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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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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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