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Spain Announces Support for EU Finance Minister, Budget
August 15, 2017
Spanish President Mariano Rajoy has announced that his government will support French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for greater economic and monetary integration of the EU through the creation of an EU finance minister and EU budget.
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UK Judge: Government Must Clarify Future Role of ECJ Rulings
August 15, 2017
The Guardian reports that President of the UK Supreme Court Lord Neuberger has called on the UK Parliament to clarify by statute whether UK judges should take rulings by the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) into account after Brexit.
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Opinion: Macron’s “Democratic Convention” Plan Could Backfire
August 15, 2017
Richard Youngs of Carnegie Europe argues that French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for member states to hold national “democratic conventions” on EU reform could backfire if the EU and its member states fail to adopt the resulting recommendations.
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UK Officials Signal Exit from EU Structures in 2019
August 14, 2017
The Guardian reports that UK International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and Chancellor Philip Hammond have announced that Britain will depart the EU's "single market" and customs union in 2019, even if Brexit negotiations lead to a limited transition period at that time in UK-EU relations, as leaving these EU structures will permit the UK to strike trade deals with non-EU countries.
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CoE Body Critiques Hungarian University Law
August 14, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) constitutional law body, the Venice Commission, has issued a preliminary opinion on a Hungarian law regulating the operation of foreign universities in the country asserting that, while the government could legitimately apply the law's requirements to new institutions, they are "unjustified" when applied to universities that are already in operation.
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