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EU Moves Toward Centralization of Wage Policies
April 16, 2018
Deutsche Welle reports that negotiators for EU member states recently agreed a set of broad principles underlying the centralization of policy for posted workers in the EU, proposing reforms that would generally require equality in wages between workers temporarily working in a country and workers who permanently reside in that country.
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EU Council Outlines Roadmap Toward Military Cooperation
April 13, 2018
In March, the Council of the EU adopted an implementation roadmap for the EU's Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) agreement, a deal among 25 EU member states through which they will implement military cooperation as one of the initial steps toward the EU's planned Defence Union.
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ECJ Strikes Czech-Dutch Arbitration Deal
April 12, 2018
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has invalidated an investor arbitration agreement between the Netherlands and Slovakia originating in 1991 because it purports to remove from the EU court system issues that involve the interpretation of EU law.
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Barnier: UK Must Not "Regress" from EU Standards
April 11, 2018
The European Commission's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has called for the inclusion in any post-Brexit UK-EU deal of a "non-regression" clause that would require the UK to permanently maintain EU standards in areas such as the environment, tax, and employment.
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UK Lawmaker Sets out Basis for EU Customs Union Exit
April 10, 2018
UK Member of Parliament Craig Mackinlay writes that accepting a customs union with the EU would "lead to a total loss of international trade policy" for Britain and calls for reliance on World Trade Organization rules rather than compliance with EU common market regulations as the best way to regain sovereignty and trade on the world stage.