About: justice and home affairs Archives
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High profile Romanian arrest bodes well ahead of monitoring report
The high-profile arrest at the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism is expected to influence an upcoming monitoring report, which may open the doors to Romania’s Schengen accession. EURACTIV Romania reports.
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France campaigns for EU border guards
France wants to increase funding for Frontex, Europe’s border control agency, and ensure border guards. It will raise the issue in the European Council on Friday 27 June. EURACTIV France reports.
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Commission urges EU countries to fight rise of extremism
The European Commission called on member states to bump up their efforts to prevent radicalisation and extremism. In the coming years, a €20 million programme will seek to tackle extremism, especially with those young people who leave EU countries to fight in Syria or other conflict zones.
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Brussels acts to stem flow of EU’s radicalised ‘foreign fighters’
The European Commission called on member states yesterday (15 January) to bump up their efforts to prevent radicalisation and extremism. In the coming years, a €20 million programme will seek to tackle extremism, especially with those young people who leave EU countries to fight in Syria or other conflict zones.
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The case of Judge Todorova, or what is wrong with justice in Bulgaria
Judges in Bulgaria are sanctioned not when they commit a violation, but when they disobey, writes Ivanka Ivanova.
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Commission to test the efficiency of national courts
The European Commission yesterday (27 March) launched a scoreboard to compare the justice systems of member states in a bid to assess how courts can affect economic growth.
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Barroso steps forward as Romanian election arbiter
José Manuel Barroso’s congratulatory message following the recent parliamentary election in Romania carries two important messages: it tells President Traian B?sescu that he should re-appoint Victor Ponta as prime minister, and warns Ponta he should work with B?sescu instead of reviving efforts to impeach him.
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OLAF chief pleads for European public prosecutor
The head of the EU anti-fraud office OLAF, Giovanni Kessler, pleaded yesterday (5 December) for the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s Office as a formal EU institution.
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Britain’s opt-out on EU police and crime laws raises eyebrows
The UK's intended opt-out from EU cooperation on police and criminal matters will be the “elephant in the room” at the two-day meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers beginning today (25 October), diplomats told EURACTIV.
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Montenegro opens accession talks
EU foreign affairs ministers decided yesterday (26 June) to open accession negotiations with Montenegro on Friday, coinciding with the Union's leadership summit.
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Standing ovation for Croatia’s 2013 EU accession
MEPs applauded a motion approving Croatia's EU membership on 1 July 2013, after passing it yesterday (1 December) by a large majority in the European Parliament. EU heads of states are expected to sign the Accession Treaty at next week's summit in Brussels.
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Confusion reigns on Croatia’s last stretch to EU
Following a dinner of EU foreign ministers yesterday (23 May), contradictory statements were made regarding Croatia's last few miles on the road to EU accession.
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EU moves to protect rights of victims
The European Commission will propose today (18 May) a package of measures aimed at boosting the protection of the 30 million citizens who every year fall victims of crime in the European Union.
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New cross-border divorce rules for 14 EU countries
Fourteen EU member states earlier this week (12 July) used a pioneering cooperation law to press ahead with plans to simplify divorce rules for couples of different nationalities.
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Assertive Parliament ratifies EU-US anti-terror deal
After rejecting an earlier version in February, the European Parliament approved a revised EU-US bank-data sharing deal yesterday (8 July), asserting its new-found role in the EU's institutional power game under the Lisbon Treaty.
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Parliament to back new EU-US data-sharing deal
The European Parliament is tomorrow (8 July) expected to rubber-stamp a revised EU-US agreement on bank data-sharing, called 'SWIFT', that is set to give significant new powers of oversight to US anti-terror investigators. Some MEPs feel, however, that the ongoing saga represents "misuse" of parliamentary power.
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Schengen celebrates, prepares for enlargement
Bulgaria and Romania have both moved closer to Schengen area as the European Commission today (14 June) marks the 25th anniversary of the Schengen Agreement, providing for the gradual abolition of frontier checks at their common borders with other EU countries.
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Füle: I’ll make sure Croatia joins EU without monitoring
Bulgaria and Romania's EU accession in January 2007 was accompanied by a monitoring mechanism designed to guide those countries' progress in the field of law enforcement, but Croatia should join without such a tool, Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner Štefan Füle told EURACTIV in an interview.
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Angry MEPs demand delay on EU-US bank data deal
MEPs today (21 January) clashed with EU ministers, calling for a delay to the entry into force of the so-called SWIFT agreement, a EU-US deal maintaining the transfer of EU citizens' banking data to US investigators.
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Malmström steady but ‘lacking ambition’ in hearing
Swedish Commissioner-designate for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström gave a steady account to the European Parliament in a confirmation hearing yesterday (19 January), but was accused by some MEPs of lacking ambition in her proposals.
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New EU justice chief vows to protect citizens’ privacy
Reinforcing citizens' rights will be a top priority in the coming years, said Viviane Reding, the EU's commissioner-designate for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, at a parliamentary hearing yesterday (12 January), voicing her opposition to body scanners at airports.
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EU justice chief plans civil code, privacy laws
Viviane Reding, the EU's new commissioner for justice and fundamental rights, is planning ambitious reforms for her mandate including the introduction of a European Civil Code and a major revamp of EU data protection rules.
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Sweden revives EU homeland security plans
The Swedish EU Presidency's proposals for a new justice and home affairs agenda, adopted by European heads of state and government at their meeting in Brussels last week (10-11 December), should lead to much-needed action in areas such as immigration and asylum, experts told EURACTIV.
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Parliament approves Stockholm programme, with prison add-ons
The European Parliament yesterday (25 November) approved the Swedish EU Presidency's proposals for the next five-year plan on EU justice and home affairs. But MEPs failed to agree on controversial same-sex rights, while Italian MEPs secured an add-on to get extra funding for overcrowded prisons.