European Institutions

  • UK Denies EC Estimate on Unpaid Customs Duty

    April 17, 2018

    The BBC reports that the UK government has rejected an estimate from the European Commission (EC) that Britain owes 2.7 billion euros in "unpaid customs duty" to the EU over shoes and textiles imported from China, potentially setting up a legal complaint from the EC before the Court of Justice of the EU.

  • UK Official Pushes for EU Deal on Financial Services

    April 17, 2018

    UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has warned that the British Government could reject any post-Brexit trade deal that does not include provisions for access to financial services, asserting that excluding this area would not result in a "fair and balanced deal."

  • Article: Franco-German Proposals Risk Unraveling EU

    April 17, 2018

    Corey Cooper of the Council on Foreign Relations writes that Franco-German proposals for accelerated centralization of policy-making in Brussels "are not based in political reality" and asserts that only "inclusive and democratic" reform, on a gradual basis, will succeed in uniting Europeans behind the EU project.

  • EU Legislators: Brexit Transition Must Respect Free Movement

    April 16, 2018

    The Independent reports that leaders of the major European Parliament political groupings have backed a motion demanding that the UK respect in full the EU's principle of freedom of movement during any post-Brexit transition period, meaning citizens of EU countries could move to the UK and potentially claim a right to remain after the transition.

  • EP Report Seeks Post-Brexit UK-EU Regulatory Convergence

    April 16, 2018

    Politico reports that Members of the European Parliament (EP) have drafted a resolution calling for the UK to accept a "binding convergence mechanism" requiring it to abide by EU rules and judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) as part of any comprehensive post-Brexit trade deal with the bloc.

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