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Flemish PM Proposes New Union for Post-Brexit UK
August 30, 2016
Prime Minister of Flanders Geert Bourgeois has called for the development of a North Sea Union to maintain robust ties and promote economic cooperation between Britain and other Northern European countries following the UK's exit from the EU.
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EU Intervenes in Greek Debt Statistics Case
August 29, 2016
The European Commission has sent a letter to Greek authorities criticizing the decision by the country's Supreme Court to reopen a case on whether the Greek statistics agency manipulated data on public debt to favor foreign creditors, asserting that the claims are "unfounded."
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Warner: EU Leaders Misinterpret Brexit
August 29, 2016
Commentator Jeremy Warner writes in The Telegraph that EU leaders, including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, are misunderstanding the reasons that British voters chose to leave the EU, arguing that at the heart of the decision was the failure of the euro currency.
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Official Warns of Sovereignty Threat to CoE System
August 29, 2016
The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, has warned that assertions that national sovereignty trumps the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments, which he notes are legally binding, are a threat to the Council of Europe human rights apparatus and to the rule of law in Europe.
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ECtHR: Deporting Iraqi Asylum Seekers Would Violate Rights
August 29, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that, in light of the deteriorating Iraqi security situation, Sweden's deportation of an Iraqi family whom al-Qaeda had threatened and attacked due to the family's business relationships with Americans would violate the family's rights against torture.
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