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.
Read moreItaly 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.
Read moreAfter 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.
Read moreVenezuela can contest economic sanctions before the European Union’s highest court, a magistrate for the court said Wednesday.
Read moreIn 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.
Read more“Ní in éagmais saincheisteanna atá an cás idir lámha.” That’s Irish for: “There is no shortage of issues invoked in the present case.”
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreEuropean 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAfter 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreFour 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.
Read moreEuropean 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.
Read moreEuropean 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.
Read moreRuling 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreUnder 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.
Read moreFacing 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreWith 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.
Read moreThe 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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