The European Court of Human Rights has confirmed until further notice the suspension of the enforcement of Georgia’s Supreme Court verdict of 2 March concerning the ownership rights of the Rustavi 2 TV Company. The Supreme Court’s verdict might have an impact on the country’s media landscape, affecting the diversity of views available to citizens through broadcasting…
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Women’s Day 2017
The European Union stands by women in Europe and around the globe today, as it did at the time of its foundation. Sixty years ago, equality between women and men was embedded in the Rome Treaty as one of the European Union’s fundamental values. At that time, Europe’s commitment to the principle of equal pay…
Italy wins EU extra funds for illegal migrants
This week the European Union nations agreed on a long-term budget for the EU including backing nearly 4 billion extra for managing illegal migrant flows and reinforce border control. The deal has been concluded after Italy withdrew the veto, imposed by then Prime Minister Matteo Renzi last October in an attempt to receive support from…
Zoo rhino killed for his horn…in Paris!
Poachers have broken into a zoo near Paris and shot a rhinoceros dead before stealing his hugely valuable ivory horn. #Breaking: Murders break into Thoiry Zoo, outside #Paris, kill an #endangered White #Rhino named Vincent, and saw off his horn. Why? Greed pic.twitter.com/QJ26IfANcd — Daniel Schneider (@BiologistDan) March 7, 2017 In the first case of…
ECJ: humanitarian visa is a national competence
The EU’s top court based in Luxembourg ruled Tuesday that states can deny short-term humanitarian visas to people trying to enter to claim asylum, in a case of a Syrian family trying to come to Belgium. Top court in #Luxembourg says states can deny #visas to #refugees https://t.co/5qjPfPQMGj – #ECJ pic.twitter.com/tFp8bSo0lM — Luxembourg Times (@LuxTimes)…
MEP Atkinson questions NGO role in smugglings migrants
Ship-tracking software and reports from journalists prove that NGOs, the Italiann Coast Guard and smugglers coordinate their actions. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) exposes NGOs operating in Libyan territorial waters. Since the ouster of President Ghadafi, a growing number of Africans are smuggled into Europe. They travel via Libya from where they cross the Mediterranean….
MEP Wikström for reform of ‘Dublin’
On 9 March 2017 the reform of the Dublin system is debated in the European Parliament with Cecilia Wikström, MEP (ALDE, Sweeden), who will present her draft report to the Civil Liberties Committee. The draft report is a first response to the Commission’s proposal, presented in May 2016, for reform of the Dublin regulation, which…
Schaeuble for making Brexit a negative example
Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said it is essential for the EU27 to stick together in while approaching “Brexit” negotiations with the UK. Schaeuble also told to press corps in Berlin that he believes Brexit negotiations will be “difficult and complicated”, and while concluding the negotiations it should be clear to everyone that remaining on…
Dutch warn againt “jihadist travellers”
There are some 190 Netherlands nationals currently living in the territories under terrorist control, the Dutch intelligence AIVD reported. Even their children as young as nine may have combat experience and pose a threat upon returning to the country. The warning comes from the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), an intelligence agency dealing with…
EU response to terrorist threat
To respond to the evolving terrorist threat, the EU is updating and extending the tools available to it. New rules adopted by the Council on 7.03.2017 will help prevent terrorist attacks by criminalising acts such as undertaking training or travelling for terrorist purposes, as well as organising or facilitating such travel. The new rules, in…
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