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Trawler owners, their families and fishing representative organizations from across the country have taken part in a protest in Dublin city over quota cuts, the impact of Brexit and the European Union Common Fisheries Policy. A flotilla of 55 trawlers from all around the coast gathered at the entrance to Dublin Port before dawn and traveled up the River Liffey in convoy through the East Link Toll Bridge to Sir John Rodgerson’s Quay. It is the second such protest in recent weeks. In May, a flotilla of trawlers from the south, southwest and southeast of the country traveled to Cork...

The President of the unelected executive arm of the European Union (EU) has vowed to block all right wing populists from power across the continent, shortly after acquiring the power to exert “far-reaching sanctions” on elected governments.

The European Commission will on Wednesday propose a mandatory relocation system for asylum seekers, and will make it expensive for those EU countries that refuse to take part, according to an internal Commission document seen by POLITICO. It’s part of a planned shake-up of the bloc’s asylum rules that aims to ease the pressure on the EU countries at the bloc’s external borders. If the proposal becomes law, the EU country in which migrants first set foot would in principle have to process their asylum claims, but that country would no longer be obliged to host all of the migrants...

European nations that turn away refugees could be forced to pay roughly $300,000 in fines for each individual rejected, European Union officials are expected to announce Wednesday. The plan is part of the European Commission’s plan to overhaul its current asylum rules that neared collapse last year after more than a million refugees and migrants flooded across E.U. borders, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. The reshuffle is aimed at alleviating the strain on frontline nations, including Greece and Italy, that have grappled to absorb the heavy incursion of migrants. Officials who saw the proposal in advance said the fine would...

Athens, Greece, Dec 4, 2009 / 06:55 am (CNA).- The head of the Greek Orthodox Church has voiced his opposition to a court ban on crucifixes in classrooms in Italy and will hold an emergency synod to lay out a plan of action to combat the ban. Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece said that the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) had ignored the role of Christianity in Europe’s history. According to the BBC, he added that majorities, not only minorities, have rights.The Orthodox Church fears the EHCR ruling could trigger similar rulings about the public display of...

BRUSSELS (PDM staff with CTK) 12 July - The European Commission (EC) sent its last warning to the Czech Republic yesterday concerning the implementation of the EU regulation against noise, which was to be part of Czech legislation by 18 June, 2004. The EC threatened to file a complaint against the country at the European Court of Justice unless it satisfactorily answers its letter in two months. In addition to the Czech Republic, the regulation has not been adopted by Austria, Belgium, Britain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal.