Supporters of the European Union in Britain have won an ironic victory at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has ruled that the United Kingdom has the sovereign right to act with total independence to decide to continue to subject itself to European Union control by cancelling the Brexit process.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ), the highest court in the continental power bloc and one that the United Kingdom remains bound to obey until it fully removes itself from the European Union, is considering Tuesday a challenge by anti-Brexit politicians to allow them the right to cancel Brexit altogether.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the expenses of Members of the European Parliament can be kept secret, to protect their “privacy” and “integrity”.
The European Union is taking further legal steps against Britain over its alleged failure to effectively prevent customs duties fraud, which is hurting the EU’s budget.
Poland’s deputy prime minister has warned that the European Union (EU) risks heading down the path towards “auto-destruction” if it undermines Polish sovereignty by trying to block domestic reforms aimed at increasing the accountability of Polish judges.
Theresa May’s government has quietly agreed with the European Union (EU) to give European courts the final say over Brexit issues, including the massive “divorce bill”, migrant rights, and the Irish border “backstop”.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that all member states must overlook their same-sex marriage laws by recognizing gay couples married in other territories.
Theresa May has said the continued influence of EU law and the EU court is a “hard fact” which voters must accept.
Unelected Brussels bureaucrats are set to demand the UK continues to obey the rulings of European Courts for an indefinite period after Brexit as they maintain their uncompromising stance in divorce negotiations.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says that asylum-seekers in the bloc shouldn’t be psychologically tested on their sexual orientation as part of the procedure to grant them protection.
The European Court of Justice has ruled against the Swedish government’s decision to deport a terrorist asylum seeker claiming that he must remain in Sweden because he could face potential torture in his native Morocco.
A migrant who divorced his wife using Islamic Sharia law in Syria could have the ceremony recognised in Germany, the European Union’s (EU) top court has ruled. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said the issue was not covered by EU
Cabinet Remainers are “delighted” with the series of massive concessions Theresa May struck in the Brexit deal, with EU President Donald Tusk bragging the UK will be effectively powerless during the two-year transition period.
Brussels is to sue Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic over their refusal to take in third world migrants, the EU announced on Thursday.
A draft European Parliament resolution sets to make EU citizens in the UK ‘a super-privileged caste’, with rights greater than those of Britons, and the European Court of Justice will guarantee those rights for 10 years after Brexit.
A European Union (EU) court has ruled that EU citizens who become British have more rights than other Brits to bring in spouses from outside the bloc to live in the UK.
The Labour party is open to allowing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) retaining power over the UK after Britain leaves the European Union (EU), the Shadow Brexit Secretary has said.
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The Brexit Minister has said the UK will accept the jurisdiction of European courts during a Brexit transition period “certainly initially” and confirmed MPs will be allowed to vote on a final Brexit deal.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, normally a stalwart defender of Theresa May, has slammed the prime minister’s Florence speech, drawing a red line over the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) during the two-year ‘implementation’ period, and has demanded that Free Movement ends in 2019.
Poland’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski announced his country’s intention to defy the latest European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that would force Poland to take in migrants.
Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has vowed “the real battle is only just beginning”, as the Court of Justice of the European Union demands that Budapest allow Brussels to settle migrants in Central Europe.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Hungary and Slovakia must take in redistributed migrants from other European Union (EU) member states rejecting the legal challenges by the two countries.
It is inane to ignore the distinction between common law and civil law or between the English definition of Rule of Law and the European Rechtsstaat. The two are radically different.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected the advice of one of its own Advocates-General to rule that migrants can be sent back to the bloc’s border states, effectively overturning the “open door” policy ushered in by Germany’s Angela Merkel in 2015 – but, contradictorily, it also appears set to uphold a scheme to redistribute migrants from those border states to other EU members.
Britain and the EU edged forward during their Brexit negotiation session this week, but wrangling over the EU court’s status continues.
Hans-Olaf Henkel has warned that top EU negotiators “want to make a mess” of Brexit in order to keep other Eurosceptic member-states in line.
Remainers within Theresa May’s government may have persuaded her to accept continued submission to the European Court of Justice as the price of a deal with the EU.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Brexit Secretary is demanding that Theresa May drop her “unhelpful” commitment to ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice over Britain once it leaves the EU. Brussels officials are insisting that the ECJ or another
The European Union’s chief negotiator in the Brexit talks is insisting the European Court of Justice (ECJ) should not only continue to have jurisdiction over EU migrants in Brexit Britain but that it should also retain its current powers to fine the British government.
The Tory Brexit and Foreign Secretaries are reportedly pushing the Prime Minister to drop her “red line” opposition to the UK staying subject to rulings of the European Court of Justice.
As negotiations in Brussels stumble on the question of EU migrants and the European Court’s powers over Britain after Brexit, a former judge has accused the bloc of “judicial imperialism”.
Plans to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and end the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisdiction over Britain have been scrapped in the Conservative Party manifesto. The document, titled ‘Forward, Together‘, does rule out incorporating the European
The Court of Justice of the European Union has greatly expanded the unelected European Commission’s powers over trade policy, which streamlines the process of negotiating a UK/EU deal – but increases the influence of Brussels hardliners.
The governments of Hungary and Slovakia are making their case to the European Court of Justice after refusing to take in redistributed migrants from Greece and Italy.
In addition to his customary invective against European governments for refusing to allow his ministers to rally Turkish expatriates behind him, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that the EU’s new ban on headscarves in the workplace would launch “a struggle between the cross and the crescent.”
Turkey on Tuesday attacked a ruling by the EU’s top court that European companies can ban employees from wearing religious or political symbols including the Islamic headscarf, saying it would intensify anti-Muslim sentiment.
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Britain will still be subject to European courts well into next decade after Brexit, a top European Union (EU) leader has said.
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