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EU Bodies Reach Climate Land Use Agreement
December 20, 2017
The European Council and the European Parliament have reached an agreement to move forward with a proposal to regulate land use in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement and as part of the EU’s Energy Union initiative.
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EU Council: Bank Guidelines Overstep ECB Authority
December 20, 2017
Reuters reports that the Council of the EU, adding its voice to that of the European Parliament, has issued a legal opinion that the European Central Bank (ECB) does not have the authority to issue guidelines it has proposed for banks across the eurozone advising that they set aside additional cash to deal with bad loans.
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ECtHR: Romania Violated Ill Prisoner's Right to Dignity
December 20, 2017
In a November judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that Romanian authorities had failed to take into account proper "humanitarian considerations" by keeping a man with terminal metastatic prostate cancer in prison and had violated European human rights law by preventing the prisoner "from spending his final days in dignity."
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WTO Chief: "No Deal" Brexit Would Be "Manageable"
December 19, 2017
In November remarks in Geneva, the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Roberto Azevedo predicted that a scenario in which the UK failed to reach a deal with the EU on free trade after Brexit and was required to operate under WTO rules in its trade with the bloc was "perfectly manageable."
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Polish Parliament Advances Legislation on Judiciary
December 19, 2017
Reuters reports that, in the body's ongoing battle with the EU over judicial changes, the Polish Parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill giving Parliament more authority over the membership of a panel charged with selecting the country's judges by sending a compromise reform bill authored by the Polish President Andrzej Duda to parliamentary committees.
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