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EU Official Calls for UK to Stay in Bloc's Customs Union
March 28, 2018
The Guardian reports that the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan from Ireland, has called on the British government to drop its opposition to remaining in a customs union with the EU after Brexit, asserting that such a concession would be the only way for a successful resolution of negotiations over Britain's border with Ireland.
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Cleppe: EU Cannot Justify Rigidity in Trade Talks with UK
March 27, 2018
Pieter Cleppe of the think tank Open Europe argues that EU officials are responding to reasonable proposals from UK Prime Minister Theresa May on opening up specific sectors to the EU in a broad, post-Brexit free-trade deal with a "rigidity" that cannot be justified given the EU's relative flexibility in trade arrangements with countries like Switzerland.
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ECJ: Poland Violated EU Rules on Air Pollution
March 27, 2018
The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) recently held that the Polish government is violating EU law by failing to reduce the presence of toxins in the air to a level in compliance with the bloc's rules and found that the Polish plan to reduce air pollution did not meet the country's obligations to limit pollutants within the shortest possible period.
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May Calls for Ambitious Trade Deal with EU
March 27, 2018
In a recent speech in London, UK Prime Minister Theresa May called for the agreement of a free-trade deal between Britain and the EU "covering more sectors and co-operating more fully” than any other trade deal across the globe.
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Rutte Dismisses Federalized Future for Post-Brexit EU
March 27, 2018
Offering his vision for how the EU should move forward without the UK after Brexit, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte asserted that the supranational bloc is not "an unstoppable train speeding towards federalism" and called for the EU budget to shrink due to the departure of one of its main contributors.
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