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EU Investigates Alleged Tax Breaks for McDonald's
December 07, 2015
POLITICO reports that as the European Commission opens an investigation of a ruling in Luxembourg that allegedly exempted a McDonald's subsidiary from paying taxes, activists argue that this and other rulings highlight a need for "a fundamental review of the tax system" in the European Union.
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UK Considers Including Judicial Review in HRA Reform
December 07, 2015
The UK Government has announced that it is delaying plans to replace its Human Rights Act ("HRA") with a British Bill of Rights, and thus to weaken the link between British courts and the European Court of Human Rights, as it considers replacing review by the Strasbourg court with constitutional review by a domestic supreme or constitutional court.
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ECtHR Finds Inspection of Bank Statements Violated Rights
December 07, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") held that a Portuguese prosecutor's consultation of a lawyer's bank statements during an investigation for tax fraud violated the lawyer's right to respect for private life under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Greece Receives Threats of Schengen Suspension
December 04, 2015
The BBC reports that government officials have informally threatened Greece with a suspension of its membership in the passport-free European travel area the Schengen Zone in response to the country's alleged failure to adequately deal with an influx of migrants.
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CoE Criticizes Hungarian Response to Migrants
December 04, 2015
Council of Europe ("CoE") Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks has said that the response of Hungary to the influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa "falls short" based on the government's criminalization of undocumented migration and return of many of the migrants to Serbia.
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