Legal Dialogue

Portugal will use its six-month presidency of the European Union to finalise a landmark law containing the bloc’s emissions-cutting targets.

Source: Reuters

Rome is facing pressure to abolish its offshore quarantine system for migrants and refugees following a series of alarming incidents, including several deaths, over the past year. Italy has isolated thousands of asylum seekers on ferries over the course of the pandemic.

Source: Politico

Felix Klein, Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner called for the removal of 29 Nazi-era paragraphs that remain in the country's laws.

Source: DW

More than 70,000 households have been made homeless since the start of the pandemic, with tens of thousands more threatened with homelessness, despite government pledges to protect tenants and prevent evictions.

Source: The Guardian

The activists want to bring their complaint to the ECHR against the Polish government after the Constitutional Court decided to ban abortion in cases of fetal damage. This decision is a potential violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Source: Wyborcza

Court says man would face ‘worsening of his respiratory pathology due to air pollution’ in country of origin.

Source: The Guardian

A criminal investigation into a Vatican real estate investment is exposing weaknesses in the city state’s judicial system and a lack of some basic protections for those accused highlighting the incompatibility of the Holy See’s procedures with European norms.

Source: Apnews

Mark Rutte's government has resigned over authorities accusing thousands of families of fraudulently claiming child welfare payments.

Source: DW

The test for the EU’s biodiversity strategy will be whether all EU legislation matches its ambition on nature protection.

Source: Euractiv