, 2015

    The BBC reports that a recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU, finding that the terms of the "Safe Harbor" agreement that governed data transfers between the EU and the US no longer binds national data regulators, will likely complicate and add costs to the work of US technology firms and other companies in Europe.

  • EU Ministers Consider Automatic Sharing of Tax Rulings

    October 05, 2015

    Finance ministers from EU member countries are meeting this week to consider a proposal from the European Commission that would require national governments within the EU to share corporate tax rulings, potentially from up to ten years ago, automatically throughout the bloc.

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