European Institutions

ECtHR: Russian Removal of Syrian Would Violate Rights

February 23, 2017

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Russia's removal of a Syrian national to his home country would violate his right to life and that its continued detention of the man for overstaying his visa violates his right to liberty, calling for the country to immediately release the man from detention.
MEPs Vote for EU Centralization Measures

February 22, 2017

Doubling down on the idea of forming "a more perfect Union" in Europe in the face of Brexit and rising nationalism, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have passed a set of resolutions calling for more muscular EU centralization policies, including through the creation of an EU finance minister and a common eurozone budget.
UK Peer: House of Lords Risks Legitimacy on Brexit

February 21, 2017

The Daily Mail reports that, following the UK House of Commons' passage of a bill authorizing Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger negotiations over the country's exit from the EU, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont warned that the House of Lords would risk its "survival" as an unelected body if it amended the bill to place conditions on Brexit.
Polish Leader Criticizes "Two-Speed" EU Approach

February 21, 2017

Head of the ruling Polish Law and Justice Party Jarosław Kaczyński has warned that the model of "two-speed" European integration recently suggested by several EU leaders, under which the federalization of Europe would take place more gradually in some member states than in others, would lead to the bloc's "breakdown."
ECtHR: German Inheritance Law Violates Rights

February 21, 2017

The European Court of Human Rights has held that a German law prohibiting a woman from administering her deceased father's estate because she was born out of wedlock before a statutory cut-off point of 1949 had violated the woman's rights against discrimination and to respect for her private and family life.