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FRA Pushes "Rights" Agenda in EU Security Efforts
November 22, 2016
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) recently hosted a meeting of EU leaders to discuss how to integrate the global human rights agenda in the supranational organization's efforts to build a centralized "security union."
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UK Opts into EU Law Enforcement Agency
November 16, 2016
The Telegraph reports that, as the UK government prepares to renegotiate its relationship with the EU following the June referendum vote to leave the bloc, British officials have decided to opt back into Europol, the EU law enforcement and intelligence-sharing agency over which the Court of Justice of the EU exercises jurisdiction, prior to Brexit.
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EU Council Approves Schengen Border Controls
November 16, 2016
The Council of the EU has approved a recommendation from the European Commission extending the time during which it would permit certain EU member states to maintain controls along limited stretches of their borders to the next three months and calling for these countries to limit these controls to what is "strictly necessary."
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EU Calls for More Action on Migrant Resettlement
November 16, 2016
In a recent progress report on the implementation of its mandatory program to resettle migrants in EU member states, European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos has called on countries to step up their resettlement efforts and "fully comply with their obligations" under the bloc-wide plan.
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EU Officials Agree to Non-NATO Military Cooperation
November 16, 2016
At a meeting in Brussels, a group of defense and foreign ministers from EU member states agreed to authorize a military plan called “permanent structured cooperation,” under which EU countries who wish to increase defense cooperation outside of North Atlantic Treaty Organization structures will be able to do so.