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NGO Report Identifies “Alternative Arrangements” for Irish Border
June 24, 2019
The nongovernmental organization Prosperity UK has published a report identifying potential arrangements UK and EU leaders could pursue to ensure that Britain can establish an independent trade policy and that Ireland can avoid infrastructure along its border with Northern Ireland after Brexit.
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UK Lawmakers Push for Post-Brexit Trade Deal with India
June 24, 2019
The Guardian reports that the UK House of Commons’ foreign affairs committee has highlighted the opportunity of facilitating immigration by skilled workers and students from India to help secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the country after Britain withdraws from the EU.
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Central European Leaders Oppose EU Climate Target
June 21, 2019
Reuters reports that leaders from Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary refused to back the inclusion of a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050 in a final statement from an EU summit, citing the potential harm to their economies of a clampdown on fossil fuels.
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ECJ Adviser: Poland’s Judicial Retirement Changes Violate EU Law
June 20, 2019
Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) Advocate General Evgeni Tanchev has issued an opinion asserting that a Polish law lowering the retirement age of judges, including of the country’s Supreme Court, to 60 for women and 65 for men, violates EU laws on discrimination and judicial independence.
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EU Official Seeks Consequences for “Foot-Dragging” on Swiss-EU Deal
June 19, 2019
Bloomberg reports that European Commissioner for the EU’s “neighborhood policy” Johannes Hahn has called for the Commission to curb EU firms’ access to Swiss stock exchanges beginning in July if negotiators fail to make progress by that time on a framework agreement on Swiss-EU relations.
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