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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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Italy Challenges EU Control over National Priorities
August 31, 2018
An article in The Economist characterizes the Italian government’s ongoing dispute with the EU over the redistribution throughout the multinational bloc of migrants arriving in Italy as one flashpoint in a broader conflict in which the country is challenging the EU’s control over national budgetary and other priorities.
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Article: Greek Travails Reveal Drawbacks of EU Technocracy
August 30, 2018
An article in The Economist characterizes the Greek bailouts, and the ongoing stagnation of the Greek economy, as an example of EU’s technocratic and undemocratic tendencies to impose misguided solutions on struggling member states and to defer the most difficult decisions until moments of crisis.
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