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Newspaper: Britain Must Trash EU "Red Tape"
March 31, 2017
The British newspaper The Telegraph has launched a campaign to pressure the UK government to use the occasion of leaving the EU to rid the country of "needless EU regulations," including the bloc's working time directive and some environmental standards, that restrain economic freedom in the country.
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UK, Gulf States Eye Post-Brexit Trade Deal
March 31, 2017
Reuters reports that officials in a number of Gulf Arab states, including those in the Gulf Cooperation Council, are preparing proposals for free trade deals with Britain to be agreed immediately after the country leaves the EU.
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Countries Weigh Participation in EU Financial Tax
March 31, 2017
Bloomberg reports that the proposal for an EU financial transactions tax, which requires the agreement of nine countries to be implemented under the bloc's "enhanced cooperation" procedure, is facing its potential demise as Belgium, Slovenia, and Slovakia consult their parliaments on continued participation in the legislation.
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EU, NGOs Create New Plan for "Social Rights"
March 31, 2017
Academics Claire Kilpatrick, Elise Muir, and Sacha Garben outline how EU institutions are consulting with nongovernmental organizations to shape legislation called the European Pillar of Social Rights into "a vehicle for a wide range of proposals on resetting Social Europe" and call for the development of the Pillar to be based on the principle of "social justice."
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EU Committee Seeks Common Health Policy
March 30, 2017
EurActiv reports that the EU Committee of the Regions has called on EU institutions to address a "disparity" in the quality of national health systems by working toward the harmonization, and centralization, of European health policy in Brussels.
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