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Poland Considers Challenge to EU Rule of Law Procedure
June 08, 2016
Reuters reports that the leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party in Poland has threatened legal action in the Court of Justice of the EU against the "made-up" procedure the European Commission has launched on Poland's constitutional court standoff under its EU Rule of Law Framework.
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Tusk Warns of Backlash to EU Federalism
June 07, 2016
In a speech in Luxembourg, President of the Council of the EU Donald Tusk warned that some leaders of the EU and member countries had become "obsessed with the idea of instant and total integration" and called for them instead, for now, to solve present-day problems and respect national sovereignty to counter euroskeptic backlash.
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ECtHR: Russian "Insult" Sanction Violated Speech Rights
June 07, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has held that a criminal fine of a Russian newspaper editor for publishing an article complaining of corruption on the part of a mayor violated the editor's right to freedom of expression, as the Russian courts failed to weigh this freedom against the mayor's "right to respect for reputation."
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Britain Pays Millions Toward Defunct Security Coalition
June 07, 2016
The BBC reports that the British Government has paid in the past five years £5.5 million toward "residual pension obligations" relating to the Western European Union, a security cooperation organization founded in 1948, eclipsed in subsequent years by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and absorbed into the EU in 2000.
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MEPs Seek Extension of EU Criminal Record Exchange
June 06, 2016
Members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee have backed a European Commission proposal to extend the EU's European Criminal Records Information System, under which EU countries exchange criminal records information on their nationals, to the criminal records of non-EU nationals.
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