The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), based in Parma, Italy, is looking for a Senior Legal Officer. The purpose of this call is to establish a talent pool (reserve list) that may be used for the recruitment of staff when a position becomes available and will be valid until 31/12/2020. The validity of the talent pool […]
Laura Kövesi confirmed as European Chief Prosecutor
Parliament’s leading MEPs endorsed Laura Codruţa Kövesi’s appointment as the first head of the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office. The decision by the Conference of Presidents (EP President David Sassoli and political group leaders) follows an agreement in September between Parliament and Council negotiators on the new European Chief Prosecutor. Parliament’s negotiating team backed Ms Kövesi throughout the negotiations. […]
Gender Based Approaches to the Law and Juris Dictio in Europe
First International Workshop of Jean Monnet Module “European Law and Gender”(ELaN) The Department of Law of the University of Pisa hosts a two-days international workshop on Gender based approaches to the law and juris dictio in the European Union on June 19-20, in Pisa (Italy), within the frame of the European Law & Gender Jean Monnet Module […]
Chemical weapons: Council renews EU sanctions regime for one year
The Council today extended restrictive measures by the EU addressing the use and proliferation of chemical weapons until 16 October 2020. The sanctions consist of These sanctions consist of: a travel ban to the EU and an asset freeze for persons, as well as an asset freeze for entities, currently apply to nine persons – five linked to […]
Arrests for exploitation of female victims for prostitution
The Dutch, Romanian and Belgian authorities, with the assistance of Eurojust, arrested two Romanian nationals, who are suspected of trafficking in human beings, people smuggling, money laundering and other crimes. The suspects exploited and partially forced into prostitution a group of approximately 10 women from Romania and the Republic of Moldova in the Netherlands, taking […]
State aid: Commission open investigations into individual “excess profit” tax rulings granted by Belgium to 39 multinational companies
The European Commission has opened in-depth investigations to assess whether tax rulings on “excessive profits” handed down by Belgium to 39 multinational companies gave these companies an unfair advantage over their competitors, in breach of EU state aid rules. The decisions to open this investigation follow the annulment by the General Court in February 2019 […]
Strengthening the rule of law through increased awareness, an annual monitoring cycle and more effective enforcement
Building on the lessons learnt since 2014 and detailed consultations since April this year, the Commission has decided on a series of measures to further strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Over the past five years, the European Commission has had to deal with a series of challenges to the rule of law in […]
Rejected Puigdemont and Comín’s request that the European Parliament be ordered to allow them to take their seats
The applicants, Mr. Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó and Mr. Antoni Comín i Oliveres, stood as candidates in the elections to the European Parliament on 26 May 2019. On 26 May 2019, the Lliures per Europa (Junts) coalition, led by the plaintiffs, won 1,018,435 votes and two seats in the European Parliament. On 13 June 2019, […]
Adoption of new rules to better protect children caught in cross-border parental disputes
The EU makes it easier and faster for decisions on divorce, legal separation and marriage annulment, as well as on parental responsibility issues and international child abduction to be applied across borders. The Council recently adopted a revision of the so-called Brussels IIa regulation which sets out rules on the jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of […]