Legal Dialogue

In the new package, the Commission proposes the annual screening of member states, with serious legal and financial consequences. The package was proposed in response to autocratic tendencies in Poland and Hungary and needs approval at the European Parliament and EU member states.
Source: Euronews

Part of the reason why the super-rich population has grown so much is that in 2012 the Mariano Rajoy government introduced a tax amnesty that uncovered €40bn in undeclared wealth.
Source: New Europe

A law requiring newly-nationalized Danes to shake hands with a representative at their citizenship ceremonies should be scrapped, say a number of Social Democratic mayors prior to the party’s upcoming national congress.
Source: thelocal.dk

Estonia’s hard-line interior minister has ordered a legal investigation into whether the Baltic nation could unilaterally remove the visa-free entry granted Ukrainian nationals by the European Union.
Source: apnews.com

A new report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) claims that Hungary misuses more European Union funds than any other country.
Source: emerging-europe.com

French MPs have started working on updating the country's bioethics laws, which if adopted, could change many women's lives.
Source: euronews.com

“Psychology for Human Rights” movement published an open letter expressing support for the corresponding bill of the working group at the Presidential Human Rights Council. The letter was signed by 73 organisations.
Source: novayagazeta.ru

The court in Saratov found six Jehovah's Witnesses believers guilty in organizing the activities of an extremist religious organization and sentenced them to imprisonment for up to 3,5 years.
Source: Reuters

Austrian lawmakers have voted to provide access to Austrian citizenship for descendants of people who were forced out of the country by the Nazis. Great-grandchildren of Nazi victims would also be eligible.
Source: Deutsche Welle