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EU Considers Visa Retaliation Against US, Canada
April 20, 2016
The European Commission is calling on the European Parliament and Council to develop positions on whether to retaliate against the US and Canada for requiring citizens of certain EU countries to acquire visas when traveling in those countries by exempting visa exemptions for US and Canadian citizens across the bloc.
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MEPs Call for EU Tax "Crackdown"
April 20, 2016
In a recent debate, Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") called on the European Commission to clamp down on "tax and secrecy havens" in light of the revelations from the so-called Panama Papers that European individuals and businesses have been using such havens to store large amounts of wealth.
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EU Pressures Member States on Migrant Relocation Scheme
April 20, 2016
In a review of the EU's progress on the "resettlement" of migrants from Turkey and the "relocation" of migrants who are already in the EU, the European Commission praised the progress of the resettlement program but called on EU member states to do more to provide for the relocation of large numbers of migrants located in Greece and Italy.
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CoE Committee on Torture Seeks Limits to Life Sentences
April 20, 2016
The Council of Europe's ("CoE") Committee for the Prevention of Torture has characterized criminal sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of release as "inhuman" and has called for laws that require governments to review on a "case-by-case basis" whether these prisoners can return to society.
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ECtHR: Strict Detainment Measures Violated Convention
April 19, 2016
A judgment from the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has found that Poland's detainment of a convicted murderer under a "dangerous detainee regime" that required constant monitoring of his cell and strip searches upon his entry and exit violated the European Convention on Human Rights' prohibition of "torture" and "degrading treatment."
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