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EU Parliament Resists Passenger Record Proposal
February 11, 2015
EurActiv reports that despite pressure from national governments, a group of European Parliament members are maintaining their stance against a European Commission proposal to create an EU-wide database that would store information on travelers across the bloc.
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EU Seeks to Facilitate Cross-Border Traffic Penalties
February 11, 2015
The Telegraph reports that a European Commission proposal would facilitate European countries' pursuit of suspects of traffic violations in courts abroad and that the Commission will next year consider permitting countries to add points to a driver's license issued by another EU member state.
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EU Clamps Down on Parent-Subsidiary Tax Avoidance
February 11, 2015
The Council of the EU has adopted a directive amending previous EU legislation seeking to avoid double taxation of a European parent company and its subsidiary to exempt "artificial" situations in which authorities determine the parent-subsidiary arrangement was merely maintained for the tax advantage.
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EU Parliament Declines Inquiry on Luxembourg Tax Breaks
February 11, 2015
Reuters reports that the European Parliament has declined to formally investigate Luxembourg's alleged corporate tax breaks when current EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was the country's Prime Minister, in favor of setting up a general committee to review "tax fairness" across the bloc.
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CoE Seeks Enforcement of "Social Rights"
February 11, 2015
The Council of Europe ("CoE") has announced that it is following up on the launch by CoE Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland of the "Turin Process," to "fill the gap" between civil and political rights and social and economic rights, with a formal conference on the protection of European social rights in February.
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