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London Mayor: Businesses Must Seek Tight UK-EU Links
January 24, 2017
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for businesses operating in Europe to lobby their governments to ensure that the UK retains "privileged" access to the EU's "single market" during negotiations over Britain's departure from the bloc, a deal that would likely require the UK to remain within the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU.
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NGO Criticizes "Shortcomings" in ECtHR Migration Decision
January 23, 2017
Lawyers from the nongovernmental organization Open Society Foundations have criticized a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Grand Chamber for "watering down" human rights law as interpreted by a lower judicial body by permitting the removal of migrants from an Italian island without an individual interview of each migrant.
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Auditors Call for Stronger EU Measures on Food Waste
January 23, 2017
The European Court of Auditors has published a press release calling on the European Commission to strengthen measures aimed at reducing food waste in the EU, including by developing a food waste "action plan" and generating food-saving action throughout "the entire food supply chain."
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EU Committee Seeks Centralized Law on Robotics
January 23, 2017
The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has adopted a report calling on the European Commission to create a "European agency for robotics and artificial intelligence" to provide centralized EU standards on social, environmental, and health impacts of robots and "to ensure that robots are and will remain in the service of humans."
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CoE Official Warns Slovenia on Migration Legislation
January 19, 2017
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has published a letter to the National Assembly of Slovenia warning that legislation currently under consideration in the body that would permit the removal of illegal migrants in the case of threats to the "public order and internal security" violates European human rights law.
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