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The Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that there will be a ban on Russian-registered passenger vehicles starting in the upcoming weeks. The ban includes all Russian vehicles with nine or fewer seats. However, buses and small passenger vans can cross into Norway from Russia. Additionally, Finland, Estonia, Poland and Latvia have a [...]

At least 79 people have been declared dead and hundreds more are missing in what Greece is calling one of the biggest ever migrant tragedies in its waters. The boat was first spotted in distress off the coast of Pylos, Greece on Tuesday morning. The boat then capsized, causing the Greek coast guard to mount [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Tara O’Sullivan is a law student at Maastricht University. She files this dispatch from Maastricht, Netherlands. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued an Opinion on two legislative proposals from the [...]

The mass exodus of women and children from Ukraine has sparked the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.  More than three million refugees have poured out of Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country on February 24. Upwards of 1.8 million of those refugees have crossed into Poland. And [...]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed several sanctions waivers on Friday related to Iran’s atomic program reversing former President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the same. The move is being seen as an attempt to persuade Iran to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. Titled the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the deal was [...]

The US Department of Justice issued a statement Thursday explaining its charges of “conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy” against four Belarusian government officials for diverting a Ryanair flight in May 2021 allegedly for arresting a dissident Belarusian journalist who was on board the plane. The United States has claimed jurisdiction in the case as there [...]

The European Commission said Thursday that German automakers BMW, Daimler and the Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen, Audi and Porche) violated EU antitrust laws by colluding to restrict the deployment of cleaner emissions technology in diesel passenger cars. The Commission imposed a fine of €875 million on BMW and the Volkswagen Group. According to the Commission, between [...]

A joint statement from the US, Canada, UK and EU on Monday announced the imposition of new, “coordinated sanctions” against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime and its “continuing attacks on human rights, fundamental freedoms, and international law.” The new and comprehensive sanctions on Belarusian individuals and entities follow last month’s forced landing of a Ryanair [...]

UN human rights experts on Monday demanded the release of Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich and an end to the imprisonment and mistreatment of all independent journalists and activists in Belarus, declaring that “media freedom … has entered a black hole with no end in sight.” Last month, a Ryanair passenger jet carrying Protasevich and his [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has demanded the immediate release Tuesday of Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega after their passenger flight was forced to land in Minsk Sunday. Ryanair flight FR4978, carrying Protasevich and Sapega, was forced to divert to Minsk shortly before it crossed [...]