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UK Official: No-Deal Brexit Tariff Plan Complies with WTO Rules
April 23, 2019
The Guardian reports that UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove has argued that waiving tariffs on goods crossing the Irish border in case of a no-deal Brexit would be legal under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules due to the special nature and needs of the Good Friday Agreement.
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UK Authorities: WTO Rules Protect Post-Brexit Energy Flows
April 23, 2019
According to Reuters, the UK’s National Grid has confirmed that electricity and gas flows between Europe and Britain would continue unabated under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules in case of a no-deal Brexit.
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EU Lawmakers Pass Copyright Rules on Internet Content
April 22, 2019
Business Insider reports that the European Parliament has adopted new rules placing more responsibility on internet platforms to police user content to ensure it does not contain copyright violations and to pay publishers for the privilege of showing previews of web content.
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FRA Reviews National Uses of EU “Bill of Rights”
April 22, 2019
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has released a series of country-by-country reviews examining how each EU member state has used the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in an effort by the FRA to promote the document, which includes social and economic rights, as a “Bill of Rights” for Europe.
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EU Institutions Agree to Bolster Authority of Financial Supervisors
April 22, 2019
In another step toward EU officials’ goal of forming a centrally governed Capital Markets Union, the European Parliament and EU governments have broadly agreed on the reinforcement of powers of the finance-focused European Supervisory Agencies that “keeps pace with further integration” of the eurozone.
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