Posts Tagged Viviane Reding
EqUality
Posted by Carolina Bracken in European Union on 19/07/2011
Businesses throughout Europe could see the EU seize control of their recruitment policy and transform the composition of their boards, under new plans to promote gender equality. Whilst the underlying aim is undoubtedly laudable, the plans will inevitably prove controversial at state level, and risk skewing recruitment away from merit-based selection.
Lending Support
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Civil Liberty, Crime, European Union, Human Rights on 25/05/2011
Although 30 million Europeans fall victim to crime each year, at an annual cost of some €250 billion, support for victims in the EU has long been woefully inadequate. However, extensive reform proposals published by the European Commission last week take important strides towards towards establishing a basic minimum level of care for victims of crime, and are undoubtedly deserving of praise.
Arrested Development
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Civil Liberty, Crime, European Union, Human Rights, Security on 20/04/2011
The European Commission has published its third report on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), and has catalogued a series of failures. During the course of its research, the Commission received complaints about the EAW not only from dedicated NGOs and lawyers, but also from national legislatures and even the European Parliament itself. Yet, while the report is the most critical to date, many of the criticisms should come as no surprise.
Car Crash Justice
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Civil Liberty, Economics, European Union, Human Rights, Politics on 03/03/2011
First the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), then the UK Supreme Court, now the European Court of Justice (ECJ); it seems that no court is free from attack. However, whilst the ECtHR should be criticised for its creeping expansionism, and the Supreme Court should not have been criticised at all, the ECJ’s latest ruling warrants rebuke for simply defying common sense.
A Little Less Conversation…
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Civil Liberty, European Union, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights on 28/01/2011
Human Rights Watch World Report 2011 has slammed the EU for its overreliance on dialogue rather than action in tackling human rights abuse, and for its “obsequious” approach to known rights violators. Whilst there is no inherent harm in cooperative dialogue, the EU seems “particularly infatuated” with this discursive model.
