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As part of the partial renewal of the composition of the Court of Justice, the representatives of the governments of the member states have appointed two judges and two advocates-general.

The advocate general for European Union’s highest court has urged judges to rule that Hungary has violated the bloc’s laws on asylum

EU court urged to rule against Hungarys asylum policy Justin Spike Updated:  Tags:  Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, right, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a news conference at a meeting marking 30 years of central Europes informal body of cooperation called the Visegrad Group, at a conference center in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) BUDAPEST – The advocate general ...

February 26, 2021 06:07:20 pm The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found Thursday that Hungary’s criminalization of activities aimed at helping migrants who did not fulfil its national criteria for the grant of asylum violated EU law. The opinion comes in response to a series of laws, more popularly known as “Stop Soros laws,” passed by the Hungarian Parliament in 2018, which had amended Hungary’s asylum laws and made the conditions for accessing international pro...

Emerging Europe this week Central Europe Romania-based Black Sea Oil and Gas will begin extracting natural gas from its 600 million US dollars offshore Romanian project in November, its chief executive Mark Beacom said on Tuesday, but added further progress hinged on scrapping a disputed tax. The additional tax on offshore projects is the last remnant of a series of price caps, taxes and export restrictions introduced two years ago by a previous centre-left government. The changes, most of whic...

By Sertan Sanderson Published on : 2021/02/26 A top EU lawyer has delivered yet another blow to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the policies of his administration. The lawyer said that the countrys criminalization of individuals or groups who helped migrants stood at odds with EU law. Advocate General Athanasios Rantos at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that a number of Hungarian anti-migrant laws amounted to an "unjusti...

The advocate general for European Union’s highest court on Thursday urged the court to rule that Hungary violated the bloc’s laws on asylum when it passed legislation narrowing the possibilities for…

(Pexels image via Courthouse News) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — In a consolidated case involving a drug store clerk and a day care center employee, a magistrate for the European Union’s high court held that employers can ban Islamic headscarves on neutrality grounds.  In a nonbinding legal opinion for the European Court of Justice, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos wrote Thursday that the drugstore chain Müller and day care provider WABE can ban its employees from wearing visible displays of their ...

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. (Courthouse News photo/Molly Quell) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — An EU magistrate held Tuesday that the United Kingdom has the right to rule on a custody case involving a child brought by her mother to India.  If the child was taken outside the EU illegally, member states retain an indefinite right to adjudicate custody cases, regardless of where the child is living, according to the opinion for the European Court of Justice by Advocate General Athanasios R...