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EU Orders Belgium to Recover "State Aid" from Steel Companies
January 21, 2016
Finding that the Walloon Government in southern Belgium gave public aid to steel companies in financial difficulties in violation of EU state aid rules, the European Commission has ordered the Belgian Government to recover €211 million of this aid from these steel companies.
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UK Court: Detention of Reporter Violated ECHR
January 20, 2016
The Court of Appeals of England and Wales has held that the application of a UK law to provide for the detention and questioning of a reporter holding information from Edward Snowden by UK law enforcement officers violated a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") relating to freedom of the press.
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EU Considers Proposed Refugee Rules Changes
January 20, 2016
The Telegraph reports that EU rules changes under consideration by the European Commission that would end the ability of countries to return asylum seekers to their country of original entry into the EU could upend UK Prime Minister David Cameron's negotiations over the return of powers over cross-border flows to national governments.
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Poland Continues Avoidance of Euro
January 20, 2016
Citing its relatively high economic performance during the recent eurozone financial crisis, Polish Finance Minister Pawel Szalamacha has said that his Government is unlikely to deviate from the policy of its predecessors in declining to adopt the euro currency, though it is obligated to do so in the future under the terms of its EU entry agreement.
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MEPs Seek Rules for Corporate Tax Restitution, Liability
January 20, 2016
Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") have adopted a resolution calling for the EU Commission, upon finding that a corporation did not pay sufficient taxes, to require the company to pay back-taxes to the EU member state that "suffered" or to the EU budget, and to impose liability for illegal tax deals on "natural persons" rather than the businesses for which they work.
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