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2014 May 13 |
Europe's highest court said people should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a Google search of their own name online. The European Court of Justice (ECI) embraced the idea of a digital “right to be forgotten.” It found in favor of a Spanish man who wanted Google to remove old references to his history of indebtedness. Links: EU, Internet, ECJ 
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2015 Oct 6 |
Europe's top court ruled that data stored on US servers is potentially unsafe because of government spying, a blow to companies such as Facebook that might need to change the way they handle private data from the region. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the “safe-harbor” privacy pact between the European Union and America. It was originally signed in 2000 to bridge cultural and political differences regarding online privacy. Links: USA, EU, Internet, ECJ
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2015 Dec 2 |
Slovakia filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice against a European Union decision to redistribute 120,000 asylum seekers among member countries. Links: EU, Slovakia, ECJ
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2016 Feb 18 |
The European Union's top court ruled that the EU unfairly froze the funds of Iran's Bank Mellat for six years when it claimed the bank was backing the Islamic Republic's nuclear and missile programs. The EU lifted the freeze in January as part of an international agreement over Iran's nuclear program. Links: EU, Iran, Banking, ECJ
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2016 May 4 |
The European Union's top court dealt a blow to the tobacco industry by approving sweeping new rules that will require plain cigarette packs, ban menthol cigarettes and regulate the growing electronic cigarette market. Links: EU, Smoking, ECJ
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2016 Sep 21 |
The European Court of Justice said Britain failed to respect European Union limits on nitrogen oxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant in Wales. The European Commission had launched an inquiry in May 2012 into the environmental credentials of the Aberthaw plant and took Britain to court in March 2015. Links: Britain, EU, Environment, ECJ
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2016 Oct 19 |
The European Court of Justice ruled that internet-protocol addresses are subject to Europe’s data protection laws. Links: EU, Internet, ECJ
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2016 Dec 21 |
The European Union's high court said that EU agreements on closer ties and trade with Morocco should not apply to the disputed Western Sahara region. Links: EU, Morocco, Western Sahara, ECJ
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2016 Dec 21 |
Spanish banks faced the prospect of having to pay back several billion dollars to clients following a European Court of Justice ruling over mortgage agreements that insured that interest rates did not fall below a certain level. Links: Spain, EU, Banking, ECJ
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2017 Mar 14 |
The European Union's top court ruled that companies may bar staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visible religious symbols under certain conditions, setting off a storm of complaint from rights groups and religious leaders. Links: EU, Fashion, ECJ
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2017 Jun 21 |
The highest court of the European Union ruled that courts can consider whether a vaccination led to someone developing an illness even when there is no scientific proof. Links: EU, Medical, ECJ
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2017 Jul 28 |
The European Union's top court ordered Poland to immediately halt large-scale logging in an ancient protected forest, one of many cases that has pitted Brussels against the right-wing eurosceptic government in Warsaw. Links: EU, Poland, Trees, ECJ
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2017 Jul 31 |
Poland said it would press on with logging the country's primeval Bialowieza forest in defiance of a ruling by the European Union's top court, saying it needed to cut down trees to defeat insect pests. Links: Poland, Trees, ECJ
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2017 Sep 6 |
The European Union's highest court ruled that EU states must take in a share of refugees who reach Europe, dismissing complaints by Slovakia and Hungary and reigniting an angry row between east and west. Links: Hungary, EU, Slovakia, Migrant, ECJ
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2017 Dec 13 |
The Dutch government said it is joining Austria's lawsuit against Germany at the European Court of Justice over plans for a road toll for foreign drivers. Links: Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Lawsuit, ECJ
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2017 Dec 14 |
Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland will respect the ruling of the European Union's top court on whether the government can continue logging in the primeval forest of Bialowieza that is under an EU environment protection plan. Links: EU, Poland, Trees, ECJ
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2017 Dec 20 |
The European Union's top court ruled that the bloc's divorce regulations don't cover private agreements, throwing a case back to a Munich court to decide whether to recognize a divorce granted under religious Sharia law to a couple who are both Syrian-German. Links: Germany, EU, Sociology, Religion, ECJ
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2017 Dec 20 |
European Court of Justice struck down Uber's arguments that it is an information services company, ruling that it should be regulated like a transport company within EU member nations. Links: EU, ECJ
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2018 Feb 22 |
Staunchly anti-nuclear Austria lodged a legal complaint with the European Court of Justice against the EU's March approval of the expansion of a nuclear plant in neighboring Hungary. Links: Austria, EU, Nuclear, ECJ
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2019 Jun 18 |
The EU's highest court (ECJ) ruled that a planned German highway toll for cars discriminates against foreign drivers and breaches European Union law, forcing Berlin to rethink how to charge road users. Links: Germany, EU, ECJ
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2019 Nov 12 |
The EU's top court (ECJ) ruled that goods from Israeli settlements must be labelled as produced in occupied territory, a decision hailed by Palestinians and condemned by Israel, which said it would try to persuade countries to ignore it. Links: EU, Israel, Palestine, ECJ
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2019 Nov 19 |
The European Union's top court ruled that there are reasons to question the independence of a new judicial chamber in Poland that monitors and potentially punishes judges. However, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) left it to Poland’s highest court to determine whether the new Disciplinary Chamber is independent of influence from the nations’ legislative and executive powers. Links: Poland, ECJ
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2020 Apr 8 |
The European Court of Justice ordered Poland's government to immediately suspend a new body set up to discipline judges, saying the chamber did not guarantee independence of impartiality of its verdicts. Links: Poland, ECJ
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2020 Jul 16 |
A ruling by the EU Court of Justice saw the "EU-US privacy shield" invalidated due to concerns over the privacy of Europeans, with the court suggesting US surveillance laws were too far-reaching. Links: USA, EU, ECJ
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2020 Sep 24 |
Europe's top court (ECJ) issued a ruling that should ensure Germany can keep in prison Christian Brueckner, a new suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a Portuguese resort 13 years ago. Links: Germany, EU, ECJ
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2021 Mar 4 |
The European Court of Justice said the UK has "systematically and persistently" broken air pollution laws in its first ruling against the UK since Brexit. Links: Britain, Environment, ECJ
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2021 Dec 14 |
The European Court of Justice said a child with two mothers certified in one EU nation must also be recognized by the other EU members as such. Links: EU, ECJ
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2022 Feb 16 |
The European Court of Justice dismissed challenges by Poland and Hungary to a new tool that would cut funding by the 27-nation bloc for members that flout democratic values. Links: Hungary, EU, Poland, ECJ
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2022 Jul 12 |
EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said the European Union has so far frozen 13.8 billion euros ($13.83 billion) worth of assets held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned for Moscow's war against Ukraine. Links: Russia, Ukraine, EU, ECJ
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