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Official: Hungary Vote Targets "Stealth" EU Policies
September 21, 2016
According to an article by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács has asserted that Hungary's upcoming referendum on whether to permit the EU to resettle migrants in Hungary is targeted at rolling back the EU's "stealth mode of decision-making, law-making and regulation."
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British MP: ECHR Must Not Apply to the Battlefield
September 21, 2016
UK Member of Parliament Tom Tugendhat writes that the increasing number of lawsuits brought under the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights against British soldiers for their conduct in combat operations signals the invalid creep of ECHR principles from civilian scenarios to complex battlefield situations.
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ECtHR: Russia Violated Travel Rights of Convicted Criminals
September 20, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has concluded that Russia violated the travel rights of two convicted criminals serving periods of probation for smuggling and extortion by denying their requests for passports during these periods without considering the circumstances of their individual cases.
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Moody's: UK Banks Will Survive Loss of EU "Passports"
September 20, 2016
Moody's Investors Service has published research predicting relatively little change in UK banks' ability to operate in EU countries following Britain's exit from the bloc and asserting that the loss of these banks' "passporting" rights, permitting them to operate throughout the EU, will have only a "modest" effect on financial activity.
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Visegrad Officials Threaten Brexit Veto over Free Movement
September 20, 2016
Bloomberg reports that officials from the Visegrad group of countries - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary - have warned that they will veto any post-Brexit deal between the EU and Britain if it grants the UK access to the EU's "single market" without permitting unfettered free movement between Britain and the bloc.
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