NormanH Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 [quote user="Patmobile"]Brussels has withdrawn the threat of legal action in the European Court. It's clear they have realised they have no winnable case. As predicted by....Patrick [/quote]The first sentence may be true (you have provided no link to prove it).The second has nothing to do with the first., and there is nothing clear about the case, as you would understand if you read French., or had a modicum of legal training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 [quote user="NormanH"][quote user="Patmobile"]Brussels has withdrawn the threat of legal action in the European Court. It's clear they have realised they have no winnable case. As predicted by....Patrick [/quote]The first sentence may be true (you have provided no link to prove it).The second has nothing to do with the first., and there is nothing clear about the case, as you would understand if you read French., or had a modicum of legal training.[/quote]I also agree that Padraig seems to confuse the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.In Deux-Sèvres we have a court in Niort; a European Court but not one of THE European Courts; just a modest indefinite article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 [quote user="Patmobile"]Brussels has withdrawn the threat of legal action in the European Court. It's clear they have realised they have no winnable case. As predicted by....Patrick [/quote]Pat, can you give us a link please, I would like to read this article. I have spent about 20 minutes searching through the French online papers and can't find anything but then that might be me. I would have thought a 'win' for France would have been spread all over the papers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patmobile Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 REUTERS "Viviane Reding, the EU's fundamental rights commissioner, dropped her previous accusation that the “disgraceful” policy amounted to illegal discrimination against gipsies. Instead, she warned France that it was in technical breach of EU law by failing to properly incorporate a 2004 free movement directive into national law, a substantial softening of her previous position.“The Commission accepted France’s assurances that the measures taken have neither the aim nor the effect of targeting a specific 'minority’ and that French authorities apply EU law in a non-discriminatory fashion,” said a two-page statement.The case has strained relations between Paris and Brussels after an angry confrontation between Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, and senior Commission officials at an EU summit on Sep 16.Mrs Reding was forced to withdraw her comparison of the Roma policy with Vichy France’s Second World War collaboration with Nazi round-ups of ethnic minorities after President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded an apology for a “disgusting and shameful attack on the honour of France”.Eric Besson, the French immigration minister, proclaimed victory for France."Brussels lawyers, at great expense, no doubt, have advised that though France is in technical breach of EU law, there is no Human Rights case to answer. I could have saved them the time and (most of) the expense PatrickPS: NormanH, I read, write and speak French, English and German and have at least "a modicum" of legal training, but it wouldn't take a multilingual international lawyer to find the flaws in the EU's "case". I never said what Sarkozy did was nice, just that he, and France, broke no laws and infringed no-one's human rights. Their human dignity, maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Thanks for that although the latest news does say that its a reprieve so that France can get evidence together prior to hearing. So the case will still go ahead. Probably a misread by the reporter at Reuters at the time. [;-)]http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68S3IQ20100929 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 I am pleased to see that the Dwarf will be changing french law to accord with the European Directive whose complete incorporation into french had been "overlooked".[:D]http://www.20minutes.fr/article/609289/monde-roms-france-disposee-modifier-droit-national-satisfaire-ue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 The European Commissioner for Justice has given a guarded welcome to the french proposal to change French National Law.http://www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/609445/monde-roms-reding-salue-initiative-france-modifier-legislation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibault Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 [quote user="pachapapa"]I am pleased to see that the Dwarf will be changing french law to accord with the European Directive whose complete incorporation into french had been "overlooked".[:D]http://www.20minutes.fr/article/609289/monde-roms-france-disposee-modifier-droit-national-satisfaire-ue[/quote] I assume that you are using the word "Dwarf" as a term of abuse - I thought this type of discrimination was both legally and morally "beyond the pale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 And why bring Bernie Ecclestone into this ?John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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