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UK Committee Seeks Tight Bonds with EU on Energy, Climate
July 13, 2017
The UK House of Commons' Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee recently issued a report calling on Britain, as part of its Brexit strategy, to bind itself to the EU's internal energy market, the atomic energy community Euratom, and the EU's carbon emissions trading market after its departure from the bloc.
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Official: ECJ May Monitor Future UK-EU Security Cooperation
July 13, 2017
The Guardian reports that Sir Julian King, the EU official from the UK who handles the European Commission's security agenda, recently warned that maintaining access to the current structure of security and law enforcement cooperation in the EU would require post-Brexit Britain to effectively accept the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) over some of its decisions.
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UK Official Criticizes Scottish Calls to Remain in EU Market
July 13, 2017
Reuters reports that, prior to the recent British general election, the UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis warned in a letter to the Scottish government that there were "clear barriers" to calls from Scotland to remain in the EU "single market" even after the departure of the rest of the UK that would result in "significant disruption to the internal UK market."
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CoE Official Pushes Economic, Social Rights in Slovenia
July 12, 2017
In a "country visit report" calling on Slovenia to reject legislation that would reduce the acceptance of asylum applications, avoid "austerity measures," and increase the minimum wage, the Council of Europe's (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks illustrates the expanding focus of the CoE on fulfilling the global agenda for "economic, social, and cultural human rights."
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MEP Threatens to Veto UK Deal over EU Citizens Proposal
July 12, 2017
Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s (EP) Brexit coordinator, has warned that the EP will veto any Brexit deal between the EU and UK containing Britain's current proposal for permitting EU citizens to remain in the country, characterizing the UK proposal as relegating EU nationals to the status of "second-class citizens" and calling for EU courts to retain jurisdiction in British territory.
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