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EC Presents Action Plan on Military Mobility
April 03, 2018
As part of the body's bid to form a "Defence Union" by the year 2025, the European Commission (EC) has presented an action plan to coordinate with EU member states to improve military mobility with an aim "to tackle physical, procedural or regulatory barriers which hamper" movement by defense forces throughout the EU.
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Lawmaker: UK Must Prepare for "No Deal" Brexit
March 30, 2018
UK Member of Parliament David Jones writes that, after European negotiators presented a draft withdrawal plan including the EU's "annexation" of Northern Ireland as part of a common regulatory area, Britain should no longer assume Brexit talks will come to a satisfactory deal and must begin spending money to prepare for a "no deal" scenario.
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Academic: EU Is Fueling Conflict in Europe
March 30, 2018
Philip Cunliffe of the University of Kent argues that the EU has lately squandered its reputation as a peace project by stoking conflict through intra-eurozone economic tensions and interventions outside the bloc, including through its courting of Ukraine as an EU member, that have "brought war and strategic rivalry back to Europe."
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May Pushes for Inclusion of Financial Sector in EU Trade Deal
March 30, 2018
Reuters reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May has made clear that she wishes the financial-services sector to be included in any post-Brexit free-trade deal with the EU, despite negative responses to this proposal from EU negotiators.
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EU Brexit Adviser Rejects UK's Trade Approach
March 30, 2018
The Guardian reports that Stefaan de Rynck, the main adviser to the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, has opposed UK Prime Minister Theresa May's preferred approach of mutual recognition of standards in a wide-ranging free-trade deal with the EU, stating that the bloc has moved away from this model toward a "single EU rule book" following the financial crisis.
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