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NGO: EU Treaty Change Should Empower Non-Euro Countries
September 14, 2015
The think tank Open Europe has published a report pushing for reforms to EU treaties that would safeguard the rights of non-eurozone EU member states by not requiring them to join the single currency, granting them more voting power to overturn EU proposals, and by permitting them to appeal proposals from eurozone countries.
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EU Seeks Self-Promotion Funds
September 09, 2015
POLITICO reports that the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is pushing to budget 26 million euros in funding for a publicity campaign that would promote the EU and its priorities in 2016.
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Governments Warn of Negative Effects of EU Securities Rules
September 03, 2015
The finance ministries of the UK, Germany, and France have warned that new transparency rules on securities and investment research from the European Securities and Markets Authority could be too broad and "overly prescriptive" and thus harm securities trading in the bloc.
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ECtHR: Italy's Detention of Migrants Violated Human Rights
September 02, 2015
The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") has ruled that the Italian government violated the rights of a group of Tunisian migrants, during an influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East, by holding them in what the ECtHR considered to be "degrading" conditions on the island of Lampedusa pending their expulsion.
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French Call for EU Integration Meets German Skepticism
September 02, 2015
Reuters reports that German officials have responded to calls from French economy minister Emmanuel Macron for an EU commissioner with the authority to coordinate economic policy and fiscal transfers with warnings against such "fundamental" centralization of the bloc.
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