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EU Considers "Tax and Spend" Policies to Exit Crisis
September 17, 2014
The European Commission is considering a number of different spending measures that would seek to promote growth in the stagnant economic bloc, including a 300-billion-euro investment program proposed by the new Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Lord Hill Faces Heat in New Commission Position
September 17, 2014
Following the offer to Britain's proposed representative in the European Commission Lord Hill to head the body's financial services portfolio, head of the U.K. Independence Party Nigel Farage warned that the Commissioner could not be trusted to act in the interests of the British people.
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Tuttle Explores Recent UKIP Success
September 10, 2014
At National Review Online, Ian Tuttle explains how the popularity of the U.K. Independence Party ("UKIP") arises from the belief that British has ceded sovereignty to EU institutions, which, he argues, are "anti-democratic."
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ECHR Refuses Deportation Due to Risk of "Life-Without-Parole" Sentence
September 10, 2014
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") has declared that Belgium's deportation of a terror suspect to the U.S. would violate his human rights because the U.S. could impose upon the suspect a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release.
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Irish Justice Expresses Subsidiarity Concerns over ECHR
September 10, 2014
Irish Supreme Court Justice Adrian Hardiman has questioned whether the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") has ignored the principle of subsidiarity by hearing a case when domestic remedies had not yet been exhausted.
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