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FRA Trains EU Border Agency on Rights
September 07, 2016
In partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has launched the second phase of its training of the EU border entity, Frontex, consisting of specialized training on how to avoid human rights violations while managing the protection of the bloc's external borders.
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ECtHR: Prison Failed to Adequately Treat Heroin Addict
September 07, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that the German government failed to meet its burden of proof in showing that it adequately consulted medical professionals when declining to provide methadone treatment to a prisoner addicted to heroin and therefore violated his right against torture.
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Tyrie: EU's "Four Freedoms" Are Not Inviolable
September 02, 2016
British Member of Parliament Andrew Tyrie has published a paper discussing post-Brexit options for the UK and asserting that EU leaders need a "reality check" in acknowledging that the bloc's so-called "four freedoms" - of goods, services, people, and capital - "are not inviolable and inextricably interdependent."
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Britain Seeks to Maintain EU Market Access
September 02, 2016
UK Brexit Minister David Davis has stated that the UK Government's goal in negotiations over the UK's departure from the EU is to retain tariff-free access to the bloc's single market while regaining authority to control migration from other EU member states.
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Banks Call for Interim Deal on "Passporting" in EU
September 02, 2016
Bloomberg reports that representatives of international banks are calling on UK Prime Minister Theresa May to negotiate an interim agreement with the EU to preserve their "passporting" rights to offer services in other EU countries as they seek to prevent a cut-off of their continental operations during a drawn-out Brexit negotiation process.
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