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UK Study Finds Risks in EU DNA-Request System
November 18, 2015
A study from the UK Home Office expresses concern that if Britain participates in an EU system through which other countries could request DNA and fingerprint information from UK police in order to help solve crimes, it could face a significant number of requests for DNA of British citizens from countries with lower standards for criminal DNA matching.
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EU Seeks to Harmonize Firearm Restrictions
November 18, 2015
In response to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the European Commission has announced that it will seek to tighten restrictions across the EU on the sale of decommissioned firearms, which it suspects were used in this and the Charlie Hebdo massacres.
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ECtHR Upholds French Hate Speech Fine
November 18, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has rejected a complaint from French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala that a fine imposed by a French court for anti-Semitic hate speech violated his right to freedom of expression.
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UK Denies EU Committee Access to Tax Documents
November 18, 2015
The UK has joined a group of twelve other EU member states in denying a committee of Members of the European Parliament ("MEPs") access to documents detailing tax rulings that it had privately shared with an EU "code of conduct group" on business taxation over the past seventeen years.
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Cameron Sets out EU Renegotiation Goals
November 11, 2015
In a speech and letter to European Council President Donald Tusk, UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for reforms in the British relationship with the EU, including measures that would prevent eurozone countries from discriminating against the UK, immigration reform, and an end to "ever closer union."
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