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Stanley: EU Was Focal Point in U.K. Election
May 08, 2015
Writing in The Telegraph, Tim Stanley argues that constitutional issues, including the U.K.'s membership in the EU, "dominated" the British election and calls on voters to hold reelected Prime Minister David Cameron to his promise of an EU referendum in 2017.
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MEPs Vote to Include Legal Aid in EU Trials Directive
May 08, 2015
A committee in the European Parliament has voted to amend the proposed EU directive on fair trial rights to strengthen the requirement of legal aid from EU member states in the case that a criminal suspect cannot afford an attorney.
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ECJ Finds Lack of Standing in Challenge to ECB Program
May 08, 2015
The Court of Justice of the EU has upheld the ruling of a lower court dismissing the complaint of a group of individuals alleging that the European Central Bank lacked the legal authority to implement its bond-buying program in 2012 for lack of standing.
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Evans-Pritchard: Cameron May Keep U.K. in EU
May 07, 2015
The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that, contrary to the views of those in Brussels and elsewhere who have expressed alarm regarding U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's call for a referendum on the EU, Cameron may be the most likely candidate to avert "Brexit."
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Juncker Warns of Euro Dismantlement upon "Grexit"
May 07, 2015
Following his comments that joining the euro currency is "irreversible," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has warned that some in the "Anglo Saxon world" would tear the eurozone apart if Greece is permitted to exit the currency bloc.