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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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MEPs Pressure Council on Board Targets for Women
December 16, 2015
Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") have placed pressure on the European Council to explain why it has not yet acted on a proposal passed by Parliament in 2013 to institute a 40% target for the proportion of non-executive directors on company boards who are women.
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MEPs Warn of "Low" EU Recycling Targets
December 16, 2015
A group of Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") have generally praised a proposal from the European Commission presenting recycling targets for EU countries but have called for higher bars in waste recycling, reducing food waste, and landfill.
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