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EU Parliament Calls for Entry Barriers for Americans
March 16, 2017
The European Parliament has adopted a non-binding resolution calling on the European Commission to respond to US visa requirements on nationals traveling from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland, and Romania by imposing visa requirements on Americans and threatening to take the Commission to court if it fails to act.
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UK Peers Find No Obligation to Pay EU Settlement
March 16, 2017
According to The Guardian, EU officials are responding to a report from the UK House of Lords' EU financial affairs subcommittee asserting that Britain has no international legal obligation to pay any settlement of its commitments to the EU after Brexit by threatening that the UK will not obtain an EU trade deal if it does not "honour all financial obligations falling due."
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Hannan Highlights UK-EU Legal Incompatibility
March 16, 2017
British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan explains how the European Parliament's vote to lift French politician Marine le Pen's immunity against prosecution by French authorities for tweeting photos of violent acts by the Islamic State shows the "fundamental incompatibility" of Continental legal systems to the common law of the UK.
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UK Parliament Authorizes Brexit Notification
March 15, 2017
The Washington Post reports that the UK Parliament has approved a bill granting Prime Minister Theresa May the authority to notify the EU that the country intends to exit the bloc and to trigger Brexit negotiations after rejecting amendments on the rights of EU migrants and parliamentary approval of the terms of exit.
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ECtHR Suspends Georgian Court's Media Decision
March 15, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded the suspension of a judgment of the Georgian Supreme Court permitting a change in ownership of a television station until the ECtHR has an opportunity to hear a case on whether the change would violate European human rights provisions on freedom of expression.
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