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UK Outlines Plans for "Great Repeal Bill" upon Brexit
April 05, 2017
The UK government has published a white paper on plans for a Great Repeal Bill that will replicate existing EU laws and regulations in British law at the time Brexit occurs and end the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU over the UK legal system.
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ECtHR Awards Remedy in Absence of Proper Claim
April 05, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that, in "exceptional circumstances" involving "serious" violations of European human rights law, it can award a remedy to a person it determines is a victim of such a violation even when that person fails to properly make a claim to the body for "just satisfaction."
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Visegrad Group Rejects EU Resettlement Policy
April 05, 2017
AP reports that leaders of countries in the Visegrad Group - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - have rejected calls from other EU member states to pressure them to comply with the bloc's rules on resettling migrants by withholding EU financial support from their governments.
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Newman: EU Members Can Achieve Trade Deal with UK
April 05, 2017
Henry Newman of the British think tank Open Europe outlines a number of major considerations and potential pitfalls in the upcoming negotiations between the UK and the EU and predicts that Britain stands a better chance at achieving a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU if it can coax other EU member states into taking on a muscular role in negotiations.
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NGO: EU Must Pressure Hungary on Refugee Detention
April 05, 2017
An article from Human Rights Watch calls on EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos to threaten to use a "legal enforcement action" to pressure Hungarian officials to reverse course on the country's policy requiring the detention of asylum seekers while they await a decision on their asylum application.
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