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EU Commissioner Stresses Corporate Tax Proposals
January 20, 2016
In a recent session with European Parliament committees, European Commissioner for tax Pierre Moscovici said that 2016 would be a year of ambitious EU tax proposals that will seek to increase corporate taxes paid to EU member states and make payments to each country more transparent.
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UK Official Suggests Alternative EU Migration Reforms
January 20, 2016
Arguing in recent remarks that Britain "has passed the high-water mark of EU intervention in our national life," UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond suggested alternatives to deterring immigration from other EU countries through a restriction on in-work benefits could be an "emergency brake" on migration or redefining what constitutes a "worker" in the EU.
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Head of EU Council Disagrees on EU Investigation of Poland
January 20, 2016
Politico reports that, despite his desire for the Polish Government to repeal laws affecting the country's Constitutional Court and the heads of public media entities, European Council President and former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said he is not "enthusiastic" about an EU investigation of Poland using the bloc's Rule of Law Mechanism.
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Observer: EU Oversteps with Rule-of-Law Inquiry on Poland
January 19, 2016
Pawel Lisicki writes in The Guardian that the European Commission's announcement of an investigation of Polish laws that changed the operation of the country's Constitutional Court and amended the process of appointing public media officials for systemic rule-of-law violations will provoke an anti-EU backlash among the Polish people.
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Austria Suspends Schengen Border Agreement
January 19, 2016
The Austrian Government recently joined Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in "temporarily suspending" its adherence to the Schengen passport-free travel agreement and instituting identity checks on its borders with other EU countries amid a massive wave of migration in the bloc from North Africa and the Middle East.
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