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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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ECtHR: Countries Must Recognize Gay Marriages Contracted Abroad
January 08, 2018
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Italy violated the rights of same-sex couples to respect for private and family life by failing "to take account of their social reality" in refusing to recognize marriages they had contracted abroad.
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EU Bodies Battle over Future of Migration Quotas
January 08, 2018
EUobserver reports that the European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos has criticized an assertion by EU Council President Donald Tusk that mandatory EU quotas for migration are unworkable as "unacceptable" and contrary to "one of the main pillars of the European project, the principle of solidarity."
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