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EU Advances Measures on Terrorism, Firearms
December 16, 2015
The European Commission has announced a package of measures that expand criminal sanctions on terrorism-related conduct, such as terrorist training and traveling abroad for terrorist purposes, and that seek to coordinate efforts toward firearms control, including information exchanges among countries on firearms and strengthened border controls.
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FRA Develops Rights Training for EU Border Patrol
December 16, 2015
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has announced that it recently organized a meeting with the European Asylum Support Office to develop a "training module" for EU asylum officers and border guards on "fundamental rights and international protection."
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EU Drops Case Against Investment Banks
December 16, 2015
The European Commission has announced that it is dropping charges against 13 investment banks following an antitrust investigation into the firms' activities in the market for credit-default swaps that failed to disclose evidence of the Commission's concerns of illegality.
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Parks: Lack of Collective Purpose Portends EU Demise
December 15, 2015
Professor and author Tim Parks writes that the EU has lost any collective identity and purpose it once had and predicts the end of the union unless the UK renegotiation with the EU imbues the bloc with newfound purpose.
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Russian Proposal Offers "Override" of ECtHR
December 15, 2015
Following a European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") finding that Russian surveillance activities violated an applicant's right to respect for private life, Russian lawmakers have advanced a proposal that offers the country's government the option to override decisions of the ECtHR.
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