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UK Officials Seek Compromise on EU Rights Charter
December 19, 2017
The Guardian reports that British government officials are seeking to avoid a rebellion by Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party over legislation implementing Brexit by working with them to ensure the UK retains some provisions of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights after the country leaves the EU.
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EC Pushes for Common Education Policies
December 19, 2017
In November, the European Commission (EC) released a document pushing for the development by the year 2025 of a European Education Area that would, among other things, provide for recommendations from supranational institutions on curricula content in EU member states.
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EU Summit Focuses on Implementing "Social Rights"
December 19, 2017
At a "Social Summit" in Sweden in November, leaders from EU member states and institutions discussed how to implement the bloc's Pillar of Social Rights in an effort to bolster, in large part, labor and employment rights of Europeans, with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar stating that the goal of the Pillar is to move past the recent "excessive focus" on "economic matters."
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Lawyer: The City Should Not Fear a "No-Deal" Brexit
December 18, 2017
British lawyer Barnabas Reynolds of Shearman & Sterling explains why the "cliff-edge" no-deal-Brexit scenario dreaded by many London financial firms would in fact offer few obstacles to continuing to carry out transactions smoothly both with EU-based and non-EU-based customers.
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Poland Faces ECJ Penalties over Logging Operations
December 15, 2017
Reuters reports that the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) ruled in November that Poland would face a penalty of 100,000 euros per day if it continued to allow logging in an ancient forest recognized by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site pending a final ECJ ruling on the logging practices.
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