EU report: citizens willing to forgo unanimity to see action on major issues like climate change
The European Parliament Monday released a report from a year-long conference among EU citizens spelling out 49 proposed changes for the EU. The report calls for greater EU leadership on the world stage and even recommends removing the principle of unanimity, which requires approval from all EU member states to advance certain actions, from EU [...]
Ukraine applies to Europe rights court over alleged targeted assassinations by Russia
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced on Tuesday that Ukraine has lodged an application against Russia alleging breach of right to life through Russia’s State-authorised targeted assassinations of opponents of Russia. Ukraine claims that these assassination operations were performed outside of armed conflict situations against “perceived opponents of the Russian Federation,” in Russia [...]
Comparing the Federalist vs. Intergovernmentalist View of the EU
JURIST Guest Columnist Sedef Asli Topal of the University of Szeged discusses the EU's institutional framework using two popular approaches...The transformation of the European Union into "an ever closer union" in terms of political space is a topic of which...
Allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal justice system in Council of Europe member states, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, June 23, 2009 [addressing politically-motivated legal abuses, including Russia's shortcomings in...
