European Institutions

EC Calls for Project Ideas for “Solidarity Corps”

August 15, 2018

The European Commission (EC) has called for proposals from interested parties for projects to be completed by its European Solidarity Corps, an EU initiative with €44 million in funding for “solidarity activities” aiming to promote the idea of European integration among at least 100,000 young people across the bloc by the year 2020.
CoE Body Criticizes Switzerland over Political Funding

August 15, 2018

In a recent report, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Group of States against Corruption has expressed its “regret” that the Swiss federal government has declined to implement the CoE body’s recommendations on increasing the transparency of party and election campaign funding in the country.
UK Report Finds Widespread Rights Abuses in EAW Countries

August 15, 2018

An analysis published by UK campaign group Due Process finds that, given the major problems in countries within the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system regarding violations of the rights to a fair trial and against torture, the UK must require a broad reform of the EAW prior to agreeing to remain in the system after Brexit.
ECJ Adviser: Courts Cannot Reject UK Arrest Warrants Before Brexit

August 08, 2018

Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Maciej Szpunar has advised the ECJ to rule that national courts in the EU cannot reject a European Arrest Warrant issued by Britain prior to its withdrawal from the EU, finding that the UK has not decided “to abandon the rule of law or the protection of fundamental rights” after Brexit.
EU Copyright Ruling Restricts Secondary Online Photo Posting

August 08, 2018

The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has held that, under EU copyright law, a school was not permitted to post a photograph from a student presentation to its website without permission for the photographer, even though the photographer had given permission for the use of the image on the travel website from which the student copied the image.