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1/ CJEU today - sanctions
EU General Court upholds EU sanctions against Russian banks and oil companies re Crimea: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
This includes Sberbank, which Jacob Rees-Mogg's outfit has invested in: theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
2/ CJEU, consumer law and telecoms
New judgment: SIM card pre-loaded with fee-paying links without sufficient info to consumers breaches EU consumer law: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
Judgment also addresses overlaps between general consumer law & telecoms lex specialis
3/ CJEU, criminal law and human rights
New judgment on the balance between disclosure obligations to the defence and commercial confidentiality in banking cases - one case allegedly linked to Madoff: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
4/ CJEU, asylum law
New judgment: Hungary in breach of EU law for when applying exclusion clause for persons with subsidiary protection: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
- first CJEU judgment on this issue; also the first CJEU judgment (I think) to refer to UNHCR Handbook, @EASO guidance
5/ CJEU, consumer law II
New judgment: telecom service provider can't charge customers a premium rate to call the company; also consumers can't waive this right: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
6/ CJEU, free movement and accession
New judgment: UK restrictions on benefits for unemployed Polish man did not breach accession treaty transition rules: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
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1/ Some additional points to add to David's fact check of the latest no deal Brexit claims
2/ The "no deal is more legally certain" claim is false. I debunked this nonsense in a previous thread
3/ As for rolling over existing FTAs: even if they are all in place on time with identical terms, the UK trading position will be worse because the rules of origin will change, ie goods partly produced in the UK may no longer count as EU goods
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1 It's not a documentary. But to see how closely #Idanielblake matches reality, let's have a look at some details from the UN report on poverty in the UK: ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
2 Impact of the delay in receiving universal credit - based on a study on its roll out in the North East.
3 Impact of sanctions in the universal credit system, based also on research
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1/ Let's take a look at Mr Nelson's support for the rights of @The3Million, shall we? Because the record is...chequered.
2/ He was on a @britishfuture inquiry (with me and others) that recommended unilateral guarantees for @The3Million in December 2016. Details here: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/12/bargai…
3/ The Leave MPs on the inquiry, Stuart and Braverman, then voted *against* such guarantees a few months later. IIRC Nelson tweeted his agreement. The purity of the Article 50 bill could not be sullied etc. My take on Stuart: google.com/url?sa=i&sourc…
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Some History/Politics/Sociology exam questions 30 years from now. Some are more hypothetical than others (a thread):
Account for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in March 2019.
Account for Italy's withdrawal from the European Union in 2020.
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curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
This is a link to the press release on today's AG Opinion.
Key lines: In the view of Mr Campos Sánchez-Bordona, not placing obstacles in the way of the continued EU membership of a Member State that decides to leave the EU, but then changes its stance, in accordance with its constitutional requirements...
...and wishes to continue being a member, is an especially appropriate interpretative approach, which accords with the objective of advancing the process of integration.
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Today’s CJEU order against #Poland was made by first woman to serve as court’s Vice-President, Judge Rosario Silva de Lapuerta - appointed this month curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/rc4_…
Personal note: Judge Silva de Lapuerta once accused me of having an “a la carte” approach to the Treaty. Possibly with justification...
There hasn’t been a female President yet.
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The bill ‘increases sanctions against Russian energy and financial companies, wealthy Kremlin-connected businessmen, and so-called parastatal entities, private companies that are believed to work closely with Russian government and intelligence agencies.’ rferl.org/a/29395412.html
Lindsey Graham on the Senate Armed Service Committee and Bob Menendez on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, drew up the new legislation to “enhance sanctions pressure on Russia while bolstering the capacity of the United States government to respond."
The bill mandates ‘Senate approval if the Trump administration sought to withdraw from NATO, a concern ahead of the Trump-Putin summit, and call for sanctions on Russian sovereign debt, something that some analysts have said would be a dramatic escalation of financial pressure.’
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OI!! @LiamFox, STOP LYING!!
A Northern Irish MP just pointed out that the new #TradeBill will create a border in Northern Ireland. Fox said that it included a proposal to avoid that. Yeah, but Jacob Rees-Mogg's amendment makes it impossible for the EU to accept it!!!!
Explanation:
#TradeBill had a customs arrangement whereby the UK would collect tariffs on behalf of the EU so there wouldn't need to be a hard border in Northern Ireland thus protecting the Good Friday Agreement. The Mogg amendment says the EU must do it for the UK too or no deal
The EU has already said no to that. So Jacob Rees-Mogg and his ERG extremists have just put a poisoned pill in the #TradeBill which not only pushes us towards No Deal, but threatens to rip up the Good Friday Agreement.
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Does the UK hold all the cards? (Thread)
We certainly were told we hold all the cards.
Yet when the EU proposed a fall-back position which went some way to solving our problems, people lost their minds, as if the UK has no power in this.
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