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UK Documents Outline Plans in Case of “No Deal” Brexit
September 05, 2018
The British government recently released a set of documents outlining how it plans to respond to a scenario in which UK officials are unable to strike a deal with the EU on a post-Brexit relationship by the time of the country’s withdrawal from the bloc in 2019, as talks over future trade and regulatory relations between the jurisdictions remain stalled.
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Study: OSCE Training Increased Ukrainian Judiciary’s Use of ECHR
September 04, 2018
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has cited analysis from the Institute of Applied Humanitarian Research indicating that Ukrainian judges who attended OSCE trainings on the application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) were far more likely following the training to refer to the ECHR in their judgments.
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UK Strikes Post-Brexit Trade Deals in Southern Africa
August 31, 2018
The Express reports that the UK government has struck a deal with Mozambique and the five members of the Southern African Customs Union to roll over their free-trade arrangements with the EU so they apply to trade with Britain after its withdrawal from the supranational bloc.
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EU Agency Calls for Integration of Environmental Strategies
August 31, 2018
A report by the European Environment Agency calling for the integration of EU policies on the “circular economy” and the “bioeconomy” to promote sustainability across the bloc highlights the increasingly centralized and homogenized approach EU agencies are taking to the fulfillment of the bloc’s international environmental commitments.
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EU Agency Seeks Removal of Free-Movement Restrictions
August 31, 2018
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights has published a report calling on national governments in the EU to halt restrictions on employment, housing, and education access of EU migrants to facilitate Europeans’ free-movement rights and pushing countries to ease EU migrants’ access to the polls by “removing administrative barriers such as proof of residence.”
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