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CoE Committee Describes "Social Rights" Violations
January 28, 2015
The Council of Europe's ("CoE") Social Rights Committee has released conclusions purporting to detail 252 violations of the European Social Charter, which seeks to advance standards in realms such as collective bargaining and work conditions, in 41 CoE member states.
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Article Seeks Expanded EU in Response to Backlash
January 28, 2015
As support for EU centralization ebbs in countries across Europe, Carnegie Europe has published an article calling for the EU to respond by expanding its operations to make it seem more relevant in Europeans' daily lives.
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EU Considers Surveillance Tools to Fight Terrorism
January 21, 2015
The Washington Post reports that the EU is considering introducing new provisions standardizing the sharing of intelligence among countries in the bloc, including a passenger name record database that would permit countries to track information about travelers across Europe.
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Evans-Pritchard: ECJ Declares "Legal Supremacy" over States
January 21, 2015
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that the recent finding by an EU Court of Justice ("ECJ") Advocate General that the European Central Bank's bond-buying program is lawful, with limits, constitutes "a vaulting assertion of EU primacy" to which member states did not agree in EU treaties.
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Observers Warn of "Crisis" in ECJ Bond-Buying Decision
January 21, 2015
The Irish Times reports that some German observers predict a "constitutional crisis" in Germany that could result in the country leaving the euro if the Court of Justice of the EU upholds its Advocate General's opinion that the European Central Bank's bond-buying program, with limitations, is lawful.
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