"Lay all your hate on me"

Steve Peers As a response to 'UKIP Calypso', here's my lyrics to 'Lay all your hate on me'. I won't be singing it myself (believe me, you don't want that), but surely it's enough to bring Abba out of retirement?  I wasn't racist before we metNow every migrant I see is a potential threatAnd I'm a bigot, it isn't niceYou've heard me saying that smoking was my only viceBut now it isn't trueNow I hate the whole EUAnd all I've learned has overturnedI...

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All smoke and no fire in the EU strategy towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings

 Dr Matilde Ventrella, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Wolverhampton (UK) 1.       Introduction On October 17th, the European Commission published the mid-term Report on the implementation of the EU strategy towards the eradication of trafficking in human beings (THB) and a Communication on the application of Directive 2004/81 on the residence permit issued to third country nationals who are victims...

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New EU human rights reporting requirements for companies: One step beyond the current UK rules

Anil Yilmaz (Lecturer in Law, University of Brighton) and Rachel Chambers (PhD candidate, University of Essex)  BackgroundAmong the core objectives of the EU set out in Article 3(3) of the Treaty on the European Union is the creation of an internal market and sustainable development of Europe “based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress,...

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Cameron’s ‘emergency brake’: killing the free movement of persons, or saving it?

 Steve PeersImagine that pro-Europeans in Britain had a time machine, but only enough power to use it once. Where (or rather, when) should they go? There’s only one possible answer: they should go back to 2004, and move heaven and earth to convince the British government of the day not to allow immediate free movement of workers from all of the new Member States about to join the European Union. For despite the economic benefits of this decision,...

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The proposed General Data Protection Regulation: suggested amendments to the definition of personal data

Douwe Korff, Professor of International LawI.                    BackgroundIn a recent judgment (discussed previously on this blog) the third chamber of the CJEU has ruled that the concept of "personal data" in the 1995 data protection (DP) directive is limited to data directly relating to a person, and does not include legal analyses in the file on the...

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