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CETA Delay Signals Future EU Trade Struggles
October 26, 2016
Paul Taylor writes that the delays and potential failure of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement due to the objections of a Belgian regional government show the difficulty of rallying the support of 28 different member states behind a single trade deal and signal the future struggles of EU leaders in negotiating external free trade agreements.
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Transnational Bodies Push "Social Rights" Agenda
October 26, 2016
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights announced its participation in a meeting of the Joint Collaborative Platform on Social and Economic Rights, a group including the Council of Europe, European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, and the European Network of Equality Bodies pushing for the recognition and monitoring of social and economic rights.
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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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