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UK Pledges to Shield Soldiers from ECHR Claims
October 13, 2016
The UK Government has announced that, in future conflicts involving the British military, the country will derogate from the European Convention on Human Rights in order to discourage "vexatious" human rights litigation against soldiers engaged in military operations.
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ECtHR: Hungarian Life-Sentence Review Plan Violates Rights
October 13, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that Hungarian legislation mandating automatic review of life sentences for criminals after 40 years, adopted in response to a previous ECtHR decision finding life sentences without the possibility of review a violation of human rights, still constitutes "inhuman or degrading treatment" under European human rights law.
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Hungarian Officials Seek to Leverage Migrant Referendum Result
October 13, 2016
The Hungarian Government has characterized the result of its national referendum on the EU's authority to resettle migrants, in which 98 percent of participants opposed EU resettlement but voter turnout fell short of the threshold needed to be valid, as a "sweeping victory" and pledged to use the outcome to renegotiate EU resettlement policy.
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EU Launches Common Border, Coast Guard Forces
October 12, 2016
As the EU recently launched a common Border and Coast Guard force to deal with the bloc's migration crisis, European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos celebrated that "from now onward, the external EU border of one member state is the external border of all member states – both legally and operationally."
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British PM Sets Timeline for Brexit Trigger
October 12, 2016
In a recent speech, UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she would begin the process of making Britain a "fully independent, sovereign country" by notifying the EU by the end of March 2017 that the UK would be exiting the bloc and by repealing the 1972 Act that effectively enmeshes EU legislation and regulations with British law.
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