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EU Commissioner Moves to Shut down Tax Avoidance
April 05, 2016
Reuters reports that, in a recent interview following the release of information in the "Panama Papers" on individual and corporate use of "shell companies" in Panama to store their funds, European Commissioner on economics Pierre Moscovici has renewed calls for mandatory financial reporting for companies in the EU to prevent tax avoidance.
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D'Arcy Analyzes "Mechanics" of Brexit
April 05, 2016
Journalist Mark D'Arcy has published a piece predicting what would happen in UK law and politics if the British electorate votes to leave the EU in June 2016, including a renegotiation of Britain's relationship with EU members and the repeal of a substantial amount of legislation that has given force to EU law in the UK.
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EU Presidency Develops European Agenda on Terrorism
April 04, 2016
The Dutch Presidency of the EU Council has issued a press release describing the actions it has taken so far and will take to develop an EU-wide response to terrorism, including establishing a European Counter Terrorism Centre and formulating a Directive on Terrorism that would criminalize certain terrorism-related actions.
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CoE Body Seeks Reforms in French Local Democracy
April 04, 2016
The Council of Europe's ("CoE") Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has adopted a recommendation on French local and regional democracy calling on national authorities in the country to engage in more consultation with local officials on boundary and election issues and to transfer certain powers on taxation to the local level.
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ECtHR Finds No Infringement in "Violation of Secrecy" Case
April 04, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has held that Switzerland complied with the European Convention on Human Rights when the country's courts imposed a criminal fine on a journalist for "violation of secrecy" after he published a news story on a defendant on trial for murder.
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