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Booth: UK Cannot Submit to Post-Brexit ECJ Authority
July 24, 2017
Stephen Booth of the British think tank Open Europe writes that demands contained in the European Commission's Brexit negotiating guidelines, released in early May, for the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) to maintain jurisdiction over EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit "are never going to fly" with the UK Prime Minister.
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Committee: Retain UK-EU Energy Relationship
July 21, 2017
The British Parliament's Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee recently called on the UK Government to remain in the EU's Emissions Trading System, which allocates permission to release set amounts of carbon emissions, and warned against a potentially "disastrous" exit from the EU's nuclear regulatory body following its departure from the bloc.
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CoE Committee Criticizes Austrian Minority Policies
July 21, 2017
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Advisory Committee to the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities has criticized Austria for its "inconsistent," non-centralized approach to the legal protection of a wide range of listed national ethnic minorities, including the lack of a central mandate on bilingualism.
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CoE Chief Warns of "Nationalist," "Xenophobic" Pressures
July 21, 2017
In a recent report on the status of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Europe, Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland called for CoE member countries "to take a serious look in the mirror" and evaluate the capability of their institutions to withstand pressures from "nationalist and xenophobic parties."
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Commission Warns Hungary over NGO Funding Law
July 21, 2017
The European Commission has sent a letter to the Hungarian government warning that the country's new law requiring greater reporting and registration requirements by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive foreign funding violates EU law and must be amended.
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