European Institutions

ECJ Official Disapplies Regular EU Asylum Procedure

August 07, 2017

In a June opinion, an Advocate General for the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) advised that, in the exceptional circumstances of the EU migration crisis, the EU member in which a migrant first filed an asylum application, rather than a country that permitted the migrant to travel across its territory to reach that EU member, is responsible for examining the migrant's asylum request.
EU Parliament Increasingly Judges Domestic Policies

August 07, 2017

Politico reports on the increased frequency of European Parliament debates on the domestic policies of EU member states and their impacts on the rule of law and human rights, leading some members of the body to express concern that it is sitting in judgment as a "politically motivated 'supreme court.'"
UK PM Confirms Steady Course on Brexit

August 04, 2017

Reuters reports that, despite her governing party's loss of seats in the June general election, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has asserted that her strategy toward negotiating Britain's exit from the EU, including leaving the European Economic Area and the EU customs union, has not changed.
ECtHR Rejects Complaint from Dismissed Turkish Civil Servant

August 04, 2017

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has dismissed a complaint from a Turkish civil servant who was fired from his position following the failed coup attempt in the country in 2016 because he failed to exhaust his domestic remedies by filing a complaint before a Turkish commission established to review complaints of wrongful dismissal from the civil service.
EU Introduces Measures to Advance Capital Markets Union

August 04, 2017

In June, the European Commission unveiled plans to further the completion of the EU Capital Markets Union through such measures as a "pan-European personal pension product" and further expansion of the framework for supervising capital markets in the European Securities and Markets Authority.