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UK Sees Rise in Support of “No Deal” Brexit
January 15, 2019
An article in The Washington Post explains a rise in support in recent months of the “no deal” Brexit option among UK euroskeptics who prefer the short-term risks of economic disruption to a withdrawal deal proposed by Prime Minister Theresa May, whose suggested “backstop” would arguably keep Britain within EU structures for an indefinite period of time.
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UK Ministers Eye Delayed Brexit in Case of Failed Withdrawal Deal
January 15, 2019
The Evening Standard reports that a group of unidentified UK Cabinet Ministers have indicated they would push for the delay of the UK’s exit from the EU in an “emergency crisis situation” following a defeat of the Prime Minister’s EU withdrawal bill in the House of Commons.
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Former UK Officials Warn Brexit Deal Threatens Security
January 15, 2019
A group of British security experts, including former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service Sir Richard Dearlove, has called on UK voters to convince their Members of Parliament to vote against the withdrawal deal Prime Minister Theresa May has struck with the EU because it would “place control of aspects of our national security in foreign hands.”
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EU Legislators Protest “Harmful” Treatment by US Government
January 15, 2019
NPR reports that members of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the US recently sent a letter to members of the US Congress protesting the Trump Administration’s “harmful approach” to US-EU relations after its decision to downgrade the status of the EU’s Mission to the US from a national delegation to an international organization.
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EU Bans “Unfair” Supermarket Trading Practices
January 11, 2019
The activist organization Oxfam has applauded new EU rules prohibiting supermarkets from using “unfair trading practices,” such as unilateral changes to orders and to supply agreements, in their dealings with food suppliers inside and outside the EU.