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ECtHR Finds Secret Hearings for Terror Suspects Valid
October 28, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has found that a set of closed court sessions in the UK for three Pakistani students, who had been detained in an anti-terror inquiry for two weeks as courts considered the validity of arrest warrants on national security grounds, did not violate the suspects' human rights.
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EU Orders Fiat, Starbucks to Pay Extra Taxes
October 28, 2015
European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has ordered European car company Fiat and US coffee chain Starbucks tens of millions of euros in extra taxes to Luxembourg and Dutch tax authorities, respectively, alleging that these countries' tax deals with the companies were invalid under EU law.
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Farage Seeks Impartial Reporting from BBC
October 28, 2015
In a letter to the British Broadcasting Corporation ("BBC"), head of the UK Independence Party and Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage has called on the company to report impartially on the British referendum on whether to remain in the EU by not using the term "Europe" as a shorthand for EU institutions.
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Johnson: Reclaim Supremacy of UK Parliament
October 28, 2015
UK Member of Parliament Boris Johnson writes that the UK should re-establish the sovereignty of the British Parliament by amending the legislation it passed to join the EU to make clear that EU laws only control when Parliament has not "expressly and subsequently decided otherwise."
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Italy Announces Plans to Defy Brussels on Budget
October 28, 2015
In a recent interview, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said that if the European Commission rejects his country's budget plan for 2016, he will re-submit the budget without any changes.
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