Court of Justice

Bulgaria's protest network has lit up the Court of Justice with a sign saying #Resignation.

The action was organized to demand the resignation of Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov and in support of the judicial reform to be executed in the country.

The full statement of EU Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Commissioner Jonathan Hill follows:

The Government on Wednesday passed a memorandum concerning the nomination of Romania's candidate for a judge office with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) under which incumbent judge Camelia Toader is re-nominated for office.

Photo credit: (c) Angelo BREZOIANU / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The European Union should sign up for the European Convention on Human Rights, but recent negative advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union is worrying, according to Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland.

The European Commission is taking Romania to its Court of Justice over a deadly 102-hectare pond that holds waste extracted from the copper and zinc mines in Moldova Noua, which it describes as abandoned and dangerous.

The European Union's highest court rejected on Thursday a German rule conditioning visas for Turks looking to reunite with their spouses to a basic knowledge of German.
      
The case was brought against Germany by Naime Doğan, who in January last year was refused a visa to join her husband, a 15-year German resident, by Germany's embassy in Ankara.
      

The European Court of Justice has overturned the EU Data Retention Directive, Tuesday.

The Directive allowed telephone and email providers to store private citizens' data en masse for scrutiny by investigators in later cases of serious crime.