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CoE Criticizes Dutch Treatment of Migrants
October 17, 2014
The Council of Europe ("CoE") Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern over potential human rights violations related to the administrative detention of asylum seekers and criminal prosecution of children in The Netherlands.
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U.K. Commentators Debate Life Outside EU
October 17, 2014
An article in The Guardian contains competing perspectives on the consequences for the U.K. Government and economy of a British departure from the EU.
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UKIP Calls for 2015 EU Referendum
October 17, 2014
In a recent interview, leader of the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party ("UKIP") Nigel Farage says he will use UKIP influence in the British Parliament following next year's elections to move forward a referendum on U.K. membership in the EU to 2015.
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London Mayor Calls for Quotas on EU Migrants
October 17, 2014
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has called for the U.K. Government to place limits on the number of migrants from EU countries who are permitted to enter the U.K.
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Report Calls for EU Deregulation of Small Businesses
October 17, 2014
A report from a task force headed by former Bavarian leader Edmund Stoiber proposes the exemption of European small and medium enterprises from nearly all EU regulation of business practices.