The European Court of Human Rights receives a lot of complaints about Turkey. Especially after the failed coup in July, the number of complaints exploded. Compared to 2015, the number of complaints last year increased by 276 percent, said ECtHR Minister Guido Raimondi Thursday. 5363 complaints or over half of all new complaints concerned the coup attempt.
The EU should make a deal like migration with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees from North Africa. The Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat put such an agreement as a brake on large numbers of boat people which according to him this spring can be expected over the central Mediterranean.
Italian Christian Democrat Antonio Tajani (63) is the new President of the European Parliament. The former EU Commissioner and confidant of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi defeated Tuesday in Strasbourg at the fourth and decisive round of voting his rival Gianni Pittella, a Social Democrat, according to several sources, including from the fraction of Tajani, the European People's Party.
The European Parliament Tuesday vote a second time on a new president. In the first round of voting Tuesday in Strasbourg took none of the six candidates for the EU perch the necessary absolute majority.
Seven candidates have officially signed Monday for the presidency of the European Parliament. The 751 members in Strasbourg on Tuesday to choose a successor to the Social Democrat Martin Schulz entering the German national politics.
Guy Verhofstadt withdrew Tuesday as a candidate for the presidency of the EU Parliament. The liberal Belgian former president was doing that started a few minutes before the first ballot, the outgoing President Martin Schulz announced.
Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man who is suspected to have taken lead them to a terrorist cell. He would have recruited which were then sent to Turkey include volunteers to be trained by Islamic State. That made the Spanish Interior Ministry said Monday.
The 751 Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday to choose a new president. The Social Democrat Martin Schulz swapped after 22 years, the last five as parliament president, the European political stage for the German national politics. He is the secret ballot of up to four rounds itself.
Former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj should be released. That the French court decided Thursday. Haradinaj must not leave France, as long as no final decision on an extradition request from Serbia. The Kosovar was arrested last week by French police.
may impose Parents of Muslim girls in Switzerland are to send their daughter to school mixed swimming. This has given the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday in a case involving Muslim parents refused their daughters, who were not yet in puberty, to go to swimming lessons.
The battle for the succession of the German Social Democrat Martin Schulz could erupt as President of the European Parliament. The political groups in parliament have almost all moved forward a candidate.
The European police force, Europol announced the dismantling of a gang allegedly smuggled approximately five hundred Somalis in Netherlands and other European countries. One of the main suspects come from Geleen, according to Europol. He was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant. Other suspects come from the French cities of Paris and Strasbourg Modane.
The measures envisaged by the Dutch government to fight jihadism, does not sit well with the Council of Europe. In a letter to the Ministers Ronald Plasterk (Interior) and Ard van der Steur (Security and Justice), the Organization for Democracy and Human Rights in Strasbourg demands explanation over three bills.
The five men who last weekend were arrested in France were controlled by Islamic State from Iraq and Syria. That said, the French public prosecutor Friday.
Five terror suspects last weekend were arrested in France, had plans to commit on 1 December attacks in and around Paris. They include the headquarters of the French domestic intelligence in Levallois-Perret, the headquarters of the criminal investigation department, a courthouse and the Champs-Elysées on the eye, reported sources in the police in Paris and Disneyland in Marne-la-Vallée.
The European Parliament wants the EU to temporarily freeze the talks with Turkey. A large majority voted Thursday in this call because of the 'disproportionate repressive measures' in Turkey since the foiled coup July.
'The European Union is in my view the most important project of the century. As president, I have tried to contribute to the visibility and democratic influence of the European Parliament. It was an honor. 'So said Martin Schulz Thursday in Brussels at the official announcement of his departure as parliament speaker.
The European Union must do more if IS against the increased propaganda of Russia and terrorist organizations. The European Parliament called Wednesday on the strengthening of the nine-strong EU team 'disinformation attacks' trying to parry.
David Davis, the British minister to the departure of the UK from the EU to lead in the right direction, speaking this week on the European continent with some of his counterparts in the European institutions. The European Union will only negotiate if the departure was formally announced by the end of March, but Davis wants already do some groundwork ' '.
With the arrest of seven people last weekend, the French authorities have been able to thwart a terrorist attack. This was announced by the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday.
Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two advocates of the Iraqi-Kurdish jezidivrouwen who were abducted by IS terrorist organization, won the Sakharov Human Rights Prize in 2016.
The volume of industrial 'bad' fats in snacks like pizzas, chips or microwave popcorn must be reduced. The European Parliament wants a legal limit. It voted Wednesday in Strasbourg with a proposal that the number of deaths is expected to reduce as a result of excessive consumption of so-called trans fatty acids in the EU.
Former leader and founder of the French, far-right National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen on Tuesday his immunity as a member of the European Parliament lost. His colleagues agreed with a recommendation of the Legal Department, at the request of the French court also has begun an investigation into possible lifting of the immunity of Le Pen's daughter Marine, current FN president.
Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway may continue to pursue three months checks on their internal borders. The European Commission stated that Tuesday.
Not occasional government by undemocratic 'misconduct' give a slap on the wrist, but all EU countries assess each year whether they meet European standards for democracy. The European Parliament welcomed the proposal in Strasbourg on Tuesday with ample majority.
UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe, which two weeks ago ended up in hospital after a fight with a fellow party member, leaving the party.
The human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe Nils Muiznieks not travel to Russia. The authorities have him ' unacceptable restrictions' imposed, he announced Tuesday.
The Vaclav Havel Prize for Human Rights has been awarded to the Iraqi activist Nadia Murad. It belongs to the Yazidis and was abducted at the age of 21 in 2014 by the Islamic State.
MEP Mike Hookem accuses his party colleague Steven Woolfe its dramatic picture where he is to have put in scene on his stomach in the corridors of the parliament in Strasbourg. He threatens to drag him to court.
The European Parliament proposes an investigation into the brawl Thursday with Steven Woolfe of the UK Independence Party UKIP was injured. Parliament President Martin Schulz said Friday the incident 'extremely serious' and wants the inquiry committee next week formed an opinion.
