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EU Commission President Faces Pressure over Tax Deals
November 12, 2014
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is facing intense criticism over the inconsistency between EU attempts to harmonize tax policy in the bloc and the Luxembourg Government's negotiation of special corporate tax deals while Juncker was Prime Minister.
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Howarth: No Need for EU Criminal Justice System
November 12, 2014
Prior to the U.K. House of Commons vote on EU law and justice measures, Christopher Howarth explains the opposition to the European Arrest Warrant as the recognition that there is no reason cooperation with European neighbors on justice measures "should entail creating an EU criminal justice system."
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Official Finds Military Deserters Can Claim Asylum in EU
November 12, 2014
The Advocate General for the Court of Justice of the EU has issued an opinion finding that a former maintenance mechanic in the U.S. military could legally claim asylum in Germany if he considered himself at risk of punishment for failure to perform services that might result in war crimes.
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Moore: ECHR Advances Human Rights Religion
November 05, 2014
Charles Moore writes that the European Court of Human Rights' ("ECHR") attempt to impose a secular religion of international human rights law on European countries is a threat to democratic governance.
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Persson: Lesson of Barroso's Presidencies Is Decentralization
November 05, 2014
Mats Persson of the think tank Open Europe writes that former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso's legacy is a divided Europe and that the lesson of his administration is therefore that "Europe cannot be constructed from Brussels."
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