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Orban Will Keep Immigration Law despite EU Court Ruling
December 22, 2021
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced at a press conference that Hungary won’t change its immigration laws after the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Hungary had “failed to fulfill its obligations” under EU law by passing a 2018 bill preventing people from applying for asylum if they come to Hungary from a country where their life and freedom were not at risk.
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European Commission to Start Legal Action Against Poland Over Rule of Law
December 22, 2021
The European Commission will begin an infringement procedure against Poland for undermining EU law by sending a formal notice, giving Poland two months to reply and fulfill its obligations under EU law.
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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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