European Institutions

  • MEPs Warn Against UK Registration Requirements

    October 25, 2017

    The Guardian reports that, as part of their objection to any Brexit "transition" period in which the UK would no longer be subject to all EU laws, a cross-party group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) has warned Britain against any requirement that EU citizens register with the British Government after Brexit.

  • EC Pushes Broad Plan on Migration, Asylum

    October 25, 2017

    The European Commission (EC) recently announced the "next steps" in its overarching plan to develop "a stronger, fairer and more effective EU migration and asylum policy," including a new resettlement plan for 50,000 asylum seekers and expanded pressure on EU member states to streamline their migrant return policies.

  • CoE Official Seeks Revision of Russian Laws on Public Events

    October 25, 2017

    The Council of Europe's (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has published a memorandum calling for the "thorough revision" of Russian laws he says interfere with the freedom of assembly to take into account international human rights standards.

  • CoE Pushes Countries to End Child Migrant Detention

    October 20, 2017

    As the Council of Europe (CoE) seeks to pressure countries to adopt its Action Plan in Protecting Migrant and Refugee Children, the regional organization hosted a conference in Prague pushing governments to end the detention of migrant children and to search for alternatives to the practice.

  • ECtHR: Spanish "Collective Expulsion" Violated Rights

    October 20, 2017

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Spain violated the rights of two people attempting to enter its territory by "expelling" them - even if, as Spain argued, the migrants had not yet entered Spanish territory when they were apprehended - without permitting them any judicial or administrative remedy.

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