Judge: Italy Illegally Expels Asylum Seekers
Italy is illegally sending asylum seekers who cross its borders back into the Balkans, where they are routinely beaten and mistreated by police, according to an Italian judge.
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Court OKs BBQLoumi Trademark in Blow to Cyprus Cheese Makers
After scoring a court win last year in their fight to protect the name of their cheese, a European court on Wednesday handed Cypriot halloumi cheese makers a setback by approving a Bulgarian company’s bid to market its cheese products as BBQLOUMI.
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EU Magistrate Says Venezuela Can Sue Bloc Over Sanctions
Venezuela can contest economic sanctions before the European Union’s highest court, a magistrate for the court said Wednesday.
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UK Can’t Deport Refugee Relying on Family for Protection, EU Court Rules
In a case where British authorities wanted to deport a Somali refugee convicted of burglary, Europe’s highest court on Wednesday did not stand in the way of sending him back to Somalia but said he should only be returned if he is safe from persecution.
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Europe’s Highest Court Hears Its First Case in Irish Language
“Ní in éagmais saincheisteanna atá an cás idir lámha.” That’s Irish for: “There is no shortage of issues invoked in the present case.”
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Refugees Protected by UN Not Automatically Barred From Asylum in EU
The EU’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Germany must consider all factors that led a Palestinian refugee to seek asylum in the bloc, despite being eligible for United Nations protections, before turning him away.
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Slow Rollout of Vaccines in Europe Leads to Noxious Politics
European Union regulators on Wednesday approved the use of a second vaccine against the novel coronavirus, this one manufactured by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Moderna, but the announcement will do little to quiet rows erupting across Europe over a sluggish rollout of vaccinations.
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EU Leaders Finalize Investment Deal With China
The European Union and China on Wednesday reached a major business investment deal that lets European firms into lucrative Chinese markets and calls for China to ban forced labor and ramp up efforts to protect the environment.
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UK House of Commons Backs Brexit Deal
After four and a half years of acrimonious debate over Brexit, the House of Commons on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed a trade deal the British government reached with the European Union to keep goods flowing across the English Channel after Britain leaves the bloc on New Year’s Day.
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China and EU Poised to Strike Investment Deal
In a blow to President-elect Joe Biden, the European Union and China are poised to reach a major deal that opens China’s lucrative domestic markets to European companies and includes commitments from the repressive Chinese regime to beef up its environmental goals and ban forced labor.
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EU and UK Finally Reach Brexit Trade Deal
Four and a half years after the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom and the European Union reached a last-minute trade deal on Thursday that will ease tensions between the two sides and keep goods flowing.
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With Time Running Out, EU and UK Near Post-Brexit Trade Deal
European Union and British negotiators closed in on a trade deal Wednesday, raising hopes a chaotic economic break between the two sides on New Year’s Day could be averted, officials said.
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EU Magistrates Delve Into Rule-of-Law Disputes in Poland, Malta
European magistrates on Thursday waded into contentious battles over judicial independence in Poland and Malta and legal challenges to the way judges are appointed in those countries, where critics say the rule of law has been eroded.
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Ban on Ritual Animal Slaughter Upheld by EU High Court
Ruling against an unlikely alliance of Jewish and Muslim leaders, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday that member states can require that animals be stunned before being killed.
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Top EU Court Tosses Lawyer’s Challenge to Cyprus Bailout
A Cypriot lawyer with ties to the Trump administration lost his final appeal before the EU’s high court Wednesday in a dispute over money lost during the last financial crisis.
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EU Takes on Big Tech Again, This Time With Tough Laws
Under new proposed European Union rules, tech giants like Facebook and Google could face massive fines if they repeatedly fail to take down content deemed dangerous and break fair competition practices.
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EU Regulators Move Up Pfizer Vaccine Assessment to Dec. 21
Facing strong pressure from Germany and other European Union nations, the bloc’s medicines agency on Tuesday moved up a meeting to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Dec. 21, likely bringing vaccinations a step closer for millions of EU citizens.
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After Last-Ditch Dinner Talks, EU-UK No Closer to a Deal
The specter of the United Kingdom and the European Union formally cutting ties at the end of the year without even a bare-bones trade deal grew on Wednesday night after the two sides met in Brussels and failed to carve out much room for compromise.
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Global Coronavirus Death Toll Approaching 1 Million
With the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic nearing 1 million, Europe is once again becoming a hotspot as several European nations report thousands of new infections each day.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed the appeal of Russian companies that are members of the energy giant Rosneft group in their case against restrictive measures imposed upon them in response to actions taken by Russia to destabilize Ukraine.
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