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EU Leaders Agree to Create Common Eurozone Budget
January 03, 2019
The Associated Press reports that national EU leaders have agreed to set aside EU funds to establish a common eurozone budget to support eurozone members in the event of financial crises.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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