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9 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read
The latest infringement proceedings brought by the EU Commission. Lots of developments in different areas, but here's some highlights...
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
Commission starts infringement proceedings against Germany due to national constitutional court refusing to accept primacy of EU law re ECB decisions
Commission starts infringement proceedings against three more Member States re EU law on racist hate speech and Holocaust denial
Asylum law: Commission begins proceedings against Hungary for alleged failure to comply with a recent judgment (this could lead to fines) as well as more on other alleged breaches
Race discrimination in education: Commission starts infringement proceedings against Hungary. Perhaps concerns about Roma people in particular - @hhc_helsinki can you confirm?
Interesting on EU citizenship: further action re Malta and Cyprus "selling" EU citizenship; two Member States brought to CJEU for refusing to let EU citizens join national political parties
Finally, back to Hungary again. The Commission starts proceedings for breach of EU law re non-renewal of a radio licence. This station has been described as one of the last independent radio stations in Hungary: edition.cnn.com/2021/02/09/eur…
An addition to the list of interesting new infringement proceedings. The CJEU ruled several times that data protection authorities were not independent enough as regards the previous data protection directive. This could be the first such case re the GDPR.

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10 Jun
CJEU, asylum law

New judgment clarifies when civilians fleeing armed conflict (in this case, in Afghanistan) can claim subsidiary protection due to a "serious and individual threat" to their life or person - interpreting the test broadly Image
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New judgment - Dutch law is not compliant with EU law where an asylum seeker makes a repeat asylum application, as it's too strict about how to define new evidence which can justify the new application: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
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New judgment - Austrian law requiring German-language proficiency in order to get housing benefit is in breach of EU law on long-term resident non-EU citizens (though not EU race equality law): curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
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9 Jun
New ruling of the EU General Court yesterday on whether UK citizens retain EU citizenship. It's not published yet but Julien kindly sent it to me, so I will summarise in this thread.
This is one of three cases directly challenging the validity of the withdrawal agreement (or rather, the Council decision concluding it) in the EU General Court. There are also two cases on the same issue sent to the CJEU from French courts.
The EU General Court said that this case was inadmissible because the applicant lacks standing to sue directly. Therefore it did not rule on the merits of the case.
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3 Jun
CJEU, rule of law

Hungary's legal challenge to the European Parliament triggering "rule of law" proceedings is admissible but fails on the merits, as the EP calculated votes correctly. (However, the Council has not acted on the EP's resolution...)
CJEU, sex equality law

New judgment in Tesco case comparing pay of workers in shops to other workers - cases pending against other supermarkets too - one of final cases from UK
Hungarian government's dog whistle rant about Soros, immigration (the EP resolution included many other rule of law issues), and EP breaking its own rules proved unfounded
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26 May
Summary of the Court of Appeal judgment on the immigration exception in data protection law
Full text of the Court of Appeal judgment on the illegality of the data protection exception in immigration law - well done to @the3million and @OpenRightsGroup - bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/…
Important not to overlook the *all* migrants point - the legal challenge was (jointly) brought by an EU citizens' group on the basis of EU law, but the illegality of the immigration exception to data protection law is also relevant to non-EU migrants:
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25 May
Remember this? When I debunked a viral FB post with crazy claims about EU law?

People often asked me who was the source of this stuff. Well...
...I haven't found out the source of *those particular* crazy claims. But thanks to @EmporersNewC I have some news about some *similar* crazy claims.
Last night someone tried to prove that FB post was correct by er, just quoting it again. But then she linked to the "eutruth" website. I followed the link and...
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24 May
UK government strategy paper on immigration policy now published -
gov.uk/government/pub…
One headline yesterday said EU citizens would be subject to travel authorisation. Misleading as some form of travel authorisation will apply to *all* visitors, except UK and Irish citizens.
There are no further details besides the scope and planned date of the rollout. Note that similar systems in the EU, US and Canada provide for a travel authorisation valid for several years, ie no need to apply for each visit during that period.
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