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Judge: UK Could Uphold Rights Under Alternative to ECHR
September 22, 2015
In a recent interview, UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption said that the UK's adoption of an alternative approach to the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") - for instance, through a British Bill of Rights - would not undermine human rights protections of British citizens.
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EU Proposes Multinational TTIP Court
September 17, 2015
EurActiv reports that the European Commission has proposed a public, multilateral court to settle investment disputes arising from the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ("TTIP") deal to replace the private investment dispute tribunal favored by Washington.
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Attorney General: UK Considers Departing ECtHR
September 16, 2015
Calling the status quo of Britain's relationship with the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") "not sustainable" due to the Court's controversial rulings, UK Attorney General Jeremy Wright has indicated that the current British government could decide to pull out of the ECtHR.
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ECJ Upholds Denial of Social Assistance to EU Migrants
September 16, 2015
The Court of Justice of the EU has upheld a decision by the German government to cease social security payments to a Swedish national who had previously worked in Germany and had received unemployment benefits since 2011, finding that denying such benefits did not "contravene the principle of equal treatment" of EU migrants.
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Report: Germany Makes EU Army a Condition of UK Renegotiation
September 16, 2015
The Telegraph reports that according to a source in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will ask the UK to withdraw its opposition to the integration of military resources in Europe and to the eventual creation of an EU army in return for favorable terms in Britain's renegotiation of competences with the EU.
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