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EU Launches Legal Action over Migration
December 16, 2015
The BBC reports that the European Commission has launched infringement cases against Greece, Croatia, and Italy for failing to properly register migrants entering their territories from North Africa and the Middle East, and against Hungary for what the EU considers to be restrictive asylum laws.
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UK Rejects Implementation of ECtHR Prisoner-Voting Judgment
December 16, 2015
The Daily Mail reports that, after the UK Government announced that it will not permit prisoners to vote after a finding from the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") that the British blanket prisoner-voting ban violates human rights, the Council of Europe delayed discussion on the issue until the end of 2016.
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Northern Ireland Judge Finds Abortion Rights in ECHR
December 16, 2015
Despite a contrary precedent from the European Court of Human Rights, Judge Mark Horner of the Northern Ireland High Court has ruled that provisions protecting privacy and family life in the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") requires exceptions in abortion restrictions for children unlikely to survive at birth and those conceived through a sexual crime.
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EU Committee Calls for Common Corporate Tax Base
December 16, 2015
An opinion from local and regional leaders from the EU Committee of the Regions calls for the EU to create a "common consolidated corporate tax base" that would standardize how companies calculate the taxes they owe and seek to prevent "profit-shifting" and corporate tax avoidance in EU jurisdictions.
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Committee Proposes Enhancing EU Counterterrorism Powers
December 16, 2015
Members of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee have offered a set of EU counterterrorism responses to the November attacks in Paris, including the strengthening of law-enforcement cooperation by European governments through the agency Europol and the adoption of a "Passenger Name Record" that would track international airline passengers in the bloc.
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