Austria Austria’s benefit cuts scheme for migrants was illegal, rules EU court The country's government had withheld social benefits from migrants if their children still lived in their home country. 16/06/2022
Europe News UK nationals living in EU can't vote or stand in local elections: ECJ Only citizenship of an EU member state confers the right to vote or stand in an election in the bloc, the European Court of Justice ruled. 09/06/2022
world news EU court reinstates MEP immunity of Catalonia's Carles Puigdemont Puigdemont and two other former ministers are still wanted in Spain for their role in the 2017 independence referendum. 24/05/2022
Green News EU citizens could now claim damages over harmful air pollution levels Poorer communities - who live and work in highly polluted areas - particularly need judicial protection. 05/05/2022
Europe Decoded Watch: Why Austria border curbs with Hungary and Slovenia break EU law The European court says Austria's long-standing checks with Hungary and Slovenia violate Schengen Area rules. 28/04/2022
Malta EU threatens to take Malta to court over 'golden passport' scheme Malta has rebuffed Brussels warnings and has argued that the issuing of citizenship should remain a "national competence". 06/04/2022
Culture news Denmark misusing 'feta' name on cheese exports, says EU court adviser ‘Feta’ can only be used only for cheese originating in the specified geographical area in Greece and complying with the relevant product specification." 18/03/2022
Europe News ECJ rules in favour of making EU cash handouts conditional The high court rejected a bid by Poland and Hungary, which argued the budgetary instrument exceeded EU competences. 16/02/2022
Europe News Brussels to withhold EU funds from Poland to cover unpaid fines Warsaw was slapped with a €500,000-a-day fine last year for failing to close a controversial lignite mine near the Czech Republic. 08/02/2022
Europe News EU sends formal request to Poland for payment of daily €1 million fine The European Commission has sent a formal request to Poland for payment of a daily €1 million fine. 20/01/2022
Poland Berlin wants EU to be 'Fourth German Reich', says Poland's Kaczynski The term "Fourth German Reich", added Kaczynski, "has nothing negative about it, as it is not the Third Reich but the First", i.e. the Holy Roman Empire. 24/12/2021
Hungary Orban says Hungary will defy EU court ruling on asylum policy Hungary will not change its immigration policies despite a recent ruling from the EU's top court that found them in contradiction with the bloc's laws, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. 21/12/2021
View Don't be fooled: Hungarian court ruling didn't allow pushbacks | View The Hungarian government claims last week's Constitutional Court ruling on EU migration rules as a victory for self-determination. The reality is more complex, writes lawyer Zsolt Szekeres. 16/12/2021
Europe News Same-sex parents and their children 'must be recognised as a family' The case came before the court after Bulgarian authorities refused to give a birth certificate to the baby daughter of a same-sex couple. 14/12/2021
Hungary Hungarian court avoids ruling on EU law primacy in migration case The Hungarian Constitutional Court said it could not rule on whether EU law took precedence over Hungary's constitution. 10/12/2021
Hungary European Court of Justice: EU law precludes Hungary's supreme court National judges in EU member states cannot be banned from seeking guidance from the European Court of Justice, the ruling stated. 23/11/2021
Europe News EU top court adviser issues opinion on police use of phone data If the opinion is upheld it has the potential to shape how European authorities gather evidence, potentially limiting their ability utilise mobile phone traffic and location data in criminal investigations. 18/11/2021
Poland Poland's judicial appointments process against EU law, rules ECJ The EU's top court has ruled that the Polish government's ability to send judges to higher courts and remove them casts doubts over judicial independence. 16/11/2021
Europe News Poland must pay €1 million daily over judiciary reforms, ECJ rules The court has ordered Warsaw to comply with a previous ruling that said the country's disciplinary chamber of judges must be dismantled. 27/10/2021
Poland Polish miners protest EU court order to close Turow coal mine The Turow coal mine near the Czech border generates around 7% of Poland’s energy. 22/10/2021
View Legal row could see Poland become a second-class member of EU | View "The consequences of Warsaw assaulting the EU legal order could be far-reaching, potentially turning Poland into a second-class member of the bloc." 14/10/2021
Uncovering Europe Will Poland's 'nuclear strike' on EU's legal order lead to 'Polexit'? The ruling that Polish law has supremacy over the EU's sent shockwaves across Europe. But what will it mean for EU-Poland relations? 08/10/2021
Europe News EU court scraps farming, fishing ties with Morocco over Western Sahara The rebel Polisario Front said that the decision was a victory. 29/09/2021
Europe News Poland 'must pay €500,000-a-day fine' over controversial coal mine Poland must pay €500,000-a-day to Brussels over controversial coal mine, says ECJ 20/09/2021
Green News Landmark legal case launched over toxic 'forever chemicals' in the US Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont - which was featured in the Hollywood film Dark Waters - is being sued in the EU Court of Justice. 14/09/2021
Culture news EU court backs Champagne makers in 'champanillo' name protection case The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice said it is up to the Barcelona Provincial Court, which had requested the ECJ to interpret EU law, to decide on the matter. But it made clear that protective designations of origins cover “both products and services.” 09/09/2021
