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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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British MP Describes EU Threats to U.K. Finance
January 21, 2015
U.K. Member of Parliament ("MP") Sir Bill Cash writes that EU financial laws and the growth of the eurozone are threatening the future of the British financial industry.
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EU Officials in "Disarray" After ECHR Accession Ruling
January 21, 2015
Michael Farrell writes that EU officials who had attempted to strike a deal involving EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") are uncertain of how to proceed following a ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU rejecting the accession deal.
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