European Union

How could Europe come so close to splitting up over the question of how to deal with immigrants? Commentators examine the reasons, looking to the past but also analysing potential solutions.

The exuberant mood during the World Cup tournament and the unexpected victories of the Russian team have left many Russians in a state of euphoria. Those who oppose the government have been plunged into a moral dilemma over the question of whether Russia's football fever automatically turns them into Putin fans.

After two girls who had been declared missing were found dead - apparently after having been sexually abused - Turkish society is up in arms. The daily Cumhuriyet reported that over the last ten years the number of abuse cases has increased sevenfold compared to the previous decade. Turkish media discuss preventive measures and punishment for offenders.

Thousands demonstrated in Warsaw on Tuesday after additional components of Poland's controversial judicial reform came into force. The reform includes the forced retirement of 27 of the country's 73 Supreme Court judges. The EU launched an action against Poland in January 2016 and introduced a new infringement proceeding at the start of the week. Will the PiS government push the measure through despite the resistance?

Greece’s conservative main opposition party “recommended” to EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici to be “more careful” in his public speeches when he praises the government and the country’s exit from the bailout.

The 24 June elections marked the start of a new term in the Turkish Republic’s political history as the elections completed the transition from a parliamentary to a presidential system. The result of these elections could affect Turkey's relations with the EU, writes Seda Gurkan.

Generalstaatsanwaltschaft (Conditions de détention en Hongrie)
DFON
Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona proposes that the Court should rule that the existence, in the State issuing a European arrest warrant, of judicial remedies against possible inhuman or degrading treatment is a relevant factor allowing such a risk to be discounted and that, consequently, there are, in principle, no exceptional circumstances capable of justifying the non-execution of that arrest warrant

Kuhn
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Advocate General Bot proposes that the Court of Justice rule that the ‘Brussels Ia’ Regulation is not applicable in determining which Member State’s courts have jurisdiction to rule on claims brought against the Greek State by an individual holding Greek sovereign bonds following their forced exchange in exceptional circumstances and under exceptional conditions

Wirth and Others
Transport
In the case of long delay of a flight, the air company which must pay the compensation owed to passengers is not the air company which leased the aircraft and its crew, but the air company which decided to perform the flight