The Tax Justice Network has welcomed the European Commission’s new measures to combat tax abuses in the digital economy – in particular, the intention to ensure taxes are paid in the places where business is done, and where profits are really made.
Environment ministers from nine EU countries, including the UK and Germany, were called to Brussels on 30 January 2018 to explain prolonged failure to address illegal levels of air pollution.
Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the decision to trigger Article 7 of the European Union treaty against Poland, but has expressed regret that it only addresses judicial independence and ignores repeated attacks on the media.
The High Court has ruled that rough sleeping does not constitute an abuse of EU free movement rights and that Home Office policy in this regard is unlawful.
United States surveillance laws and programmes are so broad and contain such weak safeguards that they render the EU-US Privacy Shield invalid, Human Rights Watch said yesterday in a briefing and letter to the European Commission, published jointly with Amnesty International.
The Church and Peace network is warning against extending a financial and political instrument at the disposal of the European Union that could strengthen the military capacity of non-EU countries, a move the network sees as a major shift.
On the second day of his visit to Brussels the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the opening ceremony of the European Development Days forum and participated in a commemoration for the victims of the March airport bombing attacks in the city.