Recent EU news
Latest items of recent news relevant to the European Union as reported in our fortnightly newswire.
European Union: High-level corruption continues
The European Commission (EC) has published a report highlighting the continued incidence of high-level corruption, organised crime and failure of the rule of law in Bulgaria …
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European Union: No breach of privacy for accessing personal internet correspondence
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has found that a company was not breaching an employee’s privacy rights by accessing Internet correspondence that had taken place during working hours …
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European Union: Agreement reached over new data protection regulations
After three years of negotiations the European Union (EU) Parliament, Council and Commission have finally reached agreement on new European data protection rules …
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European Union: Governments increase the cost of highly-skilled foreign labour
Minimum salary thresholds for highly-skilled employees who are non-EEA citizens will be increased in a number of European countries in the New Year, thus raising labour costs for employers …
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European Union: Latest tax and social security statistics
The EU Statistical office has finally issued statistics for the tax take in 2014 …
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European Union: ECJ broadens the scope of the Collective Redundancies Directive
According to a recent ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), an employee resignation could fall under the scope of the Collective Redundancies Directive (the Directive) if the employee resigned as a result of significant changes being unilaterally imposed on them by their employer, to the detriment of the employee …
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European Union: More women than men achieving tertiary education
Some years ago the European Union established its 2020 strategy which included the headline target of 40% of the population of 30-34 year olds achieving tertiary educational attainment …
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European Union: Average hourly labour costs statistics Q2 2015
Average hourly labour costs increased by 1 …
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European Union: Sickness absence — a cultural disease?
The incidence of sickness absence for work-related medical conditions varies a great deal across the European Union, as does the number of working days lost …
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European Union: The dynamics of EU immigration flows
The number of first residence permits issued by European Union (EU) countries to third country nationals declined by 50,000 last year, compared with 2013 …
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European Union: EIOPA consults on pan-European pension product
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has drawn up a new type of model pan-European pension format that could remove an important barrier to employee mobility within the European Union …
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European Union: Support for poorer countries to improve working conditions
The European Commission has announced that the European Union will be providing an as yet undisclosed level of financial support for the G7’s ‘Vision Zero Fund’ …
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EU/USA: US Safe Harbour decision declared invalid
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared invalid the European Commission’s decision from 2000 that found United States safe harbour privacy principles to afford adequate protection of personal data transferred from the European Union …
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European Union: No breach of equal treatment
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Germany did not contravene the principle of equal treatment by denying a Swedish citizen unemployment benefits …
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