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Scholar: Poland Moves Toward "De-Europeanisation"
September 19, 2017
Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations has produced an article asserting that recent developments in Poland concerning the country's courts and parliamentary procedure, along with criticism of EU institutions, signal an attempted "de-Europeanisation" by the ruling party that could harm the internal cohesion of the EU.
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UK MPs: EU Owes Britain €10 Billion
September 19, 2017
Business Insider reports that over 100 UK Members of Parliament (MPs) who form the euroskeptic European Research Group have produced a report asserting that the UK has no legal obligation to pay a "divorce bill" to the EU upon leaving the bloc, and instead could claim €10 billion from the EU for the country's share in the European Investment Bank.
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UK Paper Seeks Continued EU Science Ties
September 19, 2017
The UK government has published a position paper stating that British officials involved in Brexit negotiations will seek to agree "a far-reaching science and innovation agreement with the EU that establishes a framework for future collaboration" and permits the UK to continue to receive billions of pounds in research funding from the bloc.
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ECJ Rejects Challenge to Refugee Quotas
September 19, 2017
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) recently rejected a legal challenge from the governments of Hungary and Slovakia against an EU policy requiring the countries to accept the resettlement of a share of asylum seekers in their territory, finding that the EU had the authority to impose the quota system.
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CoE Anti-Torture Committee Urges Italian Prison Reform
September 19, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has released a report critiquing elements of the Italian penitentiary system it believes violate previous CoE recommendations, European Court of Human Rights case law, and the 1984 UN Convention on Torture.
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