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CoE Body Evaluates European Justice Systems
October 18, 2016
The Council of Europe's Commission for the Efficiency of Justice has published its latest report evaluating the efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of the national justice systems of CoE member states.
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Dempsey: EU Leaders Should Ditch Plans for Common Army
October 18, 2016
Judy Dempsey of Carnegie Europe writes that EU plans for a European army, over which the European Commission would exercise significant control, would needlessly duplicate structures of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and would divide EU countries at a time of strategic weakness.
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Czech Official Raises Brexit Veto Threat over Migration
October 18, 2016
Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis has asserted that his country might veto any post-Brexit deal with the UK that would permit the country to retain membership of the EU's "single market" without providing for freedom of movement for nationals of EU member states.
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EU Challenges Search Engines with Copyright Proposal
October 18, 2016
Heidi Tworek of the University of British Columbia warns that an EU proposal to translate German copyright law into supranational legislation that would require search engines such as Google to pay media companies for displaying brief snippets of their articles would be unenforceable and should give way to a more cooperative approach.
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Official: "Punishment" Approach to Brexit Will Harm EU
October 17, 2016
UK Secretary of State for Exiting the EU David Davis has warned EU leaders that any plan to punish Britain for leaving the bloc as a message to euroskeptics in other countries would likely backfire and lead to other governments choosing to hold their own votes on EU membership.