European Institutions

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • EU Ministers Support Protection of Non-Euro Countries

    September 15, 2015

    At a recent meeting in Luxembourg, finance ministers from EU member countries agreed to the principle of granting a greater voice for non-eurozone countries in decisions made by an increasingly integrated eurozone that have ramifications across the EU.

  • EU Official Calls for Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty

    September 15, 2015

    Klaus Regling, head of the European Stability Mechanism, has called for EU member states to give up sovereignty in the realm of monetary policy by contributing to the creation of a eurozone finance ministry and parliament.

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