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EU Leaders Support Brexit Delay
March 01, 2019
The Independent reports that President of the EU Council Donald Tusk and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar have supported a delayed Brexit, with the EU Council chief referring to a delay as a “rational” response to the failure of the EU and UK Prime Minister Theresa May to reach a withdrawal deal that is acceptable to the British Parliament.
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AU Opposes EU Plan for Extraterritorial Migrant Processing
March 01, 2019
The Guardian reports that a leaked paper from the African Union (AU) shows the multilateral organization is seeking to dissuade coastal African countries from participating in an EU plan to establish migrant processing centers in their territories, finding such a scheme would violate the international human rights agenda.
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May Offers UK Parliament Vote to Delay Brexit
February 27, 2019
NPR reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May has offered the House of Commons an opportunity to vote to delay Brexit for up to three months if they reject, in a series of votes in March, both the withdrawal deal she is negotiating with the EU and departure of Britain from the EU on WTO terms.
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EU Council Supports Restrictive Online Copyright Rules
February 22, 2019
Reuters reports that national officials from a majority of EU countries backed, over the objection of five member states, new copyright rules that will require internet companies including Facebook and Google to pay publishers to reproduce news snippets and to remove copyright-protected content from their platforms.
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Spain Hinders Brexit Visa Rules with Gibraltar “Colony” Reference
February 22, 2019
The Guardian reports that the Spanish government has stymied legislation that would permit visa-free travel by UK visitors to the EU in case of a no-deal Brexit by including in the relevant legislation a reference to Gibraltar as a British “colony,” causing the European Parliament to reject the rules.
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