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CoE Anti-Torture Body Critiques Northern Ireland’s Prisons
December 18, 2018
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture has called for Northern Ireland to make “further progress” in complying with CoE rules against ill-treatment in prisons, including by ramping up the use of alternatives to custody and giving prisoners more time outside their cells.
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EU Agency Calls for Embedding Rights Agenda in Border Guard
December 18, 2018
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has issued an opinion calling for a revision in the regulation governing the new European Border and Coast Guard Agency to strengthen fundamental rights observance, including by performing impact assessments when working with external countries, to mainstream the European rights agenda at the agency.
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ECJ Rules UK Can Cancel Brexit Process
December 18, 2018
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has held that the UK can “revoke unilaterally” the notification of its intent to leave the EU prior to the end of the two-year withdrawal process.
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Manifesto Seeks New Assembly to Solve Europe’s Crises
December 18, 2018
A group of European economists, historians, and former politicians led by economist Thomas Piketty has published a “manifesto for the democratisation of Europe” calling for the establishment of a new “European assembly” that would direct funds drawn from higher taxes on companies and the wealthy toward progressive causes.
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Author Points to Flaws in Call for EU Army
December 17, 2018
Author Richard Reinsch writes that French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for the establishment of a European army ignores that the basis of an effective military lies in the ability of a citizenry “to muster courage and resilience” on the foundation “of a shared membership of a national people,” which the supranational EU lacks.
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