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Facebook Removes 800 Politics Pages seen as Fake News

October 15, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Facebook has removed over 800 pages and “inauthentic” profiles as part of an effort to conquer political misinformation on the site. By taking this step Facebook has acknowledged that spammers have lately been using more political content to generate t...
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Brexit & EU-UK Justice: European Court Would Stay in Charge

October 12, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The post-Brexit judicial ties between the UK and the EU would still see the European Court of Justice issue binding decision on important cases in UK law, according to a legal opinion of the London government's latest proposal. Prime Minister Theresa M...
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Austria Makes Immigration Central Part of Its EU Presidency

October 12, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Austria's EU presidency intends to keep pressure on member states to fulfill their obligations in taking in asylum seekers. The concept of "mandatory solidarity" in agreeing to reforms of EU migration policy wasn't realized under the previous four EU p...
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Dutch MEPs Propose Making Expense Claims Public

October 12, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

Two Dutch MEPs are proposing a motion in the European Parliament that would force the transparency of expense claims. Every month, MEPs may claim an extra €4,416 in expenses on top of their salary. Last month journalists tried and failed to force these...
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Frans Timmermans Wants to Head the Next European Commission

October 11, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans wants to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission. Timmermans, who is Dutch, is the current commissioner responsible for better regulation, interinstitutional r...
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Polish President Appoints New Supreme Court Judges Amid EU Row

October 11, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Polish President Andrzej Duda has appointed 27 new Supreme Court judges amid the ongoing rule-of-law row between Warsaw and the European Union. Duda's appointments come on the heels of the EU referring Poland to the Court of Justice over the early reti...
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Parliamentarians Suggest to Double EU’s Values Fund for NGOs

October 10, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

The proposal on a new Justice, Rights, and Values Fund was presented on Wednesday in the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE). The fund aims to support NGOs protecting European values in response to widespread attacks against civil so...
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Man Arrested Germany for Murder of Bulgarian Journalist

October 10, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

German police have arrested a man for the rape and murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. Mladen Marinov, the Bugarian Interior Minister, said the suspect's DNA matched evidence recovered from the crime scene. Marinova was a presenter for th...
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Polish Legal System Under Fire in the Netherlands

October 09, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Amsterdam District Court has refused to extradite a Polish national – who is said to be involved in drugs – to Poland due to "major doubts about the independence of the Polish judiciary". Announcing their verdict on 4 October, the judges said that ...
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Milan Mayor Refuses to Register Gay Couple as Parents of their Twins

October 09, 2018 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

While the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, has registered a number of lesbian couples as parents, he has refused do the same for a gay couple. For this reason, their twins, born in the United States, remain in a legal-administrative limbo. One of the fat...
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