European Institutions

  • EU Revives Migrant Distribution Plan

    September 14, 2015

    In his annual State of the European Union address, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker proposed a plan to redistribute 160,000 migrants, most of whom are from North Africa and the Middle East, throughout countries in the EU.

  • NGO: EU Treaty Change Should Empower Non-Euro Countries

    September 14, 2015

    The think tank Open Europe has published a report pushing for reforms to EU treaties that would safeguard the rights of non-eurozone EU member states by not requiring them to join the single currency, granting them more voting power to overturn EU proposals, and by permitting them to appeal proposals from eurozone countries.

  • EU Seeks Self-Promotion Funds

    September 09, 2015

    POLITICO reports that the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is pushing to budget 26 million euros in funding for a publicity campaign that would promote the EU and its priorities in 2016.

  • Governments Warn of Negative Effects of EU Securities Rules

    September 03, 2015

    The finance ministries of the UK, Germany, and France have warned that new transparency rules on securities and investment research from the European Securities and Markets Authority could be too broad and "overly prescriptive" and thus harm securities trading in the bloc.

  • ECtHR: Italy's Detention of Migrants Violated Human Rights

    September 02, 2015

    The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has ruled that the Italian government violated the rights of a group of Tunisian migrants, during an influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East, by holding them in what the ECtHR considered to be "degrading" conditions on the island of Lampedusa pending their expulsion.

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