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CoE Chief Consults on EU "Social Rights" Plans
January 25, 2017
In his opinion welcoming the development by EU institutions of a European Pillar of Social Rights, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjørn Jagland calls on EU officials to incorporate within this Pillar the CoE's European Social Charter, which seeks to guarantee nontraditional social and economic "human rights" throughout Europe.
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UK Court: Parliament Must Trigger Brexit Process
January 25, 2017
The UK Supreme Court has held that, despite the outcome of a referendum held in June 2016 in which voters opted to leave the EU, constitutional principles do not permit the British Government to initiate negotiations on the country's exit from the EU without parliamentary approval.
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ECtHR Finds Faulty Court Interpretation of Criminal Law
January 25, 2017
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held that Slovenian courts violated the human rights of a prisoner by failing to properly resolve a legislative mistake in a criminal sentencing law, effectively reducing the prisoner's sentence by ten years, to the advantage of the prisoner.
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Australia Announces Trade Talks with UK
January 25, 2017
Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison has announced that Australia and the UK will begin "preparatory" talks this week on the development of a free trade deal between the countries that will enter into force following the UK's departure from the EU.
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UK Plans Post-Brexit Replication of Trade Regime
January 25, 2017
The UK's UN Ambassador in Geneva, Julian Braithwaite, has announced his government's plans to minimize any chance of objections at the World Trade Organization to Britain's trade policy as it departs the EU by, as far as possible, transposing the EU's existing trade arrangements with other countries into UK law.
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