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Pierini: EU Must Have More Counter-terrorism Tools
August 05, 2015
Marc Pierini of Carnegie Europe argues that the most effective way to fight terrorism in Europe is to give the EU the means to adopt and implement counter-terrorism policies that combat new methods of attacks by Islamist extremists.
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Paper: German Minister Seeks Brussels Power Shift
July 31, 2015
Citing anonymous Brussels diplomats, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble wishes to take some powers from the European Commission, such as competition and internal market oversight, and hand them to independent authorities.
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ECB Expresses Concern at Eurozone Divergence
July 30, 2015
In an economic bulletin, the European Central Bank ("ECB") stated that it was "disappointed" with the diverging status of the national economies in the eurozone, a development that defies the expectations of the architects of the euro project.
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Scott: Supremacy of EU Law Is Threat to British Sovereignty
July 29, 2015
Barrister Matthew Scott writes that the supremacy of EU law is a greater threat to British sovereignty than the influence of the European Court of Human Rights, as UK courts are finding ways to expand their powers under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights at the expense of the country's Parliament.
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EU Parliament Agrees to Proposal on Passenger Data Storage
July 29, 2015
The Independent reports that the European Parliament has agreed to a proposal requiring that airlines store passenger data on flights arriving from and departing to locations outside the EU for five years in order to permit the data to remain searchable by European authorities.
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