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CoE Body Demands Shift in German Corruption Rules
August 14, 2019
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Group of States Against Corruption has applied a “non-compliance procedure” to Germany over the country’s failure to implement a set of recommendations on preventing corruption with respect to members of the German Federal Parliament.
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Armenian Court Seeks ECtHR Opinion on Criminal Law
August 09, 2019
In the second-ever use of the new procedure, the Constitutional Court of Armenia is seeking an advisory opinion from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the compliance of a national criminal provision prohibiting the overthrow of the constitutional order with European human rights law.
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EU Officials Seek Control over Online “Hate Speech”
August 01, 2019
Eric Sinrod of Duane Morris LLP examines EU draft legislation that would, in part, permit an EU committee to order social-media companies and internet service providers to take down “illegal content” such as “hate speech” from online platforms within an hour of notice from the committee.
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EC Takes Legal Action over Hungarian Migration Laws
August 01, 2019
The European Commission (EC) has referred the Hungarian government to the Court of Justice of the EU for restrictions on asylum requests and has warned that it could take legal action over the country’s decision not to provide food to migrants in transit zones along the Serbian border.
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EU Rights Body Warns of “Tough Line” on Migration
August 01, 2019
In its quarterly report on migration rights, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights expresses concerns about the rights impacts of the “tough line” some EU member states are taking on migrants, including by removing them without prior notice and the criminalization by Italy of sea rescues of migrant ships.
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