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UK May Face Added Cost in ECJ Expansion
December 15, 2015
The Daily Mail reports that the doubling of the number of judges on the Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ"), which the UK attempted to block as "disproportionate" to the ECJ's needs, may require added funding from Britain over the course of the four-year expansion process.
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ECtHR Finds Rights Violations in Russian Surveillance
December 14, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has decided that the system of secret interception of mobile-telephone communications in Russia violated a Russian national's right to respect for his private life and correspondence and that he did not have any effective remedy in that respect.
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EU Considers Greater Authority on Border Control
December 14, 2015
Reuters reports that EU and national officials are considering new measures that would strengthen the bloc's external border security agency, called Frontex, including a proposal that could permit a majority of EU members to force a country to accept assistance from Frontex in securing that country's borders.
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Denmark Voters Reject EU Criminal Justice Rules
December 14, 2015
In a recent referendum, Danish voters rejected an "opt-in" to a set of EU home affairs and criminal justice measures proposed by the country's government.
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UK Threatens Legal Action on Financial Transaction Levy
December 09, 2015
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has threatened an action in the Court of Justice of the EU as ten other EU countries move forward with the foundations of a plan for a "financial transaction tax" that would seek to recover money used to support banks during the bloc's financial crisis.
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