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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
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EU court urged to rule against Hungary's 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 Europe's 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 for European Union's highest court on Thursday urged the court to rule that Hungary violated the b...
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 protection procedures and the conditions for carrying on activities intended to aid migrants for such i...
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 which have since been reversed, blindsided gas producers, which have spent over a decade and billions of...