European Institutions

ECtHR: Surveillance Violated Supermarket Employees' Rights

January 10, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the secret filming of supermarket employees after the store manager had noticed differences between stock levels and the amount sold was a violation of the employees' right to privacy, disagreeing with the decision of Spanish courts on the proportionality of the move to implement private surveillance.
ECtHR Sides with NGO on Basis of "Racism" Accusation

January 10, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the Swiss government violated the right to free expression by penalizing a nongovernmental organization for classifying as "verbal racism" a politician's support of a Swiss minaret ban after reviewing statements from various international bodies classifying the minaret ban as "discriminatory, xenophobic or racist."
ECtHR Halts Sweden's Expulsion of Suspected Terror Coordinator

January 10, 2018

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that the Swedish government would violate the right of a Moroccan national against torture by deporting him to Morocco after the Swedish Security Service designated him a terror threat.
British MEPs Seek to Stay in EU Market, Customs Union

January 10, 2018

The Guardian reports that a letter from 20 British Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) calls on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to keep Britain in the EU's internal market and customs union, despite warnings from some politicians and lawyers that such a move would subject the UK to EU rules without permitting the country a say in making them.
US Official Calls for UK Rejection of EU Food Standards

January 10, 2018

Bloomberg reports that, in a recent interview, US Department of Agriculture trade official Ted McKinney stated that a US-UK trade deal is far more likely after Brexit if Britain rejects EU food and environmental safety standards with which the country currently must comply.