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Observer Questions Democratic Legitimacy of EU Integration
July 24, 2017
In a recent article, author Andrew Spannaus analyzes the history of attempts by EU and national officials to avoid the results of popular votes rejecting transfers of power to the supranational organization and questions the democratic legitimacy of the bloc's ultimate goal of becoming a "United States of Europe."
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ECJ: Parent of EU Citizen Has Brought Right to Remain
July 24, 2017
EUobserver reports on a recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) in which the Court held that a parent who is the main caregiver to a child who is an EU citizen has the right to remain in the bloc, as that parent's removal from the EU could require their child to leave and lose access to EU rights and benefits.
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Bundesbank Rejects Push to Lure UK Bank Business
July 24, 2017
Politico reports that a board member of Germany's central bank, Andreas Dombret, has announced that the Bundesbank will not pursue a strategy of luring British banks to Germany following Brexit using campaigning or perks because the bank's top priority is maintaining stability in the European banking system.
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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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