European Institutions

ECtHR Finds Immigration Law Violates Rights of Same-sex Couples

February 24, 2016

The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has concluded that a Croatian immigration law that excludes same-sex couples from using a family reunification provision to gain entry for a member of the couple into the country discriminated against such a couple in the exercise of its members' right to respect for private and family life.
ECtHR: Italy's Participation in Rendition Violated Suspect's Rights

February 24, 2016

The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has held that Italy's involvement in the abduction and rendition to Egypt of a terror suspect by US officials, and its subsequent lack of action to bring to justice the officials carrying out the operation, violated several of the suspect's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Article: UK Deal May Portend "Two-speed" Europe

February 24, 2016

Matthew Karnitschnig writes in Politico that, by granting special, separate status to a member state, the EU deal to keep Britain inside the bloc could encourage calls from other countries to slow or halt their integration into the system and create two categories of countries within the EU - those that are signed up to "ever closer union" and those that have set up limits to the concept.
Johnson: Britain Should "Seek a New Relationship" with EU

February 24, 2016

London Mayor Boris Johnson writes that he supports the campaign for the UK to leave the EU in order to form "a new relationship" with the bloc under which the country can pull back from most of the EU's "supranational elements" and reassert its sovereignty.
Gove: UK Must Regain Control from EU

February 24, 2016

UK Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove explains why he is supporting the campaign for Britain to leave the EU in a referendum in June, arguing that his country must take back control over its law and policy from institutions that are "rooted in the past."