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Minford: UK Should Ditch Plans for EU Trade Deal
August 05, 2016
Professor Patrick Minford of Cardiff University asserts that the UK's policy on leaving the EU should be to expand its economy by signing free trade deals with all other countries, unilaterally reducing its tariffs, and walking away from the EU without wasting time on attempting to negotiate a trade deal with the inflexible bloc.
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Open Europe: EEA Fails to Address Brexiters' Concerns
August 04, 2016
A briefing from UK think tank Open Europe explains why Britain's option of joining the European Economic Area in place of its membership of the EU would not address the reasons why most "Brexit" voters chose to leave the EU, including the inability of the UK to restrict immigration.
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EU Official Warns of Potential CETA Failure
August 02, 2016
Politico reports that EU Director-General for Trade Jean-Luc Demarty warned at a meeting of the bloc's trade policy committee that EU trade policy would lose credibility and be "close to death" if national parliaments did not ratify the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement that EU authorities negotiated with Canada.
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EU Prepares Centralization of "Social Rights" Policy
August 01, 2016
Politico reports that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is backing the preparation of a "European pillar of social rights" that will centralize decisions on labor and employment policy, including minimum wages and job training, in EU institutions.
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UK Peer Calls for Brexit Delay
August 01, 2016
The Independent reports that Baroness Wheatcroft of the British House of Lords has called for her body to delay any legislation that aims to trigger a British exit from the EU in order to encourage the launch of a second referendum on the UK's membership in the bloc.
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