European Institutions

EU Begins Enforcing Rules Against Tax Avoidance

January 02, 2019

In a recent press release, the European Commission highlighted EU rules that entered into force this week discouraging “aggressive tax planning” through measures including a requirement that EU members tax corporate profits shifted to certain offshore jurisdictions.
Expert Offers Alternative to Brexit Deal on Irish Border

December 26, 2018

Shanker Singham of the Institute of Economic Affairs offers an alternative to the current “backstop” agreed by the British government and the EU on the Irish border, replacing rules requiring perpetual adherence of the UK to EU trade rules with a “front stop” aimed at securing a long-term free trade agreement on goods and agri-food.
Poland Accedes to ECJ Order on Judicial Retirement Law

December 19, 2018

EurActiv reports that, this week, the Polish government complied with an order from the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) demanding the suspension of a law lowering the retirement age of the country’s Supreme Court judges pending a final ECJ decision on the law in 2019.
ECtHR: Lithuania Violated Rights of Family Applying for Asylum

December 19, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Lithuanian authorities violated the rights against torture and to an effective remedy of seven members of a Russian family by denying them the ability to make an asylum application at the country’s border with Belarus.
ECtHR: Prosecutor’s Dismissal for Media Statement Violated Rights

December 19, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the Romanian government violated the right to free expression of a prosecutor it dismissed for talking to the press about an ongoing criminal investigation.