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EU Consults Global Actors on Social Rights
January 26, 2017
The European Commission recently hosted a high-level conference in Brussels seeking input from the global community, including "social partners and civil society," on its plans for a European Pillar of Social Rights that will seek to advance "fairness and social justice in Europe."
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MEPs Call for Centralization of Labor Policy
January 26, 2017
Members of the European Parliament have approved a report calling on the European Commission to include in its plans for a European Pillar of Social Rights "EU-wide rules on decent working conditions to apply to all forms of employment" and the introduction of EU social security cards.
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ECJ: ECB Is Not Liable for Greek Debt Losses
January 26, 2017
Finding that commercial banks cannot rely on "the principle of legal certainty" in the area of monetary policy, the Court of Justice of the EU has dismissed a complaint from financial institutions alleging that their losses from the restructuring of Greek debt violated EU law.
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Dissenting UK Justices Object to Involvement in Brexit
January 25, 2017
The Telegraph reports that the three UK Supreme Court Justices who dissented from the Court's decision this week that the British Government cannot formally notify the EU of its intent to leave without a vote from Parliament asserted that it was up to Parliament, and not the courts, to shape its role in the "political process" involved in Brexit negotiations.
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CoE Chief Consults on EU "Social Rights" Plans
January 25, 2017
In his opinion welcoming the development by EU institutions of a European Pillar of Social Rights, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjørn Jagland calls on EU officials to incorporate within this Pillar the CoE's European Social Charter, which seeks to guarantee nontraditional social and economic "human rights" throughout Europe.
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