European Institutions

Article: To Survive, EU Must Nurture Shared Identity

November 30, 2018

An article in The Economist asserts that the only way for European leaders to keep the EU afloat in the long-term is to “nurture a clearer European identity” and show clear benefits of the European project that outweigh the complexity of EU institutions and problematic policies they impose on member states.
UK Lawmaker Warns of Entanglement in EU Defense Policy

November 30, 2018

British Member of Parliament Andrea Jenkyns explains that the UK’s involvement in EU defense structures following Brexit comes at the cost of required alignment with EU defense policy and application of EU rules, potentially hastening the UK’s integration into the EU in the realm of defense.
Hungarian, Italian Leaders Launch Platform Against Illegal Migration

November 29, 2018

EurActiv reports that talks between Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán and the Interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini resulted in the launch of a political manifesto in the lead-up to the 2019 European Parliament elections calling for stronger EU policies on illegal migration.
ECtHR: Anti-Police Blog Post Deserved Protection as Free Speech

November 29, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights recently held that Russia violated the right to freedom of expression of a man it had convicted of “incitement to hatred” for a blog post in which he insulted police officers and called for the extermination of “infidel cops.”
ECtHR Defines State Duty to Interpret Trial Proceedings

November 29, 2018

In August, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Slovenia violated the right to a fair trial of a native Lithuanian by providing him an interpretation of the proceedings of his robbery trial in Russian, which he did not understand.