European Union

The Euro 2016 European football championship kicks off on Friday. A security force of 90,000 police, soldiers and private security agents will be deployed to ensure safety at the event. Never before has there been such a focus on security at a football championship. The press also hopes the matches will play out without incident - not least because this would calm tensions in the host country.

The Swiss have clearly rejected the universal basic income in a referendum: around 77 percent opposed it while 23 percent voted for the initiative. Commentators argue that now would have been the right time to ensure that people have an income that covers their basic needs.

At least eleven people were killed on Tuesday in the third major terrorist attack to hit Istanbul within the last six months. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blamed the PKK for the bombing but ultimately it is he who is responsible for the wave of terror in Turkey, commentators point out.

Depesme and Kerrou
Freedom of movement for persons
Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage

Depesme and Kerrou
Freedom of movement for persons
Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage

Depesme and Kerrou
Freedom of movement for persons
Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage

Pesce and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
The Commission may require Member States to remove all plants capable of being infected by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium, even when there are no symptoms of infection, when such plants are in the vicinity of plants already affected by that bacterium

Pesce and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
The Commission may require Member States to remove all plants capable of being infected by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium, even when there are no symptoms of infection, when such plants are in the vicinity of plants already affected by that bacterium

Pesce and Others
Agriculture and fisheries
The Commission may require Member States to remove all plants capable of being infected by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium, even when there are no symptoms of infection, when such plants are in the vicinity of plants already affected by that bacterium

EGEDA and Others
Approximation of laws
The copyright directive precludes fair compensation due to authors for private copying of their works from being financed by a budgetary scheme such as that established in Spain

EGEDA and Others
Approximation of laws
The copyright directive precludes fair compensation due to authors for private copying of their works from being financed by a budgetary scheme such as that established in Spain

EGEDA and Others
Approximation of laws
The copyright directive precludes fair compensation due to authors for private copying of their works from being financed by a budgetary scheme such as that established in Spain

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EU Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs meet in Luxembourg on 9-10 June 2016 to discuss the supply of digital content and the regulation on a European public prosecutor's office. They are also to reach a political agreement on regulations on matrimonial property regimes and property consequences of registered partnerships. Issues related to criminal justice in cyberspace are also being discussed. In the Home Affairs session, The Council is discussing several security and migration-related issues. It is also addressing visa liberalisation.

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