13 July 2018
PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release
Following the skyrocketing of deaths in the Mediterranean, human rights and refugee aid organisations from across Europe call on European Commission to take decisive action.
Amidst harrowing reports of increased numbers of drownings due to European Governments’ blocking of
The final step of the infringement procedure initiated by the Commission: the referral to the Court of Justice:
The Commission has followed to the letter the provisions of article 258 TFEU on referral to the Court in the event of a Member State’s failure to comply with EU legislation. In
As it regularly does, the European Commission published on 7 December its decisions on infringement procedures initiated or maintained against Member States that fail to comply with their obligations under the European Union legislation on asylum or migration.
Referral of three Member States to the CJEU for refusal to relocate
A year ago, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation about the European social pillar project. A common social base for all Member States was Jean-Claude’s Juncker ambition as he called to make Europe more social in its speech on the state of the Union on September 2016[1].
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Reforming data protection since 2012, the European Union adopts news tools to protect the right to privacy of European citizens. Initiated by the General Data Protection Regulation, work is continuing with the proposal for a Regulation on ePrivacy and electronic communicationIn January, the EC published a proposal of Regulation relating to the
Passed in April 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation has to be applied as of 25 May 2018. The Regulation aims to modernise the European data protection framework in order to take into account technological advances and to reduce juridical differences between the Member States. It replaces the Directive 95/46/EC.
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On 2 March, following the Malta Summit on 3 February 2017, the European Commission presented a new “Action Plan” aimed at improving the effectiveness of return decisions and the expulsion of irregular migrants, as it has done previously with the adoption of the Regulation on the European laissez-passer[1].
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September 23rd 2015 – In his opinion, the advocate general of the European Union Court of Justice, Yves Bot, argues that the Safe Harbor agreement, which allows the transfer of personal data of European citizens to the United States is “invalid”. Thus, he confirms what the civil society and the European Parliament continuously asserted: the Commission must suspend immediately this agreement which infringes the fundamental rights of European citizens.
The 18th of May, the European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly published a long-awaited report on the cohesion policy of the European Commission for the period 2014-2020. This policy provides the general financing framework that will lead to the disbursement of structural funds in the different regions of the member states. It is meant to follow two principal axes : the creation of jobs, as well as the reduction of poverty and social exclusion. If it is still impossible to foresee if the first objective will be achieved, the European Ombudsman raised the different points that show a clear violation of the second one : according to her, several measures taken by the Commission infringe the rights of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.
March,10 2015 –The European Commission and the Member States would be discussing the « best practices to follow»in order to obtain asylum seekers and illegal immigrants’ fingerprints by force. Their fingerprints have to integrate EURODAC data base so that the Dublin III Regulation can be applied. The Commission would be considering putting forward the « use of a proportionate degree of coercion » against naysayers, including vulnerable people and minors.
