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EU Committee Approves Strengthened Asylum Entity
December 30, 2016
The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee has approved a proposal to further centralize EU refugee rules by creating an EU Agency for Asylum that will monitor the refugee policies and practices of national governments and implement a complaint mechanism headed by a Fundamental Rights Officer.
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EU Court Outlaws Mass Data Retention Policies
December 28, 2016
Reuters reports that the Court of Justice of the EU has held that government rules requiring private companies to retain traffic and location data en masse to assist with law enforcement and counter-terrorism investigations violate EU privacy laws.
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Apple Challenges EU Tax Demand in Court
December 21, 2016
In an appeal to the General Court of the EU over the European Commission's demand that Apple pay €13 billion in back taxes to the government of Ireland, the tech company and the Irish government asserted that the Commission had failed to act impartially and had violated "member state sovereignty in the area of direct taxation."
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EU Takes France to Court over Bird Protection
December 21, 2016
The European Commission has filed a complaint against France in the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to adequately enforce an EU directive prohibiting the killing or capture of certain wild birds.
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EU Agency Seeks Rights-Based Revision of Migration Rules
December 21, 2016
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has issued two opinions requested by the European Parliament on including a human rights-based approach to the process of revising EU regulations on where migrants from non-EU countries should be settled.
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