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German Church Faces Employment Lawsuits After ECJ Ruling
May 24, 2018
The Catholic Herald reports that the German Catholic Church is reviewing its employment policies for conflicts with EU anti-discrimination laws after the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) placed limits on the ways in which churches can use religious affiliation as an employment qualification and subjected such employment decisions to judicial review.
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Barnier Rejects UK Solutions on Irish Border
May 24, 2018
The Guardian reports that the European Commission's top Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier recently rejected two proposals from the UK aimed at preventing cumbersome customs checks along the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, claiming the EU would not accept British "cherry picking" in maintaining some commitments to EU rules while eschewing others.
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Committee Seeks More "Political Ambition" in EU Budget
May 23, 2018
The European Economic and Social Committee recently hosted a meeting at which its leaders criticized the European Commission's proposal for a post-2020 EU budget as lacking "political ambition," calling for a budget increase despite Brexit and pushing for "greater conditionality" for access to EU funding.
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Facebook Limits Exposure to EU Data Rules
May 23, 2018
The Irish Times reports that, due to the tight restrictions on the collection and use of data under the EU's new data-protection law, social-media giant Facebook has decided that users outside Europe will no longer be governed by its European terms of service, as the company seeks to limit the number of global complaints to which it would be subject in the EU under the new rules.
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NGO Pushes for EU Financial Support Through "Values Instrument"
May 23, 2018
Jan Jakub Chromiec and Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz of the Polish nongovernmental organization the Stefan Batory Foundation write that the proposal by multiple EU institutions of a "European Values Instrument" needs to include substantial financial support for favored NGOs within the EU to help "renew the Union as a values-based community."
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