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European Commission Proposes Further Financial Integration
September 21, 2017
The European Commission has formally proposed several measures to further integrate banking and capital markets throughout the EU by granting new powers to supranational financial regulators, including the ability to expand funding by directly taxing regulated companies.
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NGO Warns that Brexit May Diminish Rights
September 21, 2017
Benjamin Ward of Human Rights Watch has expressed concern that UK citizens’ rights may not be protected if the UK Parliament follows through with its current proposal not to incorporate the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in domestic law after Brexit.
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Commentator: EU Investment Will Drive Integration
September 21, 2017
Columnist Leonid Bershidsky writes that, while nationalist politicians in Central and Eastern European EU member states may threaten to flout decisions of EU institutions and courts, their actual impact on continued EU integration will be limited because they cannot weather a withdrawal of Western investment from their economies.
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EU Advances Legal Process over Polish Judicial Changes
September 21, 2017
In the second step of legal proceedings asserting that a Polish law discriminates on the basis of sex in judicial retirement ages and gives the government too much discretion on the length of judicial terms, the European Commission has sent a "reasoned opinion" to Poland threatening to file a complaint in EU courts if the country fails to ditch its reforms within a month.
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Top Official Opposes Multi-Speed EU
September 21, 2017
Politico reports that, in his recent "State of the Union" address, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker opposed calls from Western European countries for a "multi-speed EU" in which some countries could transfer sovereignty to the bloc at a faster pace than others and included a "strong invitation" for all EU members to join the euro.
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