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Polish PM’s EU Reform Plan Focuses on National Sovereignty
May 01, 2019
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has published a five-point plan for EU reform that includes bloc-wide innovation and inequality strategies, combating protectionism, defense of borders, and handing great policymaking power to national parliaments.
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EU Council Calls for “Mainstreaming” SDGs
May 01, 2019
In recent conclusions it adopted on the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Council of the EU calls the SDGs “an overarching priority of the EU” and pushes the European Commission “to mainstream the SDGs into all relevant internal and external EU policies.”
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ECJ Adviser Seeks Dismissal of Challenge to EU Firearms Law
May 01, 2019
Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston has advised the ECJ to dismiss the Czech Republic’s challenge of EU restrictions on the acquisition and possession of certain firearms because these EU regulations were valid under EU powers to maintain the free movement of goods.
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CoE Agent: States Must Separate Migration Control, Integration Policies
May 01, 2019
According to a paper by the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) on migration and refugees Tomáš Boček, European human rights standards demand that governments refrain from pursuing goals on controlling migration numbers in their migrant integration policies.
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CoE Delegates Call for “Reaction Procedure” to Enforce Standards
April 30, 2019
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) has approved a resolution calling for a “joint reaction procedure” in which CoE bodies and the organization’s Secretary General would employ a “special monitoring” mechanism to pressure CoE member states to halt alleged violations of their statutory obligations or of CoE values.