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UK Officials Predict EU Budget Demands
June 20, 2017
The Telegraph reports that UK officials are expecting EU negotiators to demand that Britain pay significant sums of money into the EU budget until the year 2020 - a year following the country's expected departure from the bloc - before Brexit talks can turn to negotiations over the future relationship between the UK and EU.
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UK Education Committee Seeks Residency Guarantee
June 19, 2017
A recent report from the UK House of Commons Education Committee calls on the British Government to unilaterally guarantee the residency rights of citizens of other EU countries working in UK higher education and to remove overseas students from migration targets at the start of the country's negotiation of its exit from the EU.
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CoE Monitoring Deals Blow to Turkish EU Bid
June 15, 2017
EurActiv reports that a recent vote by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) to reinstate the monitoring of democracy and fundamental rights in Turkey following the country's crackdown on a wide range of actors in response to a failed coup attempt last year has jeopardized Turkey's bid to become a member of the EU.
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EU Mounts Legal Challenges to Migration Resistance
June 14, 2017
Reuters reports that the European Commission has announced that it is opening a legal complaint against Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic for their refusal to accept the resettlement in their territory of a proportion of asylum seekers who have arrived in recent years in the EU from North Africa and the Middle East.
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EU Commission Pushes for Eurozone Treasury
June 07, 2017
CNBC reports that the European Commission has announced a set of proposals to hasten the full integration of the eurozone through the establishment of a common treasury for countries that use the euro currency, to be overseen by an EU finance minister, and by bundling national debts into common financial assets.
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