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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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ECtHR: Montenegrin Civil Immunity Rule Violates Rights
October 25, 2016
Basing its interpretation of international law on the provisions of a 2004 treaty neither the US nor Montenegro has ratified, the European Court of Human Rights has held that the refusal by Montegrin courts to permit former employees of the US Embassy in the country to sue the US for civil damages over their dismissal violated their human rights.
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NGO Analyzes Importance of EU Financial Services Access
October 25, 2016
A report from think tank Open Europe that reviews the weight the UK should give to each aspect of the EU's financial services "passport" in its negotiations with the bloc over a post-Brexit trade and investment agreement places greater emphasis on the maintenance of ties in the banking sector than on links in the asset management and insurance industries.
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