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EU Moves to Criminalize Sanctions Evasion
May 25, 2022
Politico reports that the European Commission has made a move to criminalize sanctions evasion at the European Union (EU) level in order to provide legal grounds for the confiscation of Russian oligarchs’ assets seized by EU countries.
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Politico: Orbán Declares State of Emergency Due to War in Ukraine
May 25, 2022
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared a state of Emergency to enable a rapid response to challenges created by the war in Ukraine in an effort, according to the Prime Minister, to protect Hungary and Hungarian families by all possible means possible.
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Lafarge to be Charged for Human Rights Violations
May 23, 2022
The Paris Appeals Court will allow Lafarge, one of France’s biggest companies, to be charged with aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
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Macron appoints Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne as his Prime Minister
May 18, 2022
Following the resignation of French prime minister Jean Castex, President Emmanuel Macron has chosen Elisabeth Borne, a left-leaning technocrat, to lead his new government and will be in charge of steering through Macron’s controversial pension reform.
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Tettenborn: In Defense of the British Bill of Rights
May 18, 2022
Andrew Tettenborn writing in The Spectator argues that critics are wrong to attack Dominic Raab’s plan revealed during the Queen’s Speech to make adjustments to the Human Rights Act by replacing it with a British Bill of Rights, keeping Britain in the European Convention on Human Rights concerning International matters but will emphasize British law on domestic issues.
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