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EU Official Calls for Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty
September 15, 2015
Klaus Regling, head of the European Stability Mechanism, has called for EU member states to give up sovereignty in the realm of monetary policy by contributing to the creation of a eurozone finance ministry and parliament.
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ECJ Issues Broad Interpretation of Working Time Limit
September 15, 2015
Business groups in the UK warn that a recent decision of the Court of Justice of the EU ("ECJ"), interpreting an EU directive that limits the amount of time people can work to apply to the travel of tradespeople from their homes to their customers, could foist higher costs upon EU companies.
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EU Revives Migrant Distribution Plan
September 14, 2015
In his annual State of the European Union address, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker proposed a plan to redistribute 160,000 migrants, most of whom are from North Africa and the Middle East, throughout countries in the EU.
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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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