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EU Plans Centralized Oversight of Vehicle Checks
January 08, 2018
The EU institutions have agreed to proposals for the European Commission to take control of some approval and testing requirements for vehicles in EU member states and to initiate EU-wide recalls and impose administrative penalties for vehicles that do not comply with EU standards.
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ECJ Finds Limitation in Right to Expel Convicted Criminals
January 08, 2018
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) held in a December decision that EU member states cannot expel a long-term resident who is a national of a country that is not an EU member on the sole basis that the resident has been sentenced to over a year of imprisonment.
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CoE Issues Negative Findings on Polish, Ukrainian Reforms
January 08, 2018
In December, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Commission for Democracy through Law adopted a series of opinions concluding that Polish judicial reforms place "at serious risk" the independence of all Polish courts, that Poland should separate its Public Prosecutor General from its Ministry of Justice, and that Ukraine should ramp up teaching of minority languages.
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ECtHR Receives Case on Azerbaijan's Compliance with Judgment
January 08, 2018
News.am reports that the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers has, for the first time, referred to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a question whether a country has refused to abide by a ECtHR judgment in the case of an imprisoned opposition politician in Azerbaijan.
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EU Members Disagree on Solution to Migration Flows
January 08, 2018
Voice of America reports that, at a recent summit of EU member states, Western EU members complained of the rejection of future migration quotas from members of the Visegrad Group - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - which instead offered funds for EU border security.
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