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Weekly legal news from the EU and RussiaEuropean Parliament demands sanctions against Putin’s inner circle and Russian oligarchs over Navalny’s detention
The European parliament has adopted a resolution calling on EU member states to “significantly strengthen” sanctions against Russia and stop work on completing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in response to the arrest of opposition figure Alexey Navalny.Source: Meduza
Kaja Kallas to become Baltic nation’s first female prime minister
Estonia’s two biggest political parties clinched a deal to form a new government to be led by a female prime minister for the first time in the Baltic country’s history, replacing the previous Cabinet that collapsed into a corruption scandal.Source: Euronews
EU lawmakers call for targets to reduce raw material use
Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee will call for legally-binding targets to reduce raw material use.Source: Euractiv
Hungary orders LGBT publisher to print disclaimers on children’s book
Hungary’s government, which has made hostility to LGBT people a central part of its right-wing agenda, ordered a publisher to print disclaimers identifying books containing “behaviour inconsistent with traditional gender roles”.Source: The Guardian
French roosters now crow with the law behind them
French lawmakers passed a bill to preserve “the sensory heritage of the countryside,” after a series of widely publicized neighborhood spats in France’s rural corners, many of them involving noisy animals.Source: The New York Times
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Legal Dialogue Journal is an online platform for robust conversations about legal issues for lawyers, law students, grassroots activists, NGOs, and the engaged general public in the European Union and Russia.
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Key developments in public interest law, in your inbox
A monthly brief overview of the key developments in public interest law in the EU and Russia — just the highlights, and exclusively for our subscribers.☛ Here's an example.