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ECtHR Intervenes over Polish Tribunal
May 10, 2021
AP reports that in what some regard as a controversial move, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said that Poland’s top court violated a local company’s right to fair trial due to an irregularly appointed judge.
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French Politician Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Hate Speech Trial
May 05, 2021
A court in the Paris suburb of Nanterre found that former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen did not break hate speech laws by publishing gruesome images of Islamist atrocities on Twitter to prove the comparison of her party, National Rally, to IS, was absurd.
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Top German Court Rules Climate Law Partly ‘Unconstitutional’
May 04, 2021
Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled that the country’s 2019 climate protection law, which sets out to cut emissions to net-zero by 2050, was partly “unconstitutional” citing that “sufficient measures for further emission reductions after 2031 are missing,” putting an improper burden on future generations after 2030.
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Visegrad Group supports Territorial Integrity of Eastern Partnership Countries
May 04, 2021
The Visegrad Group countries reaffirmed their support for the territorial integrity within their internationally recognized borders of the Eastern Partnership countries at a meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group (V4) and Eastern Partnership (EaP).
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Politico: How will the EU Repay the Recovery Fund?
May 04, 2021
Following the €750 billion recovery fund EU leaders passed last July, discussions of repayment were limited, until recently, as the European Commission readies a proposal to raise at least three new levies at the EU level, including a digital tax, to repay the hundreds of billions over the next three decades.
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