European Institutions

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.
Varoufakis: Harsh EU Bailout Terms Continue to Harm Greece

November 29, 2018

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis writes that his country remains in a “debtor’s prison” due to continued public-spending limits imposed by the EU as a condition of bailing out the Greek central bank following the financial crisis of 2009.
Paper Criticizes UK Deal on Post-Brexit ECJ Control

November 28, 2018

In a new paper, UK barrister Dr. Gunnar Beck examines why the “activist and integrationist” approach the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has taken toward interpreting EU law heightens the risks involved in the UK’s decision, as spelled out in its draft Brexit deal with the EU, to submit to ECJ supervision of the agreement.