Top EU Court Shuts Down Nationalist Party’s Panel for Culling Polish Judges
Poland must suspend a controversial disciplinary chamber for judges, the European Union’s high court ruled Wednesday.
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Rescue Ship Saves 150, but Can’t Dock in Europe
A German rescue ship was seeking a safe port on Tuesday after it saved 150 refugees from small boats in distress off the Libyan coast.
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EU Adviser: Consumers Can Sue Over VW Scandal in Home Courts
An Austria-based consumer rights group can sue Volkswagen in Austrian national court over defective cars sold during the automaker’s emissions scandal even though the company is headquartered in Germany, a magistrate with the EU’s top court said Thursday.
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Top EU Court Calls for More Scrutiny in Extradition Cases
European Union member states must make sure countries outside the bloc that ask to extradite someone will not torture or kill that person, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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Worst Day Yet: Deaths Surge and Surpass 30,000 in Europe
The death toll in Europe from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 30,000 people on Wednesday as Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands each reported hundreds of new deaths.
Read morePandemic Invades Body of European Union
The coronavirus pandemic is not just infecting hundreds of thousands of Europeans – it’s also attacking the pulmonary system of Europe’s politics and economies and badly sickening the European Union, a massive but fragile experiment in multinational democracy and borderless landscapes where people and goods move with few restraints.
Read moreEU Launches New Naval Mission to Police Libya Arms Embargo
The European Union announced Tuesday the launch of a new naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enforcing the U.N. arms embargo on Libya, after Italy blocked a previous operation claiming that the warships attracted migrants to Europe’s shores.
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Europe Busts Sanctions to Help Iran Recover
European nations have delivered medical equipment to Iran in the first transaction under the Instex mechanism set up to bypass U.S. sanctions on Tehran, the German foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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Pandemic Puts the ‘European Project’ at Risk
The European Union warned Monday that economic policy disagreements among member states in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic risked splitting and dooming the European project.
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EU Court Expands Right to Be Paid for Flight Delays
Flight delayed in Europe? You’re entitled to compensation from the airline even if you booked your trip through a travel agency, the European Union’s top court said Thursday.
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Top EU Court Calls for Clarity in Credit Agreements
Merely referring to a national law in a contract is not enough to make a consumer credit agreement clear, Europe’s top court held Thursday.
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EU High Court Turns Away Dispute Over Polish Judicial Reforms
The European Union’s highest court said Thursday it won’t take up a case about disciplinary procedures for Polish judges, the latest battle over judicial independence in the central European country.
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Covid-19 Deaths Soar in Europe, Set to Surpass 10,000
With more than 2,600 new deaths over the weekend, the coronavirus pandemic is intensifying in Europe and the number of deaths is on track to surpass 10,000 in what many are calling Europe’s worst crisis since World War II.
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European Markets Tank Again; Recession Inevitable
European stocks dived more than 4% at opening Monday as the coronavirus death toll continued to soar and U.S. lawmakers failed to agree to a trillion-dollar emergency package.
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Environmental Group Loses Fight for EU Trade Records
The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that an environmental law charity cannot have access to documents relating to EU trade agreements.
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EU Adviser Says Courts Can Change Unfair Contract Terms
Courts in the European Union can adjust contracts such as mortgage loans that are unfair to consumers if they violate national laws, even if they don’t violate EU rules, an adviser to Europe’s highest court said Thursday.
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Court Finds EU Employment Rules Cover Interim Workers
The European Union’s top court found Thursday that workers aren’t exempt from regulations on permanent employment contracts just because they have agreed to multiple temporary contracts.
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EU Won’t Stop Member States From Seizing Assets of Accused
European Union regulations don’t prevent countries from confiscating assets from someone charged with civil offenses or not yet convicted of a crime, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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Europe Closes Borders, Props Up Economies as Crisis Deepens
Facing an even bigger wave of death and sickness, Europe shut itself in on Wednesday and banned most travel into the European Union in a desperate bid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus and seal itself off from more contagion.
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Europe Weighs Banning Outside Travelers Amid More Lockdowns
The European Union said Monday it wants to block nonessential travelers from entering the bloc as restrictions on movement and gatherings tightened across a continent finding itself unprepared for a global pandemic and struggling to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
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