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Austrian Leader Seeks EU Border Security Focus
April 17, 2018
Reuters reports that Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has pledged to use his country's term holding the rotating presidency of the EU to emphasize border security of the bloc and move away from mandatory refugee resettlement policies that have rankled Eastern EU member states.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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