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London Bankers Seek UK-EU Regulation Monitor
May 26, 2017
The City of London Corporation’s International Regulatory Strategy Group has called for the British government to negotiate a deal on maintaining "equivalence" between EU and UK financial regulations to permit UK banks to retain access to the EU market, including by creating a UK-EU "committee or forum" that monitors regulatory changes.
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NGO: UK Parties Must Commit to ECtHR
May 25, 2017
Human Rights Watch recently published an article calling on all UK political parties to pledge in their manifestos to keeping the country within the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
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Initiative Expands EU Governance in Mediterranean
May 25, 2017
The European Commission has launched a new project to promote the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda in what it calls the "blue economy," or sea-based economic activity, of the Western Mediterranean by providing for "spatial planning" and "habitat conservation" in the region.
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ECB Board Member Seeks Completion of Banking Union
May 25, 2017
In a set of talking points for a panel on "relaunching the eurozone," member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) Peter Praet promotes the need for an "ambitious timetable" to complete the EU's "banking union" in order to provide for centralized supervision of banks and a financial "backstop" to cover the risks of failing financial institutions.
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EU Aims for Post-Brexit Eurozone Expansion
May 24, 2017
Reuters reports that the EU's economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici has previewed plans by the European Commission after Brexit to expand the eurozone by making the euro currency "attractive" enough that countries that have not yet adopted it view joining the currency as "an offer you cannot refuse."