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British MP Proposes Sunset Clause for EU Laws
October 26, 2016
In response to the UK Prime Minister's "Great Repeal Bill," which would translate EU laws into UK law following the UK's exit from the bloc, British Member of Parliament Grant Shapps has proposed a "sunset clause" that would automatically end the application of EU law in the UK five years after Brexit.
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UK Officials Spot Brexit Warning Signs in CETA
October 26, 2016
The Telegraph reports that UK officials are concerned with the implications of the staunch resistance of a Belgian region to the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement for future negotiations over a UK-EU trade deal following Brexit, as some British observers call for a clean break with the bloc to avoid paralyzing trade talks.
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Experts: US Must Combat Development of EU Army
October 26, 2016
Luke Coffey and Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation call for the US to discourage EU efforts to ramp up defense cooperation and move toward the formation of an EU army, arguing that such structures merely duplicate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and that Europeans should not grant war powers to "unelected, unaccountable, supranational bureaucrats in Brussels."
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Iceland Seeks UK's Return to EFTA
October 26, 2016
In recent remarks, Icelandic Foreign Minister Lilja Alfredsdottir said negotiating a post-Brexit return of the UK to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which the UK left to join the trade area that would become the EU, would be a priority of the country's chairmanship of EFTA in the coming months.
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ECtHR: Austria Violated Rights on Bank Scandal Reporting
October 25, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has found that the Austrian courts violated a newspaper's freedom of expression by upholding a civil claim against it for revealing the name of the manager at a bank, half of whose shares belonged to a state government, subject to criminal proceedings for approving speculative transactions.
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