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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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ECJ Rejects Psychological Tests of Refugees' Sexual Orientation
January 29, 2018
Reuters reports that the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has held that EU member states are barred from performing psychological tests to determine whether asylum seekers are telling the truth about their sexual orientation.
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ECJ Rejects Trademarking "Vulgar" Film Name
January 29, 2018
AP reports that the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has upheld a decision by the EU Intellectual Property Office that a German company is not permitted to trademark the name of a popular film because it is "vulgar" and might "shock" consumers.
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UK Official Rejects Concerns of Post-Brexit "Vassal" Status
January 29, 2018
The Guardian reports that the UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis has rejected arguments from Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, head of the euroskeptic European Research Group, that the UK's acceptance of EU Court of Justice rulings during a post-Brexit transition period would make it a "vassal state," responding that the concerns are unfounded due to the period's limited duration.
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