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Visegrad Leaders Push for Narrowed EU Focus
January 30, 2018
AP reports that, at a recent meeting, leaders of the countries in the Central and Eastern European Visegrad Group voiced their support of EU focus on infrastructure, defense, technology, and employment rather than moving toward a "United States of Europe" that centralizes decision-making on matters such as migration within supranational institutions.
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UN Agent Demands EU Response to NGO Rules
January 30, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Michael Forst has called on EU institutions to respond to tightened restrictions on nongovernmental organizations imposed by some member governments by boosting direct EU funding for civil society within the bloc.
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UK Officials Preview "Enhanced Equivalence" Deal with EU
January 30, 2018
Bloomberg reports that both the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and Brexit Secretary David Davis have predicted that their government will strike a Brexit deal with the EU creating an "enhanced equivalence regime" under which the country will remain close to EU financial and other rules for the indefinite future.
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Shankar: UK Must Stay out of Customs Union with EU
January 30, 2018
Aarti Shankar of the UK think tank Open Europe has countered the assertion by the Confederation of British Industry that Britain must form a comprehensive new customs union with the EU after Brexit, warning that doing so means the UK would have to accept EU common market rules and trade deals with new markets without having a say in their creation.
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ECJ Permits Facebook Privacy Lawsuit to Proceed
January 29, 2018
AP reports that the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has permitted an Austrian privacy activist to launch a lawsuit against the Irish subsidiary of tech giant Facebook for the company's alleged violation of EU laws governing his privacy rights, though he cannot initiate a class-action lawsuit based on these claims.
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