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Daily Mail: European Commission Threatens to Block Britain's Reform of Human Rights Act
December 22, 2021
As concerns rise over Britain's judicial ‘sovereign independence' the United Kingdom has presented reforms that would allow British rulings to take precedence over those of the European Court of Human Rights causing a rebuff from Brussels who threatened to no longer cooperate on crime should the reforms pass.
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EU Plans to Tax its Way out of €800 Billion Recovery Debt
December 21, 2021
As the European Union faces paying for the debt accrued by the €800 billion pandemic recovery fund, instead of cutting back on existing EU programs, politicians are looking to increased taxation with a package called “own resources,” to be adopted on December 22, that will include revenues from a levy on the world’s 100 biggest companies, the EU’s planned carbon border tax, and from a proposed extension of the bloc’s cap-and-trade carbon market.
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UK Government Reveals Reform Proposals to the Human Rights Act
December 15, 2021
The UK government has launched reforms to the Human Rights Act that will remain within the European Convention on Human Rights while insisting on the primacy of the British justice system instead of looking to the European Court of Human Rights, based in Strasbourg.
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Hungary's Top Court Avoids Ruling on Primacy of EU law
December 15, 2021
While avoiding ruling on primacy of European Union law, Hungary's Constitutional Court authorizes government action in absence of adequate EU rules.
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Recalling the Vatican’s 2019 Document on Gender Theory in Education
December 10, 2021
The Vatican’s 2019 document on gender theory in education relates to Venice Commission scrutiny of Hungary’s laws protecting children from gender identification indoctrination
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