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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 country's 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 "unjustified obstacle to the exercise of the rights guaranteed by the EU legislation concerning assistance ...

(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 religious beliefs. The opinion was not immediately available in English. The two cases were referred...