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Now playing Next Luxembourg Ryanair loses EU legal battle to keep Irish law for crew abroad Low cost carrier, Ryanair has insisted that a ruling by the European Court of Justice will not change the current status of employment contracts for 14/09/2017
Now playing Next Luxembourg EU's top court dismisses Hungary and Slovakia case against refugee quotas Europe's top court has ruled Slovakia and Hungary cannot refuse to take in refugees, in a victory for the EU's contentious quota system. 06/09/2017
Now playing Next Poland Protests at Polish logging of ancient forest It's the new front in the bitter conflict pitting Warsaw against Brussels: Europe's oldest forest, at Poland's border with Belarus. 01/09/2017
Now playing Next United Kingdom Theresa May denies Brexit U-turn over end of EU court's jurisdiction The UK government's new position paper says 'direct jurisdiction' of the European Court of Justice will end with Brexit. 23/08/2017
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