European Institutions

  • Official Advises ECJ to Overturn German Refugee Restriction

    October 09, 2015

    Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ") Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón has advised the ECJ to strike down a German rule requiring refugees in receipt of social security benefits to take up residence in a particular location in the country.

  • CoE Assembly Calls for Reduction of Income Inequality

    October 08, 2015

    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ("CoE"), whose mission is to uphold "human rights, democracy and the rule of law" in Europe, has called for countries to do more, including through easing collective bargaining and raising the minimum wage, to decrease income inequality among their citizens.

  • Newspapers Seek EU-Mandated Payments from Google

    October 08, 2015

    Politico reports that European newspaper companies are lobbying the EU to reform its copyright regime to require Google to compensate newspapers when its search engine reproduces snippets of their articles.

  • 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.

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