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EU Commissioner: Farage Is "Right Too Often"
July 09, 2015
While he views the euroskeptic leader's solutions to the transfer of national sovereignty to Brussels as "morally completely unacceptable," EU Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans has conceded that UK Independence Party's Nigel Farage is "right too often" regarding the problems the EU faces.
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Hannan: EU Negotiation Must Focus on Restoring UK Sovereignty
July 08, 2015
British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan writes that amending EU treaties to remove the direct effect of EU legislation, thus restoring the UK's sovereign authority to make laws, must be part of any meaningful renegotiation of competences between the UK and the EU.
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Report: UK Can Only Control Migration Through EU Exit
July 08, 2015
The report "Change, or Go" published by the nongovernmental organization Business for Britain explains that the UK can only achieve meaningful control over the number of migrants entering the country - and the level of skills they bring - by leaving the EU.
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Conflict over EU Migrant Resettlement Spills over at Summit
July 08, 2015
EU member states rejected a mandatory quota scheme, proposed by the European Commission at a recent summit, for the resettlement of migrants entering Italy and Greece to other countries, instead agreeing to a "voluntary" resettlement of a small number of Eritrean and Syrian refugees in the bloc.
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EU Official Criticizes UK Renewable Energy Policy
July 08, 2015
BBC News reports that European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Canete has criticized the UK for withdrawing subsidies for new onshore wind farms, arguing that the policy shift will make it more difficult for the UK to meet its EU renewable energy targets by 2020.
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